CEMEX’s strategy of digitalization includes the use of Barracuda Virtual Reactor and other tools based on digital design twins to deploy novel technologies in the market, bringing the cement sector into the next digitalization level.
In this talk, synergistic approach leveraging Altair’s DEM and CFD solutions in partnership with CPFD Software is presented. Examples are shown for systems dominated by particle interactions, pure fluid dynamics, and coupled multiphase systems.
Introduction Figure 1: Cement Manufacturing Process (Courtesy of Aixprocess, Barracuda Users Conference 2019) Figure 2: Preheater Tower Flow Diagram (Courtesy of Aixprocess, Barracuda Users Conference 2019) Dating…
This post shows how to start a Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation from an Initial Condition (IC_*) file. It is possible to do many interesting and useful things that are not…
This post shows how to restart simulations in Barracuda Virtual Reactor. When running Virtual Reactor simulations, there are several situations when a simulation may need to be restarted: The simulation…
There are times when a Flow BC will not be perfectly aligned with the three major axes. In order to place the Flow BC correctly, direction vectors can be used…
This article examines the current trends in fluidization that have come about due to the newfound focus on sustainable applications, and how the role of computation tools used by those pursuing the applications is changing as well.
This paper uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to create a model of a fluidized bed reactor with carbon nanotube particles, which describes hydrodynamic behaviors such as bed expansion and solid holdup distribution.
This paper, which uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation results, demonstrates that solar-driven biomass gasification, using solar-heated particles as a heat carrier and a fluidized bed reactor, enhances green H2-enriched syngas production by improving heat transfer and gasification kinetics, thereby enabling continuous and stable operation despite fluctuating solar flux.
Despite more than 100 years of commercialization of wide-ranging fluidized bed reactors, scale-up tools and methods have remained quite similar. To exploit the benefits of fluidized beds for the time-critical sustainability challenges, scale-up has to be implemented quicker and better.