Modern society depends upon reliable energy availability and the next generation deserves a clean, sustainable future. Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation enables cleaner and more efficient power generation applications with maximized uptime. Whether the fuel is coal, biomass, refuse-derived, petroleum coke (petcoke), or other alternative fuels, and whether or not gasification is incorporated into the process, CPFD’s software and services ensure maximum efficiency from existing power generation platforms, while also speeding the research, development, commercialization, and scale-up of next-generation technologies.
Sample power generation application areas include:
Central to these applications are gas-particle systems including fluidized beds (circulating fluidized beds / CFBs and bubbling fluidized beds / BFBs), pneumatic conveyance systems, spray systems, and other fluid-particle processes. Barracuda Virtual Reactor has become the industry standard tool for troubleshooting, scaling, and reducing the environmental impact of power generation plants around the world. Our clients utilize Virtual Reactor simulation to:
Erosion in a CFB Combustor
Barracuda is a robust solution for modeling multiphase particle/gas flows, allowing densities up to the particle packing limit, and greater flexibility to include multiple particle materials, size distributions, and chemical…
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CFD Simulation of Flue Gas Desulfurization
Researchers from BYU utilized CPFD to present a novel analysis of woody biomass and coal particle mixing inside a classifier.
The study presents profile measurements and Barracuda simulations of gas emissions, temperature and pressure in a CFBC test rig firing two different bituminous coals.
In this paper a CPFD model for dry flue gas desulfurization (DFGD) systems was developed, validated against lab-scale data, and applied to an industrial-scale unit.
In this paper presented at CFB-11, a team from Babcok & Wilcox Power Generation Group report on Barracuda simulations of a large capacity, pantleg CFB boiler.
In this paper a CPFD model is combined with ECT measurements to investigate the hydrodynamic behavior in a CFB boiler with six cyclones.
This study by researchers at the Hamburg University of Technology and Tsinghua University investigated the applicability of CPFD for simulating flows in CFB risers for Geldart group A and B particles for low and high solids fluxes.
This paper, by authors at CPFD Software and Biomasse Italia, describes the optimization of a CFB boiler in order to minimize erosion considering overall performance.
This article presents a Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation of combusting gas and particle flow within the Duisburg 250 MW CFBC chamber.