Ideal for chemical and mechanical engineers in research and industry, this up-to-date unified book deals with spouted and spout-fluid beds.

Preface; Common nomenclature; 1. Introduction N. Epstein and J. Grace; 2. Initiation of spouting X. Bi; 3. Empirical and analytical hydrodynamics N. Epstein; 4. Computational fluid dynamic modeling of spouted beds X. Bao, W. Du and J. Xu; 5. Conical spouted beds M. Olazar, J. Bilbao and M. J. San José; 6. Hydrodynamics of spout-fluid beds W. Zhong, B. Jin, M. Zhang and R. Xiao; 7. Spouted and spout-fluid beds with draft tubes M. H. Morgan, III, H. Littman, Z. B. Grbav¿i¿ and J. D. Paccione; 8. Particle mixing and segregation G. Rovero and N. Piccinini; 9. Heat and mass transfer A. Kmiec and S. Englart; 10. Powder-particle spouted beds T. Ishikura and H. Nagashima; 11. Drying of particulate solids M. L. Passos, E. F. Costa, Jr and A. S. Mujumdar; 12. Drying of solutions, slurries and pastes J. T. Freire, M. C. Ferreira and F. B. Freire; 13. Granulation and particle coating S. C. S. Rocha and O. P. Taranto; 14. The Wurster coater J. Seville, S. Palmer and A. Ingram; 15. Gasification, pyrolysis and combustion A. P. Watkinson and A. Lisboa; 16. Spouted bed electrochemical reactors J. W. Evans and V. Ji¿i¿ný; 17. Scale-up, slot-rectangular and multiple spouting J. Grace and C. J. Lim; 18. Mechanical spouting T. Szentmarjay, E. Pillai and Judit Tóth; 19. Catalytic reactors and their modeling G. Rovero and N. Piccinini; 20. Liquid and liquid-gas spouting Z. B. Grbav¿i¿, H. Littman and M. H. Morgan, III; Index.