State-of-the-art review of fluidized bed stripper internals
In this publication, typical commercial stripper operating problems are pointed out, and methods to diagnose the problems are identified
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100 years of scaling up fluidized bed and circulating fluidized bed reactors
This paper discusses how the landscape of fluidization technology has evolved over the last century
Development of Enabling Technologies for a Pressurized Dry Feed Oxy-Coal Reactor
Researchers at Brigham Young University completed this 5-year research program with the main objective to build and test a 100 kWth pressurized dry-feed oxy-coal combustor
The visualization study of dust pollution generated during unloading of the multi-level in high ore pass based on CPFD software and similar experiments
To grasp the diffusion law of the unloading dust and reduce the amount of dust discharged, the Barracuda Virtual Reactor and similarity experiments were used to study the dust generation and diffusion principle under different unloading conditions
CFD simulation for characterization and scale-up of pulsed biomass transport
In this paper, the applicability of the MP-PIC method to model a biomass injector is investigated, and the effects on a system’s hydrodynamics of changing model inputs are discussed
The Role of GPU Computing in the Commercialization and Scale-Up of Fluidized Bed Conversion Processes
This paper explores how advances in GPU and multi-GPU computing have impacted 3D, transient simulations of fluidized bed conversion processes, resulting in simulations running up to 400x faster using GPUs in a single workstation compared with CPU-only performance.
Multiphase particle-in-cell simulation study of sorption enhanced steam methane reforming process in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor
The advantages of the MP-PIC method can be seen in this paper, where researchers use it to analyze the full hydrodynamics and thermochemistry of a fluidized bed reactor for a sorption enhanced steam methane reforming process.
Study on effect of gas distributor in fluidized bed reactors by hydrodynamics-reaction-coupled simulations
In order to analyze the effects that maldistribution of gas can have on FCC regenerator performance, researchers from China University of Petroleum conducted simulations using Barracuda Virtual Reactor.
MP-PIC simulation of circulating fluidized beds using an EMMS based drag model for Geldart B particles
In this study the multiphase particle-in-cell (MP-PIC) method is used for the simulation of two pilot-scale circulating fluidized beds (CFBs) with quartz sand belonging to Geldart’s group B as bed material
Numerical simulation of optimization, comparison, and selection of cyclone inlet transformation methods
Sinoma International Engineering uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to analyze the different ways of reducing the resistance in cyclones