Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2019

Peter Blaser gives a welcome and overview of the Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2019.

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This presentation discusses the significance of CFD modeling tools to effectively screen and evaluate new ideas and design changes, which improves existing technologies as well as the development of new ideas.

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Selected results from studies of steam reforming and validation with Barracuda are presented. 

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Erosion aspects of oil sand transport and their challenges are discussed. 

This presentation discusses process intensification for coal gasifier reactors as well as the modeling of a vortexing circulating fluidized bed.

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This presentation sheds light on ways to maximize the benefits of Barracuda Virtual Reactor for users in the cement industry.

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In this presentation, two different commercial CFD tools are been compared in their ability of predicting hydrodynamic features of slugging gas-solid fluidized beds.

An example from a US Gulf Coast refiner shows how Barracuda Virtual Reactor was used to match a base-case and then model mechanical and PSD changes to increase performance.

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Hydrodynamics of catalytic cracking of sugars in a circulating fluidized bed system is investigated using a cold flow-pilot scale CFB system and modeling with Barracuda Virtual Reactor.

In this presentation, the hydrodynamics and combustion characteristics of a 100kWth CFB combustor were investigated using numerical simulation with IEA-FBC model and Barracuda Virtual Reactor.

President and CEO, Rajat Barua, gives an update on CPFD’s organizational progress including an announcement of a new office in Houston’s Energy Corridor.

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This presentation discusses how PSRI uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor modeling to support and expand their experimental efforts and vice versa.

Reported test data trends of particle segregation are compared with multiple sets of Barracuda Virtual Reactor models, to show that pertinenet modeling can reasonably predict the actual behavior of solids mixture, under a range of velocities.

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This presentation discusses the details of reducing 495 reversible elementary reactions with 93 chemical species to a reduced mechanism with 25 species, which was found to give excellent agreement with detailed chemistry with acceptable computational demands.

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C3M is available today and provides material properties and chemistry input into a variety of programs, including Barracuda Virtual Reactor. In this talk, recent research and improvements to C3M are discussed.

James Parker, CTO at CPFD Software, gives an update on Barracuda Virtual Reactor development and plans for the future.

An exciting partnership between CPFD Software and Tecplot, Inc in which all Barracuda Virtual Reactor users will be given access to Tecplot 360’s best in class post-processing is introduced.

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In this presentation, an overview of GPU vs CPU computing capabilities is provided along with an introduction to NVIDIA software stack.

Review new features including graphical selection of ICs and BCs, initial conditions from IC files, and user-defined chemical reaction rate coefficients. Post-processing example is plotting pressure profiles using transient data points.

Review new features including particle initialization, particle exit Flow BC, BC Connectors, and Raw particle data at internal flux planes.  Post-processing example is using Raw particle data from internal flux planes to calculate PSD and analyze residence time information.

Review of current hardware recommendations, possible operating system compatibility issues, and cloud computing options.