Abstract: A chamber for the treatment of particulate matter in a fluidized bed, e.g. at elevated temperatures, comprises an apertured bottom for the admission of carrier gas into the overlying space. The latter is divided by upstanding partitions into at least one medial compartment and at least two additional compartments adjoining the at least one medial compartment at the opposite sides of the latter. The apparatus further comprises a duct of substantially triangular cross-section with a horizontal base and an upwardly sloping side walls located in the at least one medial compartment, with the side walls of the duct extending in directions parallel to the partitions, and the base of the duct being imperforate and resting on the wall of the chamber and preventing the entry of the carrier gas into the at least one medial compartment from below; and a nozzle arrangement in each of the upwardly sloping side walls of the duct.

Abstract: In a method for decreasing the heat, impulse and material exchange in the direct vicinity of the walls of fluidized bed reactors, the flow resistance to the fluid (agitating medium) conducted through the fluidized bed will be increased in the vicinity of the walls to such an extent that the fluidized bed does not do much agitating in this region; moreover the components sticking out of the interior walls of the reactor serve to extend the rib-shapes from the wall projecting into the reaction space or parallel to the reactor wall while forming a slit with the latter. The components can be pre-fabricated segments and the distance of the annular components in the direction of flow of the fluid should at most be about half as great as the height of the ribs lateral thereto.