6. A vertically held packed bed has a height of \( 1 \mathrm{~m} \), and a void fraction of 0.1 , when there is no flow through the bed. The incipient fluidization is set in by injection of a fluid of density \( 1 \mathrm{~kg} / \mathrm{m}^{3} \). The particle density of the solids is \( 3000 \mathrm{~kg} / \mathrm{m}^{3} \). Acceleration due to gravity is \( 9.81 \mathrm{~m} / \mathrm{s}^{2} \). The pressure drop (in \( \mathrm{Pa} \) ) across the height of the bed is
\( 26478 \mathrm{~Pa} \) (round off to nearest integer). |21