Thank you again to all who made our Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference a huge success! On this page you will find the PDFs of several of the presentations from the conference and the Advanced Training Workshops. Curious to see what the activities for the conference were and who else presented? Click here for the 2019 Users’ Conference Program and Agenda.
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Conference Presentations
| Welcome | ||
| Peter Blaser CPFD Software |
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Peter Blaser gives a welcome and overview of the Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2019. |
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| Computational Modeling in FCC Design and Troubleshooting | ||
| Raj Singh TechnipFMC |
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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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| Advances in Barracuda Simulations of TRI Steam Reformer | ||
| Ravi Chandran, PhD ThermoChem Recovery International |
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Selected results from studies of steam reforming and validation with Barracuda are presented. |
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| Barracuda Modeling of Oil Sand Transport, Hydraulic Fracturing and Biomass Conversion in the Energy Industry |
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| Kuochen Tsai, PhD Shell |
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Erosion aspects of oil sand transport and their challenges are discussed. |
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| Modeling of a Vortexing Circulating Fluidized Bed (VCFB) for Process Intensification | ||
| Justin Weber US Departing of Energy, NETL |
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This presentation discusses process intensification for coal gasifier reactors as well as the modeling of a vortexing circulating fluidized bed. |
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| Usage of Barracuda Virtual Reactor in the Cement Industry | ||
| Adlan Omer aixprocess GmbH |
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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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| Comparision of CFD Models in Predicting Fluidized Behavior in Geldart B Particles | ||
| Sina Tebianian, PhD IFP Energies Nouvelles |
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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. |
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| FCC Stripper/Standpipe Case Study – Off-Design Performance for Low Fines Catalyst | ||
| Peter Loezos, PhD and Bryan Tomsula CPFD Software |
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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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| Three Dimensional Full-Loop Simulation of Cold Gas-Solid Flow in Pilot-Scale Dual Fluidized Bed System |
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| Frederik Zafiryadis Haldor Topsoe / Technical University of Denmark |
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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. |
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| 1D and 3D Numerical Simulations of a 100kWth Coal CFB Combustor | ||
| Youngdoo Kim University of Science & Technology, Korea |
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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. |
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| CPFD 2.0 | ||
| Rajat Barua CPFD Software |
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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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| How PSRI Streamlines our Work Process using Barracuda Virtual Reactor | ||
| Ray Cocco, PhD Particulate Solid Research, Inc. |
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This presentation discusses how PSRI uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor modeling to support and expand their experimental efforts and vice versa. |
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| CFD Model Optimization for Simulation of Segregation in a Fluidized Bed of Particles with Different Sizes and Densities |
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| Alex Kokourine Hatch |
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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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| Reduced Chemical Mechanism for Chemical Looping Combustion System | ||
| Hong-Shig Shim, PhD Reaction Engineering International |
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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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| Acceleration of Stiff Chemistry Through TensorFlow and Machine Learning | ||
| Dirk Van Essendelft, PhD US Department of Energy, NETL |
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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. |
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| Development Update: What’s New and What’s Coming | ||
| James Parker, PhD CPFD Software |
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James Parker, CTO at CPFD Software, gives an update on Barracuda Virtual Reactor development and plans for the future. |
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| Introducing Tecplot for Barracuda | ||
| Scott Fowler Tecplot |
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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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| NVIDIA GPUs: What and Why | ||
| Reynaldo Gomez NVIDIA |
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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. |
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Advanced Training
| Recent Features, Output Analysis and Current Best Practices Part 1 | ||
| Bryan Tomsula CPFD Software |
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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. |
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| Recent Features, Output Analysis and Current Best Practices Part 2 | ||
| Ali Akhavan, PhD CPFD Software |
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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. |
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| Practical Deployment: Hardware, Operating Systems and Other Considerations | ||
| Sam Clark CPFD Software |
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Review of current hardware recommendations, possible operating system compatibility issues, and cloud computing options. |
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