Thermochemical processes such as pyrolysis and gasification are excellent platforms for
recycling and valorisation of agriculture, municipal and mining waste. The advancement of …

In reactor-scale CFD modeling of biomass pyrolysis with thermally-thick particles, zero-
dimensional (0D) models coupled with lumped kinetics are commonly used, as they are …

Phase change is a phenomenon that has been extensively utilized in chemical engineering,
energy, electronics, vehicle, and space exploration. From both the science and engineering …

This review presents recent advances in research on fluidized bed combustion of solid
biomass. While the main focus is on thermochemical processes occurring in fluidized beds …

The multi-fluid model has been widely used to study heat transfer between gas and solid in
bubbling fluidized beds. However, zero-dimensional (0D) model has been commonly used …

A reactive computational fluid dynamic-discrete element model (CFD-DEM) is coupled with
a one-dimensional thermally thick model to simulate biomass pyrolysis in a three …

The so-called “layer model” or “interface-based model” is a simplified single particle model,
originally developed for shorter computation time during computational fluid dynamics (CFD) …

In computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of thermochemical biomass conversion
using the discrete element method (DEM), the need to establish adequate coupling …

Between the molecular and reactor scales, which are familiar to the chemical engineering
community, lies an intermediate regime, here termed the “mesoscale,” where transport …

Biomass pyrolysis in the thermally thick regime is an important thermochemical
phenomenon encountered in many different types of reactors. In this paper, a particle …