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Aerotherm and CPFD Software Announce Partnership to Provide Barracuda Virtual Reactor® to South African Market

October 23, 2018

Aerotherm, a leading engineering firm providing professional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) consultation, and CPFD Software, experts in fluid-particle simulation, are excited to announce a partnership to provide Barracuda Virtual Reactor® to the South African market. 

At this year’s STAR SA Conference, held in Centurion on October 24 - 25, Wian van der Merwe, Aerotherm, will present on the CPFD Software solution and its future impact on the South African fluidization industry.

This project delivered an excellent outcome, giving us confidence that specific hardware changes would restore the operation of our Cracker to the level we expect – which it did. Our team’s collaborative approach brought together CPFD’s expertise and our refinery knowledge. I regard the use of CPFD as a key step in the digitisation of our refinery activities, and it is great to see this project having an impact on the way other refineries are operated around the world.

— Thys Heyns, Viva Energy Australia, General Manager of Refining