Penetration characteristics of fly ash suspended in gas flowing through a fixed packed bed of granular materials were determined experimentally. Gas velocities through the 0.4m thick bed of 5-16mm diameter particles ranged from 0.5-2.0m/s. Experiments were also performed in a moving packed bed in which the accumlation of fly ash was measured. These experimental results were compared with that of prediction by employing data from the fixed packed bed tests. It was observed that calculated values of both the amount of dust accumulated and penetration in the moving bed agreed well with measured values when an appropriate correction factor was introduced.