Thanks to all who joined us in Chicago and online!
Venue
The Users’ Conference was held at the W Chicago – Lakeshore hotel, immediately following the PSRI Annual Meeting.
Events
- Wednesday night reception sponsored by Mark III Systems and NVIDIA.
- Thursday evening dinner with networking, bocce, other games, and Italian cuisine at Pinstripes.
Schedule
Wednesday, June 29
| 3-5:20 pm | Registration, Welcome and Conference Kick-Off |
| 5:30 pm | Reception sponsored by Mark III Systems and NVIDIA |
Thursday, June 30
| 8:30 am-5 pm | Presentations by Virtual Reactor User Community |
| 6-9 pm | Reception at Pinstripes provided by CPFD |
Friday, July 1
| 8 am – Noon | Meetings with CPFD Software by appointment |
Speakers
CPFD Software was honored to have confirmed speakers from Mark III Systems, NVIDIA, Tronox, Encina, Technip Energies, Tecplot, PSRI, Haldor Topsøe, IFP Energies Nouvelles, TU Denmark, University of Birmingham, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, and Microsoft Azure. See the full list of speakers and their presentation titles below.
Partners & Sponsors
CPFD is grateful to our partners and sponsors! Thanks to:
Schedule of Speakers
Wednesday, June 29
| Peter Blaser, CPFD | Welcome | ||
| Sibashis Banerjee, Tronox | Entrainment Reduction: Modeling and Plant Results | Watch playback | |
| Andy Lin, Mark III Systems | Making Multi-GPU Simulation Accessible to All with DGX A100 Appliances | Watch playback | |
| Sibashis Banerjee, Tronox | NVIDIA DGX Station A100 Benchmarks and Customer Experience | ||
| Sam Clark and Peter Blaser, CPFD Software | NVIDIA DGX Station A100 Demonstration |
Thursday, June 30
| Frederik Zafiryadis, Technical University of Denmark, Haldor Topsøe | CPFD Simulation of Pilot-Scale CFB Riser for Cracking of Sugar to Glycolaldehyde and other Oxygenates: Coupling Hydrodynamics and Reaction Kinetics | Watch playback | |
| Raj Singh, Technip Energies | Optimizing FCC Riser Termination Device Design and Performance Using Barracuda | Watch playback | |
| Sina Tebianian, IFP Energies Nouvelles | Pressurized Gas-Solid Feeder for Biomass Injection into Gas-Solid Fixed and Fluidized Beds | Watch playback | |
| Kit Windows-Yule, University of Birmingham, Recycling Technologies | Combining Barracuda Modelling and Cutting-Edge Positron Imaging of Gas-Fluidised Beds: Toward the Design Optimization of Novel Plastic Recycling Technologies | Watch playback | |
| Song Wang, Encina | Fluidized Bed Reactor Application for Catalytic Pyrolysis of Waste Plastic | Watch playback | |
| Ray Cocco and Wyatt Casey LaMarche, PSRI | Realistic Models Require Realistic Boundary Conditions | Watch playback | |
| Uendo Lee, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology | Strategies to Improve 3D Simulation Accuracy using 1D Simulation for CFB Boilers | Watch playback | |
| Martin Weng, aixprocess | A First-Ever Innovative Brown-Field Modification in Conservative Cement Industry – De-Risked by Smart Simulation | Watch playback | |
| James Parker, CPFD Software | CPFD Software R&D Update | Watch playback | |
| Reynaldo Gomez, NVIDIA | The Benefits of NVIDIA for Barracuda Virtual Reactor | Watch playback | |
| Ahmed Taha, Microsoft Azure | Scaling Performance of Barracuda Virtual Reactor on Azure | Watch playback | |
| Scott Fowler, Tecplot | Advanced Analysis with Tecplot 360 | Watch playback | |
| Sam Clark, CPFD Software | Barracuda Virtual Reactor: Product, Training, and Support Updates | Watch playback |