Fluid Bed Technology in Materials Processing comprehensively covers the various aspects of fluidization engineering and presents an elaborate examination of the applications in a multitude of materials processing techniques. A separate chapter outlines the importance of fluidization engineering in high temperature processing, including an analysis of the fundamental concepts and applications of high temperature fluidized bed furnaces for several advanced materials processing techniques. This book 1) analyzes, for the first time, fluidization in nuclear engineering and nuclear fuel cycle, 2) evaluates new and advanced type fluidized beds in materials processing, bioengineering, and downstream processing, 3) introduces the fundamental principles and applications of fluidization engineering, 4) discusses design aspects and modeling, incorporating distributor effects and flow regimes, 5) presents a spectrum of industrial applications with examples in extraction and process metallurgy, 6) describes high temperature advanced fluidized bed reactors. TOC:Introduction. Properties of Particles and the Granular Bed. Grouping of Gas Fluidization. Hydrodynamics of Two Phase Fluidization. Flow Phenomena. Three Phase Fluidization. Heat Transfer. Mass Transfer. End Zones. References.