Nowadays, the units with a fluidized bed hold a special place among all heat-mass transfer plants currently used in industry. First of all, it is due to the highly developed surface of interaction between the fluidizing agent (air) and dispersed materials in such units, their low hydraulic resistance, relatively simple design and small sizes. At the same time, the units with a centrifugal fluidized bed, which is formed in an annular channel of the working chamber when a fluidizing agent is added under the fixed angle, are of particular interest. Currently, a limited number of experimental and theoretical studies of hydrodynamics and heat-mass transfer in a fluidized bed are known. Besides, these studies were carried out mainly in respect to regenerative heat exchangers and absorbers. In this regard, such studies in respect to the devices for other purposes, such as dryers, seem to be relevant. The results of these studies are the scientific backgrpund for development of an engineering calculation methodology of such units and their design. The study has been carried out based on an experimental plant using means for measuring temperature, relative air humidity, differential pressure, air velocity, and moisture content of solids. A TPM 148 PID controller has been used as a secondary device. Experimental data have been recorded in MasterSCADA SCADA system. Data processing has been carried out using interpolation by cubic splines. The article describes in detail an experimental plant that allows carrying out a full factor experiment to study the hydrodynamic and thermal parameters of a convective dryer with a centrifugal fluidized bed. The article presents the results of a preliminary series of experiments in which silica gel is used as a dispersed material. As a result of visual observations over the dispersed material in the working chamber, the values of the minimum and maximum speed of the drying agent have been determined. The grafic relationship of the hydraulic resistance of the working chamber and the height of the material layer are obtained depending on the speed of the drying agent and the mass of the material, as well as the temperature and moisture content of the material and the drying agent depending on the drying time. The results obtained make it possible to determine the design and operational parameters of the centrifugal fluidized bed drying plant and select a fan to supply the drying agent.

The paper deals with studying a dynamic stability of the wing model in the ram airflow. As known, at a certain flow rate that is called critical, there is a phenomenon of self-excited non-damping flexural-torsional self-vibrations, named flutter. A two-mode elastic system wing model is under consideration, as is common in the literature in the field concerned. The paper continues and develops investigations of well-known scientists in this field, such as V.L. Biderman, S.P. Strelkov, Ya.G. Panovko, I. I. Gubanova, E.P. Grossman, J.Ts. Funen, etc. A great deal of papers dedicated to this problem and published by abovementioned and other scientists, give only the problem formulation and the derivation of equations, often in a fairly simplified form, do not offer solutions of these equations for specific numerical parameters of the wing model, and do not study how these parameters affect the flutter onset velocity.The paper details the derivation of linear differential equations of small vibrations of the wing model in the flow, determines the natural frequencies and shapes of flexural-torsional vibrations, checks their orthogonality, studies vibrations under the influence of aerodynamic force and moment, determines the critical flow velocity for a number of system parameters, and draws a conclusion about the influence of these parameters on the critical velocity. In particular, it studies how such a parameter as the distance between the center of gravity and the center of stiffness affects the critical velocity, as well as how the stiffness of the model's spring suspension, which simulates the stiffness characteristics of the wing impacts on bending and torsion. The calculation results allow us to draw conclusion concerning the methods of dealing with this phenomenon. One of the promising options may be, in addition to varying the geometric and rigid parameters of the system, the introduction of additional mass to be an analogue of the vibration damper. The paper may be of interest both for engineering students who learn the theory of mechanical vibrations, and for engineering-specialists in aero-elasticity and dynamic stability of elements in mechanical systems.

The experience of many years of experience in developing and utilization of ground fault protection in the stator winding of generators in the Siberian networks is generalized. The main method of protection is to apply a direct current or an alternating current with a frequency of 25 Hz to the primary circuits of the stator. A direct current is applied to turbogenerators operating in a unit with a transformer without a resistive coupling to the external grid or to other generators. Applying a 25 Hz control current is appropriate for power generation systems with compensation of a capacitive short circuit current to ground. This method forms the basis for protection of generators operating on busbars, hydroelectric generators with a neutral grounded through an arc-suppression reactor, including in consolidated units with generators operating in parallel on a single low-voltage transformer winding.

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