Fluidized beds with interal screens. II. Study in a cylindrical reactor

A fluidized bed reactor with several horizontal tube screens was studied. The number of tubes in a row, the number of rows, and the height to the bottom of the screen were varied. The conversion increase for the chemical reaction of butanol and ammonia was used as a criterion to develop several correlations between screen efficiency and the above variables. The application of the results for the design of fluidized beds with internal screens is also given.