The quest for an efficient process to convert methane efficiently to fuels and high value-
added chemicals such as olefins and aromatics is motivated by their increasing demands …

CO 2 (dry) reforming of CH 4 (DRM) reaction is an attractive measure to not only mitigate the
environmental problems such as global warming but also produce the syngas as feedstock …

In 2006, Dixon et al. published the comprehensive review article entitled “Packed tubular
reactor modeling and catalyst design using computational fluid dynamics.” More than one …

Global warming has received much public concern and carbon dioxide utilization has been
considered as one of viable approaches to reduce the CO 2 emissions and alleviate global …

Flow, heat, and mass transfer in fixed beds of catalyst particles are complex phenomena
and, when combined with catalytic reactions, are multiscale in both time and space; …

This work reports the results of a perspective workshop held in summer 2021 discussing the
current status and future needs for multiscale modeling in reaction engineering. This …

The increasing environmental concerns due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions have called
for an alternate sustainable source to fulfill rising chemical and energy demands and reduce …

Turbulent flows in porous media occur in a wide variety of applications, from catalysis in
packed beds to heat exchange in nuclear reactor vessels. In this review, we summarize the …

A promising workflow for computational generation and meshing of resolved-particle
randomly packed beds of arbitrary-shaped particles is described. The workflow is based on …

Resolved-particle 3-D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations are presented of
endothermic steam methane reforming in a random packed bed of 807 spherical catalyst …