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Engineering Benefits

  • Barracuda Virtual Reactor is a engineering software package developed exclusively for one single application: gas-particle fluidization reactors and their internal components
  • VR is based upon our proprietary numerical method which is unique in its ability to model gas flows with any loading of discrete particulate solids of any size distribution
  • VR has been validated extensively against large-scale experimental data from PSRI and others worldwide R&D organizations
  • VR has been validated with industrial operating reactors across diverse industries: oil refining; chemicals production; coal combustion; gasification and many other FBRs
  • VR has its solids chemistry coupled to the flow field to accurately compute your ‘products’
  • VR users are provide with in-depth training, and then given direct technical support by experienced CPFD engineers
  • VR is being continually enhanced with new features and state-of-the art computing power
  • VR can make you highly successful by offering tremendous gains in engineering insights and optimization of your company’s fluidization reactors

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
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