Thermo-Hydrodynamic Design of Fluidized Bed Combustors: Estimating Metal Wastage is a unique
volume that finds that the most sensitive parameters affecting metal wastage are superficial
fluidizing velocity particle diameter and particle sphericity. Gross consistencies between
disparate data sources using different techniques were found when the erosion rates are
compared on the same basis using the concept of renormalization. The simplified mechanistic
models and correlations when validated can be used to renormalize any experimental data so
they can be compared on a consistent basis using a master equation.
