Woody Residue Gasification: A Dual Solution for Decarbonisation
Learn how solid feed gasification enables the large-scale conversion of biomass and municipal solid waste into renewable fuels and chemicals, supporting decarbonization goals.
Fluidization for Sustainability and Decarbonization Applications: The Parallel Evolving Roles of Processes and Computational Tools
This article examines the current trends in fluidization that have come about due to the newfound focus on sustainable applications, and how the role of computation tools used by those pursuing the applications is changing as well.
A CPFD Simulation on Hydrodynamics of Carbon Nanotube Aggregates in a Fluidized Bed
This paper uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor to create a model of a fluidized bed reactor with carbon nanotube particles, which describes hydrodynamic behaviors such as bed expansion and solid holdup distribution.
Solar-driven biomass steam gasification by new concept of solar particles heat carrier with CPFD simulation
This paper, which uses Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation results, demonstrates that solar-driven biomass gasification, using solar-heated particles as a heat carrier and a fluidized bed reactor, enhances green H2-enriched syngas production by improving heat transfer and gasification kinetics, thereby enabling continuous and stable operation despite fluctuating solar flux.
MP-PIC investigation of glycerol steam reforming in bubbling fluidized bed for high-quality hydrogen production
A reactive multiphase particle-in-cell approach is adopted to numerically investigate the physical and thermochemical characteristics of glycerol steam reforming process in a three-dimensional bubbling fluidized bed.
Glycerol steam reforming for hydrogen production: Traditional versus membrane reactor
A phenomenological model was developed for predicting the performance of a traditional reactor (TR) versus a membrane reactor (MR) for hydrogen production via glycerol steam reforming (GSR), which was validated against experimental data. The results were evaluated in terms of glycerol conversion and products yield and selectivity, and for the MR the hydrogen recovery was also accounted.
Modeling and Simulation of an Oxygen-Blown Bubbling Fluidized Bed Gasifier Using the Computational Particle- Fluid Dynamics (CPFD) Approach
This paper from ENEA, includes Virtual Reactor simulation of the bubbling fluidized bed (BFB) upstream gasifier of the ZECOMIX EU research project.
Computational fluid dynamics study of the dry reforming of methane over Ni/Al2O3 catalyst in a membrane reactor. Coke deposition
This work investigates the dry reforming of CH4 as an important process for the conversion of greenhouse gases to synthesis gas. The paper is an attempt to numerically analyse by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) the coking and gasification mechanisms in the lab-scale membrane module with a fixed-bed supported nickel catalyst (Ni/Al2O3).
Dry reforming of biogas in fluidized bed: Process intensification
This work combines a catalytic reaction, a separation and the catalyst regeneration in a single reactor. To this end, a two zone fluidized bed reactor with hydrogen selective membranes has been employed.
CPFD Simulations of an Industrial-Sized Dual Fluidized Bed Steam Gasification System of Biomass with 8 MW Fuel Input
In this study by Bioenergy 2020+ and the Technical University of Vienna, an industrial-sized dual fluidized bed biomass gasification system was simulated with Barracuda Virtual Reactor and compared with plant data.