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This webinar on Barracuda Virtual Reactor 25.0, to be hosted by CPFD on April 30, 2025, provides overview of new features and enhancements including new and improved Wall Impact models, location user-defined expressions, and more.

CPFD Software are excited to exhibit at CastExpo 2025. Join us at the event to learn how Arena-flow can assist OEMs, foundries, and tooling suppliers worldwide in minimizing scrap, cycle times, consumable usage, energy costs, carbon footprint, and new tooling startup costs in their processes.

CPFD Software is pleased to announce that Thomas Brandt has joined our team as Manager, Foundry Products and Services, to lead the Arena-flow engineering software business

Beijing Hi-key Plus Technology Co. Ltd., CPFD Software’s distributor for Barracuda Virtual Reactor in the People’s Republic of China, has announced a series of online and in-person training courses for 2025

CPFD Software’s Peter Blaser will be giving a lecture on “Simulation of Industrial-Scale Fluidized Beds and Fluid-Particle Systems” on April 24th, 2025 at PSRI’s Fluidization Seminar in Chicago

CPFD Software would like to announce dates for our Barracuda Virtual Reactor Web-based Training courses in 2025.

CPFD Software has continued its longstanding support of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers‘ Particle Technology Forum by sponsoring the PTF Student Poster Awards and congratulates 2024 winners, Ishani Karki Kudva and Seyedamin Razavi.

This webinar on Barracuda Virtual Reactor 24.1, to be hosted by CPFD on October 30, 2024, provides overview of new features and enhancements including enhanced specification of cloud resolution, thermal wall BC heat transfer resistance, and other updates.

CPFD Software announces expansion of its development team with the addition of R&D engineer Anshika Agarwal

Beijing Hi-key Technology Co. Ltd., CPFD Software’s distributor for Barracuda Virtual Reactor in the People’s Republic of China, has announced a series of online and in-person training courses for H2 2024

CPFD Software is excited to be a Silver Sponsor for the Society of Petroleum Engineers – Gulf Coast Section, CFD Group’s Annual Symposium. This year’s session is subtitled “AI Accelerated Physics Based Modelling and its Role in Energy Industry”.

CPFD is continuing its longstanding support of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual meeting by chairing a session, presenting a paper, and sponsoring the Particle Technology Forum (PTF) Student Poster Awards.

CPFD Software’s Peter Blaser will be giving a lecture on “Simulation of Industrial-Scale Fluidized Beds and Fluid-Particle Systems” on September 12th, 2024 at PSRI’s Fluidization Seminar in Chicago

CPFD Software is excited to announce that Keshav Ramchandran of Texas A&M will be joining the team as a summer intern for 2024.

Speakers have been announced for the Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2024 which will be held at the W Chicago – Lakeshore hotel, immediately following the PSRI Annual Meeting.

Sponsors have been announced for the Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2024 which will be held at the W Chicago – Lakeshore hotel, immediately following the PSRI Annual Meeting.

Beijing Hi-key Technology Co. Ltd., CPFD Software’s distributor for Barracuda Virtual Reactor in the People’s Republic of China, has announced a series of online and in-person training courses for 2024

This webinar on Barracuda Virtual Reactor 24.0, to be hosted by CPFD on May 8, 2024, provides overview of new features and enhancements including rotating and time-varying gravity, particle-to-particle thermal conduction, and SFF option to disable interpolation between rows.

CPFD Software enters into a 2-year software licensing contract with ENEA of Italy. ENEA uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation software for the simulation of a dual fluidized bed (DFB) system aimed at the modelling of several components of the EU research infrastructure ZECOMIX (Zero Emissions of Carbon with Mixed technologies).

CPFD Software’s Sam Clark will give a lecture about “Simulation of Industrial-Scale Fluidized Beds and Fluid-Particle Systems” on March 7th, 2024 at PSRI’s Fluidization Seminar in Heidelberg, Germany

CPFD Software’s Peter Blaser would gave a lecture about “Simulation of Industrial-Scale Fluidized Beds and Fluid-Particle Systems” on February 8th, 2024 at PSRI’s Fluidization Seminar in Chicago

CPFD Software will exhibit at the 2024 AMI Chemical Recycling Conference in Houston, Texas. Join us to learn Barracuda Virtual Reactor’s potential to reduce development risk while accelerating the scale-up and commercialization of advanced recycling technologies.

