Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation is enabling, and reducing the time to market for, multiple sustainability technologies that are literally changing our planet for the better. Whether the process involves chemical recycling / advanced recycling (where contaminated plastics can be infinitely reused as feedstock for processes which re-create the very building blocks for new plastics or other chemicals), waste-to-energy / fuels / chemicals (where other waste streams are harnessed as raw materials), capturing carbon streams, reducing emissions, or creating the raw materials needed for solar panels, CPFD’s simulation technology is a driver for positive change.
Sample clean technologies and renewables application areas include:
Central to these applications, and many others, are fluidized bed reactors and other fluid-particle systems. Barracuda Virtual Reactor has become the industry standard tool for researching, developing, and rapidly deploying new green sustainability and renewable technologies. Our clients utilize Virtual Reactor simulation to:
Virtual Reactor Enables Novel Waste-to-Fuels Process
CFD Model for the Simulation of Chemical Looping Combustion
Simulation vs Experiment for Cold Flow Carbon Capture Unit
Applying Virtual Reactor to Advanced / Chemical Recycling Applications
This thesis by Christopher McIntyre from the University of Ottawa explores the use of CPFD modeling related to pressurized chemical looping combustion.
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.
This simulation study the University of Western Ontario demonstrates the scalability of chemical looping combustion (CLC) to achieve efficient capture of biomass-derived CO2.
Virtual Reactor simulation of a biomass pyrolysis reactor, by Kokourine and Adham at Hatch, verifies that plug-flow with internal-recirculation (PFIR) can be achieved under reasonable operating conditions.
In this study by the University of Utah, Barracuda simulations for a chemical looping with oxygen uncoupling system compared well with literature and data.
In this paper, Clark, Snider, and Spenik compare cold-flow experimental results with Barracuda simulation for a full-loop CFB experimental carbon capture unit constructed at the US DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).