Effect of Polymer Granules on the Electrostatic Behavior

Addition of large polymer granules to a fluidized bed containing particles of the same chemical composition, but different sizes, had no discernable effect on the electrostatic level, other than a ...

Design and Limitations in Polymer Cracking Fluidized Beds …

In fluidized beds, the products are produced by two types of cracking; primary cracking of the molten polymer that takes place in the dense bed of the reactor, and the secondary and ternary reactions involving the primary volatiles that occur inside the bed and partially along the freeboard [15], [16]. The interaction between the polymers …

Journal of Applied Polymer Science | Wiley Online Library

The fluidized-bed model developed in this work is based on a steady-state model, incorporating interactions between separate bubble, emulsion gas phase, and emulsion solid polymer particles. The model is capable not only of computing temperature and concentration gradients for bubble and emulsion phases, calculating polymer …

Thermal degradation of poly (methyl methacrylate) polymers: Kinetics

The key part of the plant was the fluidized bed, which was made up of sus-304. It was heated indirectly by an electric heater. The PMMA entered the reactor directly into the sand that was used as the bed material, with the help of two screw feeders, after which it was pyrolyzed. There were three thermocouples in the reactor.

Fluidized bed reactor for polyethylene production. The …

FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR FOR POLYMER PRODUCTION. The fluidized bed reactor has an unique physical design (Figure 1). Gas and polymer. particles flow in opposite directions. The gas is fed at the base ...

Condensed Mode Cooling of Ethylene Polymerization in …

Condensed Mode Cooling of Ethylene Polymerisation in Fluidised Bed Reactors. Timothy F.L. McKenna. C2P2 UMR 5265, Université de Lyon, Bâtiment ESCPE, 43 Blvd du 11 Novembre 1918, 69616 Villeurbanne, France. TOC.

Understanding Fluidized Bed Powder Coating

Rector: One of the upsides to fluidized bed coating is the fact that virtually transfer efficiency is obtained. Powder either melts to the part or remains in the fluidized bed. The downside is in the charging of …

Review article A comprehensive review of fluidized …

Fluidized bed drying (FBD) is considered one of the most appealing technologies for producing uniformly dried materials in a faster way. Conventional FBD …

Desorption of VOCs from polymer adsorbent in …

tion process in multis tage fluidized bed desorber include: (1)Gas. fl owing through eachstage of the desorber is in plug flow; (2)adsorbent. particle s in each stag e of the deso rber are f ...

Encapsulation: Fluidized bed coating technology

Latex polymer: Bottom—spray fluidized bed coating: Film forming to control release: Fukumori et al. (1988b) Lactose: Hydroxypropyl cellulose: Methacrylic acid-ethyl acrylate copolymer: Aerosol fluidized bed coating: Film forming to control release: Ichikawa et al. (1993) Phenacetin: Triacetin: Pseudo latex Polymer: Aerosol fluidized bed coating

Understanding Fluidized Bed Powder Coating

Understanding Fluidized Bed Powder Coating. For more than 50 years, fluidized beds have been used to coat parts with powder …

Polymerization Process Intensification Using …

Gas phase olefin polymerizations are now widely achieved in fluidized bed reactors. In fluidized bed reactors, small catalyst particles are introduced into the …

Desorption of VOC from polymer adsorbent in multistage fluidized bed …

Adsorption and Desorption of Volatile Organic Compounds in Fluidized Bed. Waël Yazbek P. Pré A. Delebarre. Environmental Science, Chemistry. 2006. A model of adsorption and thermal desorption was built and validated from experiments performed under various operating conditions. The abatement increased with the reduction in the …

Tribo-charging and electrostatic separation of vehicle polymer

After tribo-charging in the fluidized bed, different polymer particles carried charges of different polarities (positive, negative) or are neutral. Initial separation is carried out in the first-stage electrostatic separation chamber, and the positively charged particles move toward the negative electrode plate under the action of electric ...

Fluidized bed pyrolysis of waste polymer composites for oil …

Abstract: The feedstock recycling of composite polymer materials by pyrolysis is of increasing importance, as landfilling and combustion become more expensive and the acceptance of these methods is decreasing. Polymer composites are produced mainly from oil and have high potential as hydrocarbon sources. Fluidized bed pyrolysis has turned …

Feasibility study of degradation of phenol in a fluidized bed

This work is focused on the evaluation of a β-cyclodextrin polymer as a carrier medium in a fluidized bed bioreactor treating aqueous phenol as a model pollutant. The insoluble polymer support was obtained in the shape of spherical beads by crosslinking β-cyclodextrin with epichlorohydrin. A batch of swollen polymer particles …