CPFD opens registration for the Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2024 which will be held at the W Chicago – Lakeshore hotel, immediately following the PSRI Annual Meeting.

CPFD Software has continued its longstanding support of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers‘ Particle Technology Forum by sponsoring the PTF Student Poster Awards and congratulates 2023 winners, Shota Miyake and Ashin Sunny.

CPFD Software’s Niraj Mehta has been invited to speak at Season 3 of Altair’s Tech Brew series.

Barracuda Virtual Reactor has been shortlisted in the “Digital Technology of the Year” category as part of the ERTC Industry Awards.

Dr. Peter Loezos, VP of Engineering at CPFD Software, has been invited to speak at BASF’s “Turnaround risk reduction through FCCU simulation” webinar

CPFD is continuing its longstanding support of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual meeting by chairing a session, presenting a paper, and sponsoring the Particle Technology Forum (PTF) Student Poster Awards.

CPFD Software was nominated for “Best Modeling Technology” for “Barracuda Virtual Reactor Simulation Technology for Vapor-Liquid-Solid Processes” at the Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards

CPFD Software announces expansion of its team of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) experts by adding Pramod Bangalore as a Senior CFD Engineer.

CPFD Software was nominated for “Best Modeling Technology” for “Barracuda Virtual Reactor Simulation Technology for Vapor-Liquid-Solid Processes” at the Gulf Energy Information Excellence Awards

Rescale will host a webinar alongside CPFD Software and Aerotak on Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 9:30am CDT: Increase Performance & Accelerate Barracuda Virtual Reactor Simulations in the Cloud.

CPFD Software announces expansion of its team by adding Tanner Stelmach to its growing team of experts in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications.

Dr. Peter Loezos, VP of Engineering at CPFD Software, has been invited to speak at BASF’s “Turnaround risk reduction through FCCU simulation” webinar

Peter Blaser, CPFD Software’s VP of Operations, will be speaking at the 54th Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (SCEJ) Autumn Meeting Luncheon Seminar on September 12th, 2023, in Fukuoaka, Japan, virtually.

CPFD Software is exhibiting at the 2023 ERTC in Italy

CPFD Software and the global Barracuda Virtual Reactor user’s conference was held from June 19 – 21, 2024 at Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2024 in Chicago, Illinois.

CPFD Software (Houston, TX) and Renix have entered into a software licensing agreement. By leveraging the modelling capabilities of Barracuda Virtual reactor, Renix is able to quickly develop and optimize its systems for a host of customer applications as a result.

Mr. Rajat Barua, President & CEO of CPFD Software has been invited to speak at the AWS Energy Symposium on May 17, 2023 as part of the “Leading edge, disruptive innovators across the energy industry” panel in the “High-Performance Computing for Subsurface and Energy” track.

Beijing Hi-key Technology Co. Ltd which is CPFD Software’s distributor in Republic of China is planning and organizing series of training programs to help people learn Barracuda software better, along with In-person training scheduled in Beijing during September 2023.

Dr. Peter Loezos, VP Engineering at CPFD Software has been invited to speak at BASF’s FCC Fundamentals & Optimization Seminar 2023 to discuss FCC simulation technology.

CPFD Software announces expansion of its team by adding Dr. Shashank Karra to its growing team of experts who is skilled in thermal-fluid sciences and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications.

CPFD Software has been invited to speak at Fluidization XVII on May 21-25, 2023 in Edinburgh Scotland. James Parker would present on ‘Today’s Tools in the Scale up and Optimization of Today’s Fluidized Processes’ and ‘The Development of Improved Particle Drag Force Correlations for CFD Simulation’. The work is co-authored by Ray Cocco (PSRI) and Peter Blaser (CPFD Software).

