Gas-solid fluidized beds have drawn the attention of engineers and researchers as an
effective technology for a large variety of applications, and numerical simulations can play …

Gas-solid fluidization technology has been commercialized in many industrial applications
since its implementation in the fluid catalytic cracking process in the early 1940s, however …

Virtual process engineering (VPE) aims to redefine the roadmap for process scaling-up and
optimization, from stepwise experiments to high-performance computer simulations. This is a …

For the purpose of process optimization and scale-up, coupling energy-minimization multi-
scale (EMMS) drag model with computational particle fluid dynamics (CPFD) is a good …

Carbonate looping (