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John R. Grace
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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John M. Matsen
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Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Florham Park, USA
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Fluidized beds have gained prominence in many process in dustries (including chemicals, petroleum, metallurgy, food and pharmaceuticals) as a means of bringing particulate solids into contact with gases and/or liquids. Many fluidized bed operations are physical in nature (e.g. drying, coating, classification, granulation, and rapid heat transfer as in quenching or annealing). Other operations involve chemical reactions including the cata lytic cracking of hydrocarbons, the manufacture of acry10nitrite and phthalic anhydride, the roasting of metallurgical ores, and the regeneration of spent catalysts. In recent years fluidized beds have been of special interest because of their potential as the central component in new processes for utilizing coal as a source of energy, notably in coal combustion and gasification processes. The fluidized bed offers a number of advantages over most other methods of contacting, in particular high rates of heat transfer, temperature uniformity and solids mobility. Among the disadvantages are particle losses by entrainment, attrition of solids, limited reactor efficiency due to gas bypassing and gas and solids backmixing, and difficulties in design and scale-up due to the complexity of fluidized beds. The International Fluidization Conference held in Henniker, New Hampshire, U.S.A. from 3-8 August 1980 was the fifth inter national congress devoted to the entire field of fluidization.
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Table of contents (63 chapters)
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Refereed Research Papers
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- A. M. Xavier, D. F. King, J. F. Davidson, D. Harrison
Pages 209-216
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- N. M. Catipovic, G. N. Jovanovic, T. J. Fitzgerald, O. Levenspiel
Pages 225-234
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- R. T. Wood, M. Kuwata, F. W. Staub
Pages 235-242
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- G. V. Vunjak-Novaković, D. V. Vuković, A. Obermayer, A. Vogelpohl
Pages 253-260
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- V. R. Dhanuka, J. B. Stepanek
Pages 261-269
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- G. S. McNab, J. Bridgwater
Pages 271-278
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- M. H. Morgan III, H. Littman
Pages 287-296
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- G. Donsì, L. Massimilla, L. Colantuoni
Pages 297-304
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- Wen-ching Yang, Dale L. Keairns
Pages 305-314
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- T. M. Knowlton, I. Hirsan
Pages 315-324
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- G. N. Jovanovic, N. M. Catipovic, T. J. Fitzgerald, O. Levenspiel
Pages 325-332
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- A. B. Whitehead, O. E. Potter, H. V. Nguyen, D. C. Dent
Pages 333-340
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- I. W. Noordergraaf, A. W. M. Roes, W. P. M. van Swaaij
Pages 341-348
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- D. G. Kroger, G. Abdelnour, E. K. Levy, J. C. Chen
Pages 349-356
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- M. Ishida, A. Nishiwaki, T. Shirai
Pages 357-364
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- Yong Jin, Zhiqing Yu, Zhang Li, Zhanwen Wang
Pages 365-372
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- A. W. Nienow, D. J. Cheesman
Pages 373-380
Editors and Affiliations
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University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
John R. Grace
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Exxon Research and Engineering Company, Florham Park, USA
John M. Matsen