Also available on Youtube.
About This Presentation
Presented by
Bruce Adkins of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in collaboration with NETL at the 2024 Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference.
Summary
Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) is a promising technology for producing fungible transportation fuels from biomass in BFCC units. The biogenic coke that deposits on the catalyst is chemically different from petroleum derived coke, and unit designers must take the differences into account. The Consortium for Computational Physics and Chemistry (CCPC) has been investigating the combustion of biogenic coke on ZSM-5 based catalysts and has developed kinetics to model industrial scale regenerators. This presentation covers kinetics model development using COMSOL and lab scale experiments, and reactor scale modeling in Barracuda Virtual Reactor.
About the Speaker
Dr. Adkins has broad experience in the fuels and chemicals industry spanning four decades. He has worked for two refining catalyst companies in roles ranging from R&D to Commercial Technical Service. He has also worked in coal conversion and biofuels companies on catalyst development, process research and reactor design. He has extensive experience in testing, modeling and scaleup. Dr. Adkins has been part of ORNL and the Consortium for Computational Physics and Chemistry since November 2018.