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💨 To make flow 🔄 To make flexible
to fluidize

to fluidize

1 8.3
To make powder or sand move like a liquid by passing air through it
  • verb
  • /ˈfluːɪdaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fluidificar
  • The engineer used air to fluidize the solid particles in the chamber, allowing them to flow like a liquid.
  • fluidized bed
  • fluidized-bed boiler
  • fluidized bed combustion

Examples

  • The constantly renewed surface of the fluidized bed provides a greater surface area for treatment than tubes alone would.

    Academic text (1996)

  • Fluidized bed combustion and gasification are preferred over fixed bed designs due to many inherent advantages.

    Academic text (2018)

  • CFD simulation of fluidized bed gasification

    Academic text (2018)

  • In either case, the low operating temperature of fluidized-bed boilers means that effectively no thermal nitrogen oxides are formed.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The remaining wastewater passes into fixed film reactors called "ecological fluidized beds."

    Academic text (1996)

  • Advanced PFBC combines the best features of partial coal gasification and fluidized-bed combustion.

    Academic text (1994)

  • As an experimentalist, he developed new techniques to study combustion dynamics and fluid dynamics in fluidized beds, an increasingly important combustion technology.

    Academic text (2002)

  • The system includes a pressurized circulating fluidized-bed gasifier, a gas turbine, and a steam turbine.

    Academic text (1997)

  • To improve the mixing process, they needed to fluidize the materials in the reactor by introducing steam.

  • By fluidizing the powders with gas, they achieved better uniformity during the chemical reaction.

How Fluidized

to fluidize
  • Specialized
1 8.3
to suspend
  • Specialized
10 6.5
to loosen
15 2.8

Surface Forms

fluidize infinitive
fluidized past
fluidized past participle
fluidizing present participle
fluidizes third person singular

Morphology

fluidize = fluid (transparent) = fluid + ize

Directly means 'to make into/like a fluid' (technical usage of causing a solid to behave like a fluid), so the derivation is literal and clear.

Etymology

Fluidize comes from fluid meaning 'flow' and the suffix -ize meaning 'make'. In science and industry, to fluidize a solid is to make it act like a liquid by pumping air or water through it so the grains start to 'flow'.