.~ Including passing, treating or conveying gas into or through particulate work {3}
15
.~.~ Including maintenance of fluidized bed
DEFINITION
Classification: 432/15
(under subclass 14) Process in which the operation is such that the work particles are so suspended in the gaseous current that the mixture of the gas and particles act like a liquid in forming a surface level, in flowing, and in supporting by buoyancy.
SEE OR SEARCH CLASS
34, Drying and Gas or Vapor Contact With Solids,
359, for a drying process or a residual process of contacting Solids with a gas involving fluidization of the solid material.
201, Distillation: Processes, Thermolytic,
31, for a process of heating carbonaceous material in a fluidized bed for distillation.
502, Catalyst, Solid Sorbent, or Support Therefor: Product or Process of Making, for a composition comprising a catalyst or sorbent, per se, and see especially 20+, for processes of regenerating such a composition which may use a fluidized suspension of particles in a gas.
