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Gas velocities at which transition occurred from bubbling to turbulent fluidization were determined by the measurement of pressure fluctuations at va rious axial positions in a 0.108m i.d., 5.76m high expanded-top fluidized bed . By the method of statistical analysis, mean amplitude of pressure fluctuations were used to determine the transition velocity from bubbling to turbulent flow regimes. On the other hand, the effects of different flow regimes on bed wall heat transfer coefficients were also determined. The results showed tha t Uc and Uk could be obtained by the method of relative pressure fluctuations, but only Uc obtained by the method of absolute pressure fluctuations. Further more, Uk would disappear when the distance between two pressure probes of rel ative pressure fluctuations was far enough. So Uk was not the artifactby the m ethod of relative pressure fluctuations, but really the onset point ofturbulen t fluidization. For the heat transfer, the results showed that when the superf icial gas velocity increased beyond Uk, the bed-wall heat transfercoefficient would increase again for Geldart A or B particles in a dense-phase part of the bed and would be gradually leveling-off for both kinds of particles in a lean -phase part of the bed.
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