Fluidized bed pyrolysis of a recycled polyethylene

A possible sequence of steps that a plastic polymer undergoes during the fluidized bed pyrolysis is schematically reported in Fig. 2 on the basis of a series of batchwise experiments, carried out as described above. Just after the injection into the hot fluidized bed, a very fast heat transfer mechanism leads the polymer pellet external …

Dynamic Modeling and Analysis of Process Constraints for …

The steady-state results showed that at the actual fluidization conditions of the investigated FBR more than 90% of polymer is generated in the emulsion phase. Moreover, the emulsion phase was shown to occupy approximately 90% of the fluidized bed of this reactor . These phenomena occur because the investigated FBR is running at …

Hydrodynamic phenomena during the drying of polymer

Hydrodynamic phenomena during the drying of polymer materials in a vibrating fluidized bed. Investigation and Calculation of Thermophysical Processes ... E. B. Shmidel', et al. "Method of monitoring the hydrodynamic parameters of an inhomogenous fluidized bed using a capacitive probe and MIG-1 gas analyzers," in Automation of Chemical ...

Simulation of biomass-plastic co-gasification in a fluidized bed

The syngas produced from the fluidized bed steam gasification comes out of high temperature zone, so it will work at temperatures above 250–350 °C necessary for the production of dioxins. ... [31] for co-gasifying waste polymers and wood. The author reported a maximum gasification efficiency of 90%, with 30–40% plastic fraction in the ...

Fluidized bed film coating of cohesive Geldart group C …

Polymer film coating at an individual particle level is achieved on these pre-coated fine powders in a commercially available spouting fluidized bed (MiniGlatt). The effect of operating conditions such as inlet air temperature, polymer concentration, polymer weight ratio, water percentage in solvent and spray rate of coating solution on the ...

Thermal Cleaning

Fluidized bed cleaning system for fast and complete removal of ALL plastics including halogenated polymers and paints. Quick turnaround; ... Polymers are removed in a single process, then inorganic remnants are removed using a select posttreatment method (high water pressure or ultrasonic cleaner). SCHWING cleaning systems eliminate the risk of ...

Bipolar charging of poly-disperse polymer powders in fluidized beds

It is well known that many common industrial powder handling operations such as pneumatic transport, mixing, and fluidization may produce a net charge on the powder particles. However, it is less well known that the net charge is often the result of a bipolar charge distribution in which the smaller particles acquire charges of a polarity …

Fluidized bed pyrolysis of waste polymer composites for oil …

The polymer is totally colourless. Another highlight of pyrolysis is the production of great amounts of oil in melting vessel plants and fluidized bed processes. Polyolefins and polystyrene also in composite materials are particularly suitable feedstocks for this process. The oil can account for up to 97% of the feed.

Polymerization Process Intensification Using Circulating Fluidized Bed

4.2.1 Introduction. This section is an extension of Gidaspow's patent relating to fluidized bed polymerization reactors [], such as the UNIPOL reactor, or the later reactors containing cooling tubes.It shows that the polymer production rate can be increased by two or more orders of magnitude over that obtained in the UNIPOL reactor …

The fluidized bed reactor with a prepolymerization system …

The results indicate that the use of prepolymerized catalyst particles results in milder temperatures in the fluidized bed reactor, thus avoiding the formation of hot spots, melting of the polymer ...

Heat transfer effect in scaling-up a fluidized bed reactor for

Polymer particles can melt and stick together to form bigger particles or fuse into a sheet or large chunk because the temperature in the reactor is greater than the melting point of the polymer. The fluidized bed operation can then approach a de-fluidized regime.

Polymerization Process Intensification Using …

Polymerization Process Intensification Using Circulating Fluidized Bed and Rotating Fluidized Bed Systems. Hamid Arastoopour, Dimitri Gidaspow, and Robert W. …

Some recent advances in fluidized-bed …

The fluidized-bed polymerization process has been in use for decades. From the manufacturer's perspective it is desirable to improve technology without major …

Plasma Processes and Polymers

Plasma Processes and Polymers is a plasma journal focusing on the interdisciplinary field of low temperature plasma science. Abstract The plasma catalytic valorization of gases, particularly CH4 and CO2, has gained increasing attention. ... Experimentally, fluidized bed yields lower pressure drop compared to PB, ...

Waste-to-Energy: Fluidized Bed Technology | SpringerLink

The term "fluidized bed" obviously refers to fluid dynamics in an intensively mixed system of solid particles and gas flow which keeps the particles in dynamic movement. Different systems can be described according to observation of the technical behavior as "bubbling," "turbulent," or "circulating" fluidized bed.

ChE 473A Chemical Engineering Laboratory

Bed porosity in state of minimum fluidization = 0.40 Particles diameter = 250 µm Density of polymer = 954 kg/rn3 Column diameter = 0.469 ft Information on Geldart's …