Daily Archives: May 31, 2013

Scale-up of bubbling fluidized bed reactors with vertical internals: A new approach accounting for chemistry and hydrodynamics.

The full set of scaling law derived by Glicksman allows the hydrodynamic scale-up of fluidized bed reactors, but a new scale-up approach is proposed and tested that helps to avoid the dilemma in the case of catalytic reactors, where changing the catalyst particle diameter during scale-up may have consequences for the catalyst activity, selectivity and deactivation behavior.

Integration of High Level CFD Process Simulation for Development of Fluidised Bed Biomass Gasification

This paper illustrates how using CFD such as Barracuda Virtual Reactor in the development phase of fluidized beds can help avoid costly mistakes, reduce time requirements, and increase the quality of the resulting process.