Tecplot for Barracuda Training Videos
This collection of training videos will help Barracuda Virtual Reactor users get started with Tecplot for Barracuda. Some of the videos have been created by CPFD to highlight items of specific…
Tecplot for Barracuda – Launching Tecplot
This video is part of the Tecplot for Barracuda Training Videos collection. This training video shows how to launch Tecplot for Barracuda from within the Barracuda Virtual Reactor GUI. The…
Hybrid Particle Cluster CPFD Simulation in the Acceleration and Stabilized Sections of a Downflow Circulating Fluidized Bed
This study by Cesar Medina-Pedraza and Hugo de Lasa of the University of Western Ontario reports a numerical hybrid cluster CPFD simulation of a downer reactor unit.
Modelling Ensures a Successful Revamp
This article by engineers at TechnipFMC Process Technology and Suncor Energy, discusses an FCC regenerator revamp at the Suncor Edmonton refinery, aimed to incorporate advanced design features to mitigate operational challenges and improve reliability.
Design Study for Bio-Oil Production from Biomass Using a Dual Fluidized-Bed Reactor
Virtual Reactor simulations were used to evaluate the re-design and reconfiguration of a dual-fluidized bed (DFB) gasification system into a recirculating pyrolysis reactor, by researchers at NREL, UCSD, and West Biofuels, LLC.
Simulation of entrained flow gasification reactor with Multi Phase Particle in Cell (MP-PIC) approach
This paper focuses on the simulation of an entrained flow gasification reactor in Barracuda Virtual Reactor
Improved analytical energy balance model for evaluating agglomeration from a binary collision of identical wet particles
This paper presents a new model for agglomeration which provides improved predictions for particle collision outcomes
Experiments and computational particle fluid dynamics simulations of biomass gasification in an air-blown fluidized bed gasifier
Experiments were performed in a pilot-scale bubbling fluidized bed gasification reactor, and a kinetics-based model was developed simulated using Barracuda Virtual Reactor.
Computational Modeling Solving Real-Time Industrial Problems
This paper by Raj Singh, Paul Marchant, and Steve Shimoda at TechnipFMC discusses how to use Barracuda Virtual Reactor to improve spent catalyst distribution in FCC regenerators.
The visualization study of dust pollution generated during unloading of the multi-level in high ore pass based on CPFD software and similar experiments
To grasp the diffusion law of the unloading dust and reduce the amount of dust discharged, the Barracuda Virtual Reactor and similarity experiments were used to study the dust generation and diffusion principle under different unloading conditions