Using Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation has become standard industrial practice in multiple application areas and additional use cases are being discovered on a regular basis. Here are some other sample application areas uncovered by CPFD, our partners and clients:
Central to these applications are fluidized beds and other fluid-particle processes. Barracuda Virtual Reactor has become the industry standard tool for troubleshooting, scaling, and reducing the environmental impact of existing fluid-particle processes while accelerating the research, development, and deployment of newer technologies. Talk to us today to learn if Barracuda Virtual Reactor might be right for your application.
Dense-phase particle engagement into dilute-phase conveyance
Barracuda provides a unique combination of speed and capability unparalleled by other approaches. Dr. Kuochen Tsai, Shell International Exploration and Production Inc.
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MP-PIC, which is the foundation for the numerics in Barracuda Virtual Reactor, is the best numerical methodology currently available for computer simulation of the dense particulate flows in practical systems. Dr.…
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Researchers from BYU utilized CPFD to present a novel analysis of woody biomass and coal particle mixing inside a classifier.
This study by researchers at the University College of Southeast Norway and Tel-Tek investigates the applicability of the multiphase particle-in-cell (MP-PIC) method for predicting pneumatic conveying characteristics.
This study by researchers from the Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Coal Gasification investigated the applicability of the CPFD) numerical scheme for simulating flows in a 3-D hopper.
Bigda, from the Institute for Chemical Processing of Coal (IChPW), Poland, presents CPFD numerical studies of the hydrodynamics of gas-solid flow and the drying process using Barracuda Virtual Reactor.
Experimental operation of three fluidized bed processors is compared with CFD simulation results by Parker, Williams, and Thibault, CPFD Software, and LaMarche, Chen, and Stamato, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.
This paper by Kuochen Tsai, Ernesto Rafael Fonseca, Sujatha Degaleesan, and Ed Lake from Shell shows advances in the numerical simulation of proppant transport in hydraulically stimulated fractures for oil and gas production.
A new model is presented by O’Rourke, Zhao, and Snider for numerical simulations of collisional transfer of mass, momentum and energy in gas/liquid/solid fluidized beds.
In this paper by Dale M. Snider, granular flow of three granular flow experiments is predicted by a CPFD numerical scheme in three dimension using the true particle size distribution.