The spouted bed technique has been applied to the operations bringing fluids into contact with solid particles which are too coarse to fluidize. It was recognized that the spouted bed might be applicable to the dryer of the unhulled rice.
This paper presents the available data for designing of the spouted bed, using unhulled rice as solid materials and air as spouting medium, as follows:
(1) The desirable operations in the spouted bed in practice were obtained under the conditions;
Di/Dc=1/5-1/4,
Lo/Dc=2-3. In this paper, pressure drop and air flow rate were discussed under these conditions, where
Di was the diameter of air inlet,
Dc the diameter of spouted column, and
Lo the height of the bed at the fixed state.
(2) Δ
Pm/Loγb depended not upon
Do/Dc but upon
Di/Dc, where Δ
Pm was the maximum pressure drop in the spouted column and γ
b was the bulk specific-weight of the bed at fixed state.
(3) Δ
Pm/Loγb had any value ranging from 1.3 to 2.0. Here,
Loγb corresponds to the pressure drop in the fluidized bed.
(4)
Gm/Gmf had any value ranging from 0.8 to 0.9. Here
Gm is the air mass-velocity at the maximum pressure drop in the spouted column and
Gmf is the minimum air mass-velocity required for fluidization.
(5) Δ
Ps/Loγb had any value ranging from 0.5 to 0.8. Here Δ
Ps is the spouting pressure drop.
(6)
Gs/Gmf had the value about 1.5. Here,
Gs, a new concept presented in this paper, is minimum air mass-velocity for steady spouting.
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