Inaugural Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2015

Users’ Conference Day 1 Presentations

Peter Blaser presents a brief history of Barracuda VR as well as a description of the focus of the Inaugural Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2015.

The commercial CFD code, Barracuda, has the potential to be a useful tool for modelling fluidized bed polymerization reactors to make engineering decisions. Barracuda Virtual Reactor was utilized in this study to provide fundamental insight into the system behaviours in three-phase fluidized bed reactors.

This presentation reviews FLSmidth’s efforts to compare CPFD model predictions with measurements on lab-scale and full-scale equipment.

This work presents how Barracuda has been used at The Dow Chemical Company to investigate the effect of gas properties and process conditions on the hydrodynamics in process-scale fluidized bed reactors.

Users’ Conference Day 2 Presentations

Dr. O’Rourke traces the history of the MP‐PIC method from its origins in spray modeling to recent modifications that include sub‐models for important particle‐particle effects. MP‐PIC is compared with other methodologies for simulating dense particulate two‐phase flows.

The presentation focuses on some of the key milestones achieved in successfully modeling reacting, dense particle flows with Barracuda Virtual Reactor as well as the challenges encountered in CFD simulation. Experience with validation studies based on experiments in small- and large-scale units is also discussed.

In this presentation, Dr. Parker highlights ongoing work to develop and improve drag force correlations used to model the fluidization of real particle systems.

KiOR is a world leader in the race to develop and commercialize a Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) process for producing transportation fuels from biomass.  The presentation reports KiOR’s progress and learnings to date and shares some pointers about quality of lab experiments and future plans. 

Tony Jones presents where Barracuda VR software is today and what’s next.

Users’ Conference Day 3 Presentations

PSRI’s presentation discusses validation with relevant experimental data as an important and necessary process with any modeling effort for applications with scale up.

A presentation of pilot-scale facilities at the University of Utah and the integration of Barracuda simulations with with ongoing experiments.

This is part one of a two-part presentation with the overall goal of exploring how to extract key data from Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation results. In Part 1, a refining case study is presented which is further explored in Part 2 using the EnSight for Barracuda post-processing utility.

This is part two of a two-part presentation with the overall goal of exploring how to extract key data from Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation results. In Part 2, results from the Eliminating FCC Regenerator Afterburn presentation by Ray Fletcher are used to discuss using EnSight for Barracuda to extract out the key valuable data in the most efficient, effective, and informative manner.

Review advanced post-processing techniques such as using 2D plot data, using Particle Select in GMV, and working with BATCHMOVIE.sh in this presentation.

Dr. Parker presents ideas, strategies, and tips for using Barracuda VR to model fluidized systems more effectively.

This presentation highlights select new features that are now available in Barracuda VR.