TY - JOUR IS - 20 N2 - The gas-solid mixing pattern in a fluidized bed is significantly affected by distributor plates. In order to study this impact, two different distributer plates orifice arrangement, namely, triangular and radial (TDP and RDP) are designed. The solid circulation patterns caused by each orifice arrangements are then predicted numerically. To this end, Eulerian-Eulerian (EE) approach through Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) is utilized. As a final point, the simulated particle volume fraction, particle velocity and bed pressure drop are compared. It was found that the distribution of solid volume fraction is more homogeneous while TDP was used. The regular pattern of radial particle velocity was also found for TDP. These indicate that particle motion mainly concentrates in the region between the core and the wall of the bed. However, chaotic solid motion at the core region was observed for RDP. ©2006-2016 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN). ID - scholars7786 Y1 - 2016/// UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84994204384&partnerID=40&md5=429bbc3467ee4aa69b2ecb8b52ff4be7 JF - ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences A1 - Afrooz, I.E. A1 - Sinnathambi, C.M. A1 - Karuppanan, S. A1 - Ching, D.L.C. VL - 11 AV - none N1 - cited By 12 TI - CFD simulation of bubbling fluidized bed: Effect of distributor plate orifice pattern configuration on hydrodynamics of gas-solid mixing SP - 11954 SN - 18196608 PB - Asian Research Publishing Network EP - 11959 ER -