Journal
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
Volume 313, Issue -, Pages 1335-1345Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2016.11.023
Keywords
Fluidization; Magnetofluidization; Magnetic stabilization; Interparticle forces; Rheology; Magnetorheological fluids
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- Andalusian Government [FQM-5735]
- Spanish Goverment Agency Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [CTQ201452763-C2-2-R, FIS2014-54539-P]
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Fluidized beds of granular materials can be stabilized by interparticle attractive forces which confer the expanded bed an elastic modulus that stabilizes it against flow perturbations. Stabilization in a structure of enduring contacts is seen to occur naturally due to the universal van der Waals forces for similar to 50 mu m particle size beds albeit in a quite reduced interval of gas velocities over the minimum fluidization velocity (v)mf. As shown in this work, a magnetic field may induce attractive forces between magnetizable particles thus extending the stable fluidization interval well beyond vmf. The structure of the magnetically stabilized bed is however markedly anisotropic since attractive magnetic forces are maximum along the direction of the externally imposed field which leads to the formation of chain particle aggregates. This paper shows experimental measurements on the magnetic yield stress, gas velocity at the transition to marginal stability and microstructure of magnetostabilized beds as affected by the direction of the magnetic field. Data shows that magnetic stabilization is optimized for co-flow fields as chain aggregates are preferentially orientated parallel to the magnetic field and along the direction of minimum drag. As the magnetic field is tilted, particle chains become tilted according to a balance between the magnetic attractive force between the particles and the vertical drag force, which reduces the magnetic yield stress and therefore shortens the interval of magnetic stabilization. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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