Journal
PARTICUOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue -, Pages 48-57Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.partic.2018.03.010
Keywords
Empirical correlation; Artificial neural network; Average cycle time; Conical spouted bed; Draft tubes; Modeling
Funding
- Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government [CTQ2016-75535-R]
- University of the Basque Country [UPV/EHU 2017]
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport [FPU14/05814]
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Conventional spouted beds have been extensively used in many real-life applications but are not suited for all types of materials, especially fine particles, which require internal devices to improve their motion in the spouted bed. However, unlike conventional spouted beds, there are almost no mechanistic or empirical models available for the design of spouted beds with internals. Given the availability of an extensive but not experimentally designed database, the main purpose of this study is to present an analysis of neural networks and empirical models in terms of their suitability to fit and predict average cycle times in conical spouted beds with and without draft tubes. The parameters investigated are particle size, density, contactor angle, gas inlet diameter, static bed height, and draft tube features. Although the amount of information is always a key factor when fitting models, the size of the database used in this study strongly affects the fitting performance of empirical models, whereas artificial neural networks are more influenced by how the data are scaled. Results of model verification show that both techniques are suitable for predicting average cycle times for data outside the range covered by the database. (C) 2018 Chinese Society of Particuology and Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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