Transcript Flyer Salatino

ICB seminar series 2016/17
chairman: Prof. Dr. Andrew deMello
MIXING AND SEGREGATION IN
FLUIDIZED BED CONVERTERS
Prof. Dr. Piero Salatino
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
ETH Hönggerberg, 01/03/2017
HCI J 7, 17.00 h
The Seminar will be followed by an Apéro
Abstract.
Fluidized bed converters display a long record of success stories as environments where
harsh thermochemical conversion processes may be conveniently carried out, like those implying
pronounced thermicity and/or problematic interphase mass and heat transfer. Despite widespread
diffusion of fluidized bed converters, there are still many open fundamental, design and operational
issues related to segregation and mixing of solid and gas phases in fluidized beds and effectiveness of
multiphase contacting patterns. The common claim of fluidized beds being well stirred/well controlled
environments for heterogeneous and gas-phase reactions falls short in some cases, as when fluidized
beds are applied to thermochemical conversion of high-volatile solid fuels. The lecture aims at
presenting selected illustrations of fundamental phenomena affecting mixing/segregation of phases in
fluidized beds, their relevance to thermochemical processing of solids and to proper control of
heterogeneous and gas-phase reaction pathways, the rationale of measures to counteract segregation
phenomena.
Speaker highlights.
Piero Salatino is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Dipartimento di
Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale of Università degli Studi di Napoli
Federico II. He holds a MSc in Chemical Engineering, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering received
from Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in 1987. He is currently Chairman of the School of
Polytechnic and Basic Sciences of this university, after holding the Chair of the Faculty of Engineering
and the Direction of the Combustion Research Institute of the National Research Council of Italy. Piero
Salatino is an active researcher in the fields of chemical reaction engineering, combustion, powder and
particle processing, bioprocess engineering since 1982. Selected scientific appointments include
membership of editorial boards of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, Powder Technology,
Fuel Processing Technology.
D CHAB
Department of Chemistry and
Applied Biosciences