State-of-the-art review of fluidized bed stripper internals
This publication summarizes studies available in the open literature on fluidized bed strippers as applied to the FCC and fluid coker unit operations.
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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.
Experimental and Numerical Research on Chemical Looping Gasification of Coal Char in a Pressured Fluidized Bed Reactor
Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulations and experiments were used to study the gasification of Erdos bituminous coal char with Fe2O3/Al2O3 under the pressure of 0.1-0.5 MPa
MP-PIC Simulation of Biomass Steam Gasification Using Ilmenite as an Oxygen Carrier
For a better understanding of this process, biomass steam gasification using ilmenite as an oxygen carrier is numerically investigated in this work using Barracuda Virtual Reactor, which is a modified Euler–Lagrange approach.
Artificial Intelligence for Hybrid Modeling in Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC)
This study reports a novel hybrid model using Barracuda Virtual Reactor and AI for the prediction of six critical process variables of importance in an industrial-scale FCC
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
Computational modeling of high pressure bubbling fluidized bed hydrodynamics using ilmenite particles
In this publication, a model for a high pressure fluidized bed was created using Barracuda Virtual Reactor® and validated against previously obtained experimental data
Modelling and simulations of bubbling fluidized bed and entrained flow biomass gasification reactors
This thesis contains the experimental results for a cold flow model for bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) and a pilot scale BFB gasifier.
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.