An overview of advances in understanding electrostatic charge buildup in gas-solid fluidized beds

Electrostatic charging of particles in gas-solid fluidized beds often results in operational complications in commercial processes. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the advances from the last decade in three key areas, namely the fundamental understanding of triboelectric charging, methods to measure particle charge, and experiments to elucidate particle charging processes in fluidized beds. This review underscores the need for better understanding the mechanisms of triboelectric charging in granular systems, effective online charge monitoring techniques, and experiments under industrially relevant conditions to better comprehend the problems in commercial reactors that can enable strategies to mitigate charging. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.