RELATIONSHIPS OF MOISTURE REMOVAL FROM A BED OF PARTICULATE MATERIAL UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF VIBRATIONS.

In order to examine the possibility of practical application of the above theory to solution of such technological problems, the authors carried out an experimental study of moisture transfer in a vibrofluidized bed. The results are used for correlation of the theoretical principles and the derived relationships with experimental data. A laboratory assembly in which the vibration parameters of the perforated partition could be varied over a wide range with batch feeding of the material to the working member was used in the investigations. The solid component was unclassified sea sand, with transformer oil as the liquid component. The agreement obtained between the calculated results and experimental data is evidence in favor of the chosen mathematical results that the coefficient of stochastic moisture transfer increases with increasing vibration intensity.