Foundry sand reclamation by the gas-contact process

Context and motivation -- Objectives -- Organization of the thesis -- Review of the thermal methods of foundry sand reclamation -- Thermal reclamation of foundry sand -- Comparison of the thermal methods of foundry sand reclamation -- Literature review -- Gas-solid vertical flow regimes -- Particle dynamics and dilute fluidized solid flow -- Heat transfer in gas-solid flow -- Particle combustion -- Modeling of the two-phase flow system -- Theoretical approach -- Theoretical analysis -- Heat transfer rate limitation models -- Heat transfer rate and resing combustion process limitation models -- Experimental installation and data acquisition -- Gas-solid installation -- Gas flow measurements -- Solid flow measurement -- Temperature measurement -- Measurement of resin conversion -- Physical properties of gas and solid -- Experimental results, discussion and comparison with modeling results -- Experimental results -- Comparison of experimental and modeling results.