and the void fraction of the bed were plotted against the corresponding Reynolds number, as shown in Figure 4. Only the data of studies in which surface temperatures were measured directly were utilized and include jh values for packed, expanded, and distended beds. No experimental heat transfer factors are presently available for fluidized beds. Again considerable scatter is noted at low Reynolds numbers, due to backmixing effects. The deviations of the in values reported by De Acetis and Thodos (3) can be attributed to the significant conduction and radiation effects which were not accounted for in that study. !The best relationship, which is limited to the region N R s > 20 for which substantial experimental data are available, may be expressed analytically as follows:The thermal conductivity of liquids numerical values, the largest and the coefficients are sufficiently sensitive to composed of nonionized molecules smallest known values differing by less the magnitude of the thermal conduccovers a comparatively small range of than a factor of 10. Yet heat transfer tivity (which is very difficult to meas-*The very similar relation X = (6.96 k/o*18) ( AEV/M where u = liquid volume/molecule, AEv = enerp of vaporizahon, has been derived from a solid Ike model of the liquid state by Altenburg (1).