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Arun S. Mujumdar
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McCill University, Montreal, Canada
Published online: 17 Apr 2007.

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BOOK REVIEW

FLUIDIZATION ENGINEERING
2nd Edition
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Daizo Kunii and Octave Levenspiel

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1990, 490 pp.

Reviewed by

Arun S. Mujumdar
McCill University, Montreal, Canada

This is the long-awaited and long-overdue edition of the classic book: Fluidization
Eneineerine published first in 1965. The authors have made an eminently admirable job of
distilling the thousands of published studies in the field of gas fluidization and presenting
i t in a highly readable - often tutorial - form. The authors correctly point out in their
Preface that: "This hook does not cover all that is happening in fluidization. Our aim is to
' . ' from the thousands of studies of those developments that are pertinent to the engineer
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concerned with predictive methods, for the designer, and for the user of fluidized beds."
The authors' strong concern for emphasis on utility is the reason they use the word
"Engineering" in the title.

While this hook is clearly not encyclopedic - indeed a number of topics of ohvious
engineering interest :ire omitted - it will serve a variety of readership profiles. Different
readers will find different parts of it of interest. The book could serve as a main o r
supplementary texthook for use in different engineering disciplines e.g. chemical, mining,
metallurgical etc. This book deals with gas-particle contacting only. Liquid fluidization and
three-phase fluidization are omitted. No mention is made of modified fluidized beds such
as spouted beds, spout-fluidized beds, vibrated beds, pulsed beds, stirred beds etc.
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The book covers all important aspects of gas fluidized beds starting with application
areas, hydrodynamics, mixing, heat transfer, mass transfer, gas dispersion, residence time
distributions, circulation systems and design of catalytical and noncatalyticai systems. These
topics are covered logically in 18 chapters. Over 60 illustrative problems are includr-'.
making this an ideal text for a graduate level course on Fluidization or a short course for
professionals. It is excellent for those embarking on R & D in this area. The examples are
chosen carefully to demonstrate application of the principles developed.
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This hook is highly readable. The publisher must be commended for putting it in a
remarkably attractive format albeit at a correspondingly high price. It is hoped that a
student edition will be available at a textbook price for use in academic courses. It is a .
highly recommended acquisition not only for engineering libraries - academic as well as
industrial - hut also for personal libraries of those who deal with fluidized beds regularly.

It is hard to find any serious fault or weakness in the book; it delivers what the
authors set about 16 do. Personally I would have liked to see sgme treatment of the
modified fluidized beds which are of growing industrial interest. Drying in fluidized beds
is covered although only in passing.