摘要 |
<p>A composition of stabilized fluidized media, said media comprising a fluid passing upwardly through a normally nonfluidized mass of solid particulate material including a plurality of separate discrete magnetizable particles, at a rate sufficient to fluidize said mass, said mass being subjected to an applied magnetic field which is oriented with a substantial vertical component and is preferably uniform. The strength of the magnetic field and its deviation from a vertical orientation are maintained so as to prevent formation of bubbles in the fluidized media at a given fluid flow rate and with a selected fluidized particles makeup. With these media, fluid throughput rates which are up to 10 to 20 or more times the flow rate of said fluid at incipient fluidization in the absence of the applied magnetic field are achieved, concomitant with the absence of bubbles.</p> |