3. Research work

As we said in the previous paragraph, fluidization technology in the transported and circulating regime is still in full development. Just look at the list of publications, conferences and workshops held in recent years (cf. ) to see the interest in this technique on the part of both industry and academic research. And yet, processes such as catalytic petroleum cracking (FCC) and coal combustion (CFL power plants) have become classics. However, given the high stakes involved in these processes, which we will discuss later, CFLs continue to attract interest. What's more, a number of other processes employing the dense (bubbling) fluidization technique rightly inspire a move towards CFLs. This makes it even more attractive to understand the phenomena governing the flow structure of CFLs, and to study the problems associated with ancillary devices such as loaded cyclones,...