Tag Archives: Featured Petrochem

Experimental and Numerical Research on Chemical Looping Gasification of Coal Char in a Pressured Fluidized Bed Reactor

Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulations and experiments were used to study the gasification of Erdos bituminous coal char with Fe2O3/Al2O3 under the pressure of 0.1-0.5 MPa

Improving Circulating Fluidized Bed Dehydrogenation Technology through Optimization of Fluidization

This publication by SABIC provides insights into improving fluidization behavior by way of a systematic approach to determine the underlying root causes of issues in a commercial dehydrogenation reactor.

Downer Fluidized Bed Reactor Modeling For Catalytic Propane Oxidative Dehydrogenation with High Propylene Selectivity

This paper from the University of Western Ontario includes Barracuda Virtual Reactor simulation of the catalytic propane oxidative dehydrogenation (PODH) process in a circulating fluidized bed downer reactor.

Performance Prediction of Riser Termination Devices Using Barracuda Virtual Reactor®

Kodam, Freireich, Pretz, and Stears from Dow discuss how Barracuda Virtual Reactor has been used to investigate riser termination device performance for separating catalyst particles from the gas phase.

Dynamic Behavior of Fluidized Bed Reactors for Gas Phase LLDPE Polymerization

In this work researchers from SABIC and CPFD investigate the dynamic behavior of a commercial fluidized bed LLDPE reactor and compare with plant data.