Particle dynamics in the fluidized bed : magnetic particle tracking and discrete particle modelling

First published in
AIP conference proceedings  
Number in series
1542, issue 1
Start Page
1098
End Page
1101
Citation
AIP Conference Proceedings (1542): 1098-1101 (2013)
Contribution to Conference
7th International Conference on Micromechanics of Granular Media 2013  
Publisher DOI
10.1063/1.4812127
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84880706429
Publisher
American Institute of Physics
In this contribution, the particle dynamics and the granular flow in a lab-scaled rotor granulator system (fluid bed rotor processor) are investigated on the scale of individual particles. The numerical approach is based on a Discrete Element Method (DEM) coupled with three-dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) for the gas phase. In this work a novel non-intrusive particle tracking technique, the Magnetic Particle Tracking (MPT) has been used to study the complex granular flow in rotor granulators. The technique allows a simultaneously and non-intrusivedescription of the translational as well as the rotational movement of a tracer particle in dense granular flow. The focus is on the analysis of the particle rotation behaviour at different process conditions. © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.
Subjects
fluid bed rotor processor
prtickle tracking
granular flow
granulation
DEM-CFD
DDC Class
530: Physik