Experimental research on the fluidized characteristics of four magnetic particles with different average diameters(from 213 μm to 512 μm) was carried out in this study.The effects of such factors as intensity of the magnetic field and diameter of the particles,on the stable zone in the magnetically fluidized bed were investigated and discussed.Based on the experiments,by using the dimensionless analysis method,an experimental correlation to calculate the stable zone with three dimensionless numbers,i.e. the ratio of magnetic potential to gravity potential E_r,Archimedes number Ar and Reynolds number Re,was proposed.In addition,the level of significance of the correlation was tested,and the results showed that the most significant factor to influence the stable fluidization zone was E_r,and Ar was the second,while Re was the least significant factor.
To determine and calculate the stable fluidization zone in a magnetically fluidized bed, the fluidization characteristics of magnetic particles are investigated. Four kinds of magnetic particles with different average diameters, ranging from 231 to 512 μm, are fluidized in the presence of magnetic fields with specified values of the intensity in the range of zero to 7330 A/m, and the particle fluidization curves are plotted. For marking the stable fluidization zone in the curves, the minimum bubbling velocities of particles are measured by the pressure-drop fluctuation. Based on the fluidization curves, the influences of the average particle diameter and magnetic field intensity on the zone are analyzed and discussed. A correlation to determine the stable fluidization zone is derived from the experimental data, using three dimensionless numbers, i. e., the ratio of magnetic potential to gravity potential, the Reynolds number and the Archimedes number. Compared with available data reported, it is shown that the correlation is more simplified to predict relative parameters for the bed operating in the state of stable fluidization under reasonable conditions.
