Predicting Unexpected Behavior in Industrial Deep-Bed Fluidization Reactors and Developing Engineered Solutions with CFD

Authors: Dr. Kenneth A. Williams ^a, and Scott Thibault ^a
a CPFD Software

Source: This paper was presented at the Ninth International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Minerals and Process Industries CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia on December 10-12,2012

Abstract: This extended abstract discusses how Barracuda VR was used to simulate experimental PSRI results showing gas bypassing phenomenom, and other potentially unexpected fluidization behaviors, in an effort to determine whether or not these behaviors may be predicted computationally using CFD.