PSRI – Operator Training October 17-19, 2023

Course Objectives

• Learn how fluidized bed, risers and cyclones operate
• Learn about steady state and start up operations for fluidized processes
• Learn how to troubleshoot common issues with fluidized processes

Course Material

• Fluidization concepts
• Particle size distributions measurements and interpolations
• Gas sparger and grid designs, operations, and troubleshooting
• Cyclone design, operations and troubleshooting
• Fluidized bed design, operations and troubleshooting
• Circulating fluidized bed design, operations and troubleshooting
• Start ups and shutdowns
• Entrainment predictions and exceptions to those predictions
• Sampling methods
• Managing particle attrition

Course Methodology

• Material based on 45 years of practices
• Instructors have more than 20 years of industrial experience
• Hands on experiences on industrially relevant experiences
• Troubleshooting practices with direct applications to commercial scale units