“…In particular, the superficial fluidizing velocity at incipient fluidization has been examined to establish the dependence of the minimum fluidizing velocity, U,,,,, on temperature. Most of the works along this line are referred to in the studies by Desai et al (1977), Saxena and Vogel (1977), Pattipati and Wen (1981), and Botterill et al (1982). A number of correlations have been developed and have been assessed on the basis of available U,,,, data by Babu et al ( I 978).…”