UNIT 1

What do you understand the phenomena of fluidization?

Explain contacting scheme with gas fluidized bed in cross current.

What is the disadvantage of fluidized bed for industrial operations?

What is the liquid like behavior of fluidized beds?

Describe operating principle for stable circulation between two beds

What is the advantage of fluidized bed for industrial operations?

Explain liquid like behavior in countercurrent.

What is the contacting scheme with solid circulating between two beds?

Explain spouted beds.

Describe various type of contacting of a batch of solids by fluid.

Explain fluidization quality.

What is the difference between particulately fluidized beds and homogeneously fluidized
beds?

Explain contracting modes for gas solid reactor of fluidized bed.

Describe circulating fluidized beds.

Draw the difference type of liquid like behavior of gas fluidized beds.
UNIT 2

Explain characterization of particle.

Explain fast fluidization with sketch diagram.

Explain fixed bed characterization of one size of particle.

Describe the sintering and agglomeration of particle at high temperature.

Explain wide size distribution of particle with mention increasing velocity and decreasing

Explain fixed bed characterization of solid with a distribution of sizes.

Explain Geldart classification of particles.

What do you understand of transition from smooth o bubbling fluidization?

Explain pressure drop versus velocity diagram.

Explain pneumatic transport of solids.

Explain the effect of pressure and temperature on fluidization behavior.

Describe the terminal velocity of particles, UT.

Explain turbulent and churning fluidization.

Explain Voidage diagram for all solid carryover regimes.

Define the minimum fluidizing velocity, UMF

UNIT 3

1) Write the bubbling bed behaviour.

2) Explain Davis and Taylor equation.
3) Write the postulate for Davidson model.
4) Draw the curve for representing the pressure distribution for Davidson model.
5) Explain the cloudless bubble

6) Explain Clouded bubble.

7) Write the expression for flow rate of gas into and out of a bubble.
8) Explain Cloud thickness.
9) Explain gas through flow in bubbles.
10) Explain the model for evaluation of gas flow at bubbles

11) Explain the wake region and the movement of solids at bubbles.
12) Draw the appropriate sketch for showing the entrainment of solids by a rising bubble.
13) Explain solids within bubbles.
14) Explain the interaction of two adjacent bubbles.
15) Explain coalescence, bubble size and bubble frequency

16) Explain the spliting of bubbles and maximum bubble size.

17) Write the expression for low gas flow rate.
18) Write the expression for high gas flow rate.
19) Explain porous plate distributor.
20) Estimate the size of bubbles forming the following distributors in a bed
where, Uo = 15 cm/s and Umf = 1 cm/s.
(a) Porous Plate (b) Perforated plate with a triangular array of orifice having a 2 cm
pitch
21) Explain Slug Flow.
22) Define maximum bubble size.
23) Define Dense fluidized bed.
24) Explain davidson model.
25) Explain pressure distribution in bubbles
UNIT 4

Explain emulsion movement for small (Geldart B) and fine (Geldart A) particles.

Explain bubble rise velocity.

Describes of bubbles and emulsion in Geldart A bed of FCC catalyst at U0= 0.33m/s.

Explain emulsion movement for large (Geldart D) particle.

Define the bubble size correlations.

Explain physical models: scale up and scale down.

Explain flow models for bubbling beds.

Describe the K-L model with its Davidson bubbles and Wakes.

Describe the effect of temperature on bed properties in bubbling fluidized beds.

What do you understand by gas flow in the emulsion phase? Explain,

Describe the emulsion gas flow and voidage.

Describe the effect of pressure on bed properties in bubbling fluidized beds.

What is the bubble gas flow? Explain,

Discuss the general interrelationship among bed properties and the simple two phase
model.

Define the bubble rise velocity for slow bubbles and fast bubbles.
UNIT 5

1) What is Two - Phase model.

2) Explain bubble rise velocity.
3) Explain K - L model.
4) Explain interrelationship of bed properties.
5) Explain Geldart A solids

6) Write the equation for rise velocity of bubbles.

7) Define emulsion.
8) What is superficial rise velocity.
9) Write the equation for fraction of bed in bubbles.
10) Write the equation for fraction of bed in emulsion.

11) Draw the appropriate sketch of K - L bubbling bed model.

12) What is Geldart B solids.
13) Write the equation for downflow velocity of emulsion solids.
14) Write the equation for rise velosity of emulsion gas through the bed.
15) What is emulsification.

16) Explain superficial velocity.

17) Explain Geldart A and B particals.
18) What is fraction of bed in bubbles, write equations.
19) Define single two phase model.
20) Explain downflow velocity of emulsion solid.

21}Write inter-corelation among bed properties.

22) Explain Kunii and Levenspiel model.
23) Define downflow velocity of emulsion solid.
24) What is fraction of bed in bubbles, write equations.
25) Discuss emulsification process in detail.
UNIT 6

1) Define turbulent fluidized bed.

2) Draw the appropriate sketch of fast fluidized bed.
3) Draw the appropriate sketch for idealized solid circulation.

4) Write the three modes of fast fluidized circulation.

5) Explain fraction of solids in lower dense region.
6) Explain lateral distribution of solids.

7) Explain the freeboard entrainment model for fast fluidization.

8) Write the design considerations in fast fluidization.
9) Explain the modes of decay constant.

10) Explain flow pattern in fluidized bed.

11) Explain fluidized circulation mode.
12) Define fast fluidized bed

13) Explain pressure drop in turbulent bed.

14) What is fraction of solid at reactor exit.
15) Write the properties of fluidized bed.