CPFD Software’s Peter Blaser would gave a lecture about “Simulation of Industrial-Scale Fluidized Beds and Fluid-Particle Systems” on Thursday, May 11, 2023 which is highly recommended for engineers and researchers working with fluidized bed and fluid-particle processes.

CPFD Software will exhibit how its Software Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation is used to troubleshoot and correct undesirable calciner and preheater behavior related to emissions, afterburn etc. while increasing reliability, uptime and alternative fuel flexibility, at 2023 IEEE-IAS/PCA Cement Conference in Dallas, Texas, April 23-27.

Niraj Mehta, Solutions Engineer at CPFD Software, will speak on “Accelerating the Energy Transition with Virtual Reactor on NVIDIA GPUs” at NVIDIA AI City Forum in Houston, Texas on March 21′ 23. The forum aims at empowering healthcare professionals to deliver personalized medical care, and equipping IT teams with powerful tools to protect against cybersecurity threats.

CPFD Software will exhibit its Software Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation’s potential to reduce development risk while accelerating the scale-up and commercialization of advanced recycling technologies at the 2023 AMI Chemical Recycling Conference in Houston, Texas in March 20-22.

This webinar introduces CPFD’s flagship software product, Barracuda Virtual Reactor which simulates the 3D, transient behavior in industrial-scale, fluid-particle systems including the multiphase hydrodynamics, heat balance and chemical reactions.

CPFD Software continued its longstanding support of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers‘ (AIChE) Particle Technology Forum (PTF) by sponsoring the PTF Student Poster Awards and congratulated Anuj Joshi, Yael Suárez, and Hailey Loehde-Woolard, winners of the 2022 Student Poster Competition.

This webinar, jointly presented by CPFD Software and Rescale, shows how just how easy and secure it can be to get up and running with Barracuda Virtual Reactor in the cloud with Rescale.

Peter Blaser, Vice President of Operations at CPFD, has been invited to speak virtually on “Powering the Impossible: Addressing our Planet’s Toughest Sustainably Challenges” at Big Compute 22 on November 9th, 2022.

CPFD Software’s joint entry with Encina Development Group, entitled “Converting Plastic Waste into Circular Chemicals” is a finalist for the 2022 Process Automation and Digitalisation Award as well as the 2022 Sustainability Award for demonstrating excellence in chemical, biochemical and process engineering.

CPFD is sponsoring the Particle Technology Forum (PTF) Student Poster Awards by continuing its longstanding support of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual meeting. Additionally, Peter Blaser, VP of Operations will be co-chairing the Fluidization: Modeling session on November 14’22 at Phoenix Convention Center.

CPFD Software announces Barracuda Virtual Reactor’s new metered licensing with new features where clients can now run multiple Barracuda cases at once regardless of the number of base licenses available.

At the 2022 AFPM Summit in San Antonio, CPFD Software will be exhibiting how Barracuda Virtual Reactor has become the standard tool for increasing the reliability and performance of FCCUs, and the latest developments for vapor/liquid/solid systems such as ebullated bed in Texas on October 18-20, 2022.

CPFD Software’s joint entry with Encina Development Group, entitled “Plastic Fluid Catalytic Cracking (PFCC) Accelerated by Virtual Reactor Simulation” is a finalist for the 2022 Sustainability Award and received this recognition for a second consecutive year for changing landscapes and providing innovative solution in reducing plastic waste and recycling hard-to-recycle plastics into circular chemicals.

James Parker, CTO at CPFD Software, has been invited to speak at the 9th World Congress on Particle Technology (WCPT9) on September 18-22, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. He would present key highlights on “CFD modeling for Industrial FCC riser feed injection with extension to other vapor/liquid/solid applications”.

CPFD will be hosting a webinar on: Getting Started with Virtual Reactor 22.0 on August 10, 2022 to share recent developments, major features and enhancements in Barracuda Virtual Reactor’s multiphase simulation capabilities for vapor/liquid/solid (VLS) systems.

CPFD Software entered into a long-term software licensing contract with Kumho Petrochemical to support Kumho Petrochemical in their goals though the local distributor, Kyungwon Tech.

