Much that is new and exciting has developed in the field of fluidization since the publication of this book’s first edition-new insights, new understandings, and new predictive methods. In particular, the field is seeing systematic studies of the freeboard region above the dense bed, of high-velocity fine-particle fluidization, and of large-particle system. As a result, today the term fluidization tasks on broader meaning, and experts are developing new, ...
