Air Lift, part 1: Determination of parameters of solid Particles Moving in the Air Lift Tank

摘要

One of the mostly used vertical pneumatic conveying systems is the air lift. The paper deals with the mathematical-physical model for describing the important physical parameters of the air lift. By applying the continuity and the momentum equations written on the control volume we got differential equations. The equations have been solved using the Runge-Kutta method. Diagrams - pressure, solid and air velocity, and concentration - obtained as a result of these solutions give a presentation on the basis of a given example.