CPFD Software has been invited to speak at the 2022 European Refining Technology Conference in November 7-10, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. Peter Loezos, Vice President of Engineering, would present on “New Vapor/Liquid/Solid simulation Capabilities for FCC Risers, Ebullated Beds and Chemical Recycling of Plastics”.

CPFD announces live stream option for the Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2022. The conference livestreaming is provided to those who can not attend the in-person event.

CPFD Software enters into a 2-year software licensing contract with ENEA of Italy. ENEA uses CPFD Software’s Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation software for the simulation of a dual fluidized bed (DFB) system aimed at the modelling of several components of the EU research infrastructure ZECOMIX (Zero Emissions of Carbon with Mixed technologies).

Dr. James Parker, CTO at CPFD has been invited to speak at the 2022 NETL Multiphase Flow Science Workshop, presenting on “Application of MP-PIC method to Ebullated Bed Reactors”.

CPFD Software enters into a software licensing and services agreement with Skeleton Technologies (Germany). Barracuda is helping Skeleton increase their in depth knowledge & understanding and streamlining their production, further increase thier confidence level in thier future development goals.

CPFD Software announces that it has entered into a software licensing contract with Tianjin Cement Industry Design & Research Institute Co., LTD. Tianjin Cement Institute will use CPFD Software’s Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation software to further its technology, products, and vision.

CPFD Software ran a battery of benchmarks that compared Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulations on NVIDIA A100 GPUs to CPUs. A 50x-400x speedup was observed. The simulations that would take days or weeks can now be done in hours.

Peter Blaser at CPFD Software has been invited to speak at GLS-15, the 15th International Conference on Gas–Liquid and Gas–Liquid–Solid Reactor Engineering (GLS-15) and will present on the topic “Application of MP-PIC method to Ebullated Bed Reactors” at Ottawa, Canada on August 7-10.

Azure and CPFD have joined forces to offer customers a compelling range of options to explore Virtual Reactor on Azure and pick the best VM sizing suited to their use case requirements. Barracuda Virtual Reactor users have instant access to virtually unlimited, on-demand computational capacity through Microsoft Azure.

CPFD was has been invited to speak at the 24th Fluidized Bed Conversion Conference (FBC-24), May 8-11. Ali Akhavan, Senior Process Engineer – Fluidization, presented on “The role of GPU computing in the commercialization and scale-up of fluidized bed conversion processes”.

CPFD Software is pleased to announce addition of Dr. Sathish Sanjeevi to its team of experts as a Research Engineer.

Mr. Rajat Barua, President & CEO of CPFD Software has been invited to speak at CERAWeek 2022. Rajat Barua would present on “Convergence of digital technologies accelerates innovation” examining how these technologies have impacted other industries and are now being deployed in energy and energy-intensive applications to accelerate innovation.

CPFD opens registration for the Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference 2022 which will be held at the W Chicago – Lakeshore hotel, immediately following the PSRI Annual Meeting.

CPFD has been invited to speak at tcbiomass in April 19-21 CPFD and is pleased to be a Bronze Sponsor at the event and staging an exhibit. Peter Blaser will be presenting on “The role of GPU computing in accelerating commercialization and scale-up of thermochemical conversion processes” at the event.

CPFD has been invited to speak at NVIDIA GTC 2022, March 21-24, 2022. Peter Blaser (VP Operations) will present talk S42630 alongside Andy Lin of Mark III Systems and talk S42300 with Nicola Sessions and Gauhar Junnarkur, of NVIDIA and Microsoft, respectively.

Kaya Oil (Lagos, Nigeria) and CPFD Software (Houston, USA) have entered into an agreement establishing Kaya Oil as the Nigerian agent for Barracuda Virtual Reactor® to provide cutting edge diagnostic tools afforded by their specialized Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technology to the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry, as well as to the manufacturing industry,”

CPFD Software has become an Industrial partner of CUWP Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics. Barracuda Virtual Reactor is enabling, and reducing the time to market for, multiple sustainability technologies that are changing our planet for the better, with a prime example being the advanced recycling / chemical recycling of plastics.

PT Ingenious (Cileungsi, Bogor, Indonesia) and CPFD Software announce that they have entered into an agreement establishing PT Ingenious as the Indonesian agent for Barracuda Virtual Reactor®. Customers in Indonesia and neighboring countries can now obtain software licensing, training, and related services directly from PT Ingenious.

CPFD Software announces that it has entered into a software licensing contract with CBMI Construction Co.Ltd. CBMI Construction will use CPFD Software’s Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation software to further its technology, products, and vision. 

CPFD will host a webinar on 19th January, 2022: Getting Started with Virtual Reactor 21.1. Webinar focuses on major features and enhancements of the Barracuda Virtual Reactor 21.1 Release, including: GPU Acceleration Enhancements, Thermal Baffles and New Baffle Properties Dialog, Dynamic Fluid Distribution at Injection BCs, New Variables in User-Defined Expressions etc.

CPFD Software enteres into a software licensing contract with Wanhua Chemical Group Co. Ltd. Wanhua Chemical will use CPFD Software’s Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation software to further its technology, products, and vision, through their local distributor; Beijing Hi-key Technology Co. Ltd.

CPFD Software continues its longstanding support for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers‘ (AIChE) Particle Technology Forum (PTF) by sponsoring the PTF Student Poster Awards. CPFD congratulates Camila Garcia Jange and Jessica Hauck, winners of the 2021 Student Poster Competition.

CPFD Software announces the release of Barracuda Virtual Reactor® 21.1. This release enhances the multi-GPU capabilities of Barracuda version 21.0 of the software by increasing the calculation speed of multi-GPU simulations, allowing for faster run-times. This release is bundled with new utility script batch_movie, which will streamline the video creation process.

This webinar, jointly presented by CPFD Software, NVIDIA, and Mark III Systems, shows how Barracuda Virtual Reactor users can get the most from their multi-GPU simulations using NVIDIA DGX A100 systems.

Save the date! CPFD Software announces that the next global Barracuda Virtual Reactor Users’ Conference is scheduled for June 29 – July 1, 2022 in Chicago.

Peter Blaser, Vice President of CPFD Software, will speak online on the topic “Engineering and Design in the Cloud” during the English language Technical Leaders Track on October 13 at AWS’s EMEA Manufacturing and Industrials Symposium.

CPFD Software is pleased to announce the release of Barracuda Virtual Reactor® 21.0.1, which is a maintenance release correcting a few issues and augmenting other features to increase efficiency.

CPFD and Tecplot, Inc. will present a joint webinar on September 22, 2021, “Analyzing Bubble Characteristics in Simulations of Fluidized Beds”. Specific features of Tecplot for Barracuda covered include Extract Blanked Zones, Extract Connected Regions, and Perform Integration.

CPFD Software announces the release of Barracuda Virtual Reactor® 21.0. This release is the first to support multi-GPU calculations, enabling users to run larger simulations than ever before, and to do so at faster speeds than any previous version of Virtual Reactor™.

CPFD will host a webinar on June 16, 2021, Getting Started with Virtual Reactor 21.0, to share the major features and enhancements of this release such as support for multi-GPU calculations.

Finally, the 13th International Conference on Fluidized Bed Technology is hosted by CFB on May 10-14, 2021 at Vancouver, Canada. The conference proceedings included multiple papers and video presentations involving Barracuda Virtual Reactor.

Hydrocarbon Processing, the downstream sector’s leading technical publication, has announced CPFD Software’s Barracuda Virtual Reactor as the 2020 winner of its Best Software Technology Award. The awards program honors the…

CPFD Software supported Strauss Lab at McGill University by donating two Graphical Processing Units (GPUs). These donated cards will effectively double the information content in the most challenging projects, and will enable the team to tackle problems of a substantially larger scale.

CPFD’s October training class has reached capacity, so we are scheduling two additional web-based classes in 2020, targeting the European and North American time zones. For the first part of…

CPFD will be speaking at NVIDIA GTC 21, April 12-16, 2021. GTC 21 covers the most transformative technologies of our time, it is packed with breakthroughs in AI, data center, graphics, accelerated computing, intelligent networking etc.

CPFD’s Bryan Tomsula has been invited to speak at Albemarle’s FCC Process Technology Course on the topic of utilizing simulation for FCCU troubleshooting in March 2021.

CPFD team of experts Mohammadhadi Nakhaei, Damien Grévain, Lars Skaarup Jensen, Peter Glarborg, Kim Dam–Johansen and Hao Wu shared a detailed work and results with the global cement industry and Virtual Reactor user communities in January 2021.

CPFD Software announces the release of Barracuda Virtual Reactor® 20.1. This release includes updates and enhancements that improve usability, physics, and post-processing capabilities. Some of the features include: Updated New Project Dialog, New runtime.log File, Radiation Models Moved to Global Settings Window, P-1 Radiation Model, etc.

CPFD Software and DAL Teknik Makina entered into a multi-year software licensing contract for CPFD’s Barracuda Virtual Reactor® Software. DAL Teknik uses Virtual Reactor™ to design, scale and trouble-shoot cement technology equipment and processes resulting in multiple benefits to their customers.

TechnipFMC and Suncor Energy‘s recent article, “Modelling ensures a successful revamp”. This article describes how CPFD Software’s proprietary software, Barracuda Virtual Reactor, is used to confirm the adequacy of the proposed hardware changes, fine-tune the design, and evaluate the performance to minimize risks on start-up.

CPFD Software iss highly commended for a second consecutive year by IChemE Global Awards. CPFD’s joint entry, together with ThermoChem Recovery International, USA (TRI), is entitled Digital Technology Enables Novel Waste-to-Fuels Process, and highlights TRI’s digitalization journey with Barracuda Virtual Reactor culminating in the conversion of municipal solid waste (MSW) to jet fuel.

CPFD schedules its next web-based training class for Barracuda Virtual Reactor. The class will be held in November 9th-12th to get you up-to-speed quickly using Barracuda version 20 and our new bundled post-processor, Tecplot for Barracuda.

https://player.vimeo.com/382225837 CPFD Software has had an event packed year that would not have been possible without each of you. We’ve made a short video of just some of the memorable…

CPFD Software is offering training and remote office updates to its customers and partners in response to the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic.

CPFD Software’s engineering services division is actively looking for top-quality talented engineers with experience in refining, petrochemical, gasification, or other fluidization-related fields, in Houston, TX.

CPFD Software is pleased to announce a new partnership with Tecplot. After July 1, new releases of Barracuda Virtual Reactor will include a complimentary limited Tecplot license called Tecplot for Barracuda, giving users access to Tecplot 360’s powerful CFD visualization and analysis tools.

CPFD Software’s engineering services division is continuing to experience exceptional growth and we are seeking more top-quality talent in Houston, TX.  If you know someone who has refining, petrochemical, gasification…

CPFD Software announced that it has signed an amendment to extend its existing contract with Gas Technology Institute (GTI), marking the continuation of a strong partnership. GTI is the leading…

CPFD Software Releases Barracuda Virtual Reactor 17.3 Albuquerque, NM – March 27, 2018 – CPFD, LLC is pleased to announce the release of Barracuda Virtual Reactor 17.3, engineering software for simulation…

CPFD Software is proud to be a sponsor for the 8th World Congress on Particle Technology from April 22nd – 26th, 2018 in Orlando, FL. We will be hosting Booth 101,…

To support its growth and expansion plans, CPFD Software is pleased to announce that Rajat Barua has been appointed President and CEO. Rajat joins CPFD with 20 years of industry…

CPFD Software's engineering services division experienced tremendous growth in 2017 and anticipates the need for more top-quality engineering staff in 2018.  If you know someone who has refining or petrochemical…

Planning is underway for our 2018 European User Group Meeting, scheduled for Monday, April 9, 2018, at the Derag Livinghotel De Medici in Düsseldorf, Germany. If you plan on staying overnight, please…

2017 ERTC Presentation: Resolving Severe Regenerator Maldistribution Presented by Peter Blaser, Vice President of Engineering, CPFD Software LLC Please join us for our first webinar in 2018. Peter Blaser, CPFD…

CPFD Software is growing and we need more project engineers who have experience with chemical engineering, industrial fluidization processes/equipment and computational modeling.

Join us at the 2017 AIChE Annual Meeting from October 29 – November 3, 2017 in Minneapolis MN. CPFD Software engineers are coauthors on several papers being presented: 751g Numerical…

CPFD Software is searching for potential distributors in South America for Barracuda Virtual Reactor®. If you are aware of interested parties or have any relevant points of contact, please forward…

A Barracuda Virtual Reactor New User Training Class has been scheduled for October 20 – 24, 2014. The class will be held at CPFD Software, located in Albuquerque, NM. The training program focuses on ‘Modeling of Industrial Fluidized Systems using Barracuda Virtual Reactor®’.

CPFD Software engineers will be teaching a half-day Fluidization Simulation Workshop on Friday, September 22, 2017, from 8:00 am until noon at the PSRI offices in Chicago, IL.  The course…

CPFD Software Releases Barracuda Virtual Reactor 17.2 Albuquerque, NM – June 16, 2017 – CPFD Software, LLC is pleased to announce the release of Barracuda Virtual Reactor 17.2, engineering software…

CPFD Software will be participating in the PSRI Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) Meeting June 26-28, 2017. If you or a colleague plan to attend the TAC, you can connect with…

CPFD Software will host a dinner reception at Raised Bar in Chicago, IL on Monday, June 26 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM in conjunction with the PSRI TAC meeting. If you are…

A Barracuda New User Training Class has been scheduled for May 5 – 9, 2014. The class will be held at CPFD Software, located in Albuquerque. The training program focuses on ‘Modeling of Industrial Fluidized Systems using Barracuda VR’.

Sam Clark, Senior Project Engineer at CPFD Software, will present a paper titled “Industrial Case Studies of Solutions Enabled by Simulation of Fluidized Systems” as part of the Symposium on…

CPFD Software is pleased to announce that Bill Lutz has been hired as the new Sales Manager, based in the Woodlands, TX. Mr. Lutz will be working with the existing professional…

A Barracuda New User Training Class has been scheduled for February 17 – 21, 2014. The class will be held at CPFD Software, located in Albuquerque, NM. The training focuses on Modeling of Industrial Fluidized Systems using Barracuda VR.

Dr. Ken Williams and Dr. Dale Snider, Co-Founders and Owners of CPFD Software, are pleased to announce that John Chavez has been appointed as President of CPFD and that Beverly…

The 2017 Barracuda Virtual Reactor training dates have been announced.  Click here to see what an average class agenda for a week looks like. Then find a date below that works for you and fill…

CPFD Software will host an evening reception of drinks and hors d’oeuvres Tuesday, November 15th from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM during the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting in San Francisco,…

The 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting, the premier educational forum for chemical engineers interested in innovation and professional growth, is quickly approaching. This year the Annual Meeting will be held November 13-18 in…

Albuquerque, NM, USA CPFD Software LLC, developers of process engineering software for fluidized reactors, today announced the formation of a Technical Advisory Board. The initial three members, Ken Peccatiello, Principal…

On September 15th, CPFD Software will present the third webinar of its FCC series, How Regenerator Maldistribution Affects Emissions, Afterburn and Catalyst Losses. Ray Fletcher, FCC Senior Technologist with CPFD…

Dr. James Parker, CPFD Software’s Chief Technical Officer, will present at the U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory’s (NETL) 2016 Workshop on Multiphase Flow Science. This year’s workshop…

The 2016 Barracuda Virtual Reactor training dates have been announced.  Click here to see what an average class agenda for a week looks like. Then find a date below that works for you and fill…

CPFD Software is continuing its tradition of sponsoring the Particle Technology Forum (PTF) dinner.  Look for members of the engineering team at the PTF dinner on Wednesday, November 11.  We…