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1 Department of Chemical Engineering, Hamedan University of Technology, P.O. Box: 65155-579, Hamedan, Iran

2 Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, P.O. Box: 11155, Tehran, Iran

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The effect of the solid–wall boundary condition on the segregation behavior of a sand ternary mixture differing in size but having the same proportion has been investigated in a gas–solid bubbling fluidized bed. A multi-fluid computational fluid dynamics model incorporating the kinetic theory of granular flow has been used. The mass fraction profiles of the different-sized particles along the bed height have been experimentally measured by 'freeze–sieving' method. The simulation results of mass fraction distribution and segregation index have been compared against our experimental data in order to evaluate solid–wall boundary conditions in terms of specularity and particle-wall restitution coefficients. The analysis indicates that, the specularity coefficients in range 0.5 to 0.9 lead to the satisfactory results and the best agreement is obtained for =0.9 which corresponds to partial–slip wall boundary condition while the particle–wall restitution coefficient has only a negligible effect on the results. Also maximum segregation index occurs at specularity coefficient of 0.9 at which the segregation pattern may be affected by simultaneous mechanisms of particles circulation and bubbles rising. The effects of superficial gas velocity on the segregation behavior in bubbling regime have also been studied and a significant reduction in segregation index has been observed with increasing gas velocity from 1.1Umf to 1.3Umf.

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