Many commercial fluidized bed reactors have large inventories, small particles and are full of internals such as heat exchange pipes or cyclone dip-legs; they are operated at high superficial velocities (up to hundred times the minimum fluidization velocity), high pressures and temperatures and are fluidized from nozzles in a plate or from rings. These features make direct scale-up from labotatory scale to commercial scale very risky.
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