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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

After years of using CFD packages and trying to force fit gas-solid flow, I have found Barracuda to be a breath of fresh air. CPFD’s approach to gas-solid systems allows you to produce results in a much shorter time period.

— Dr. Sue Gelderbloom, P.E., Dow Corning Corp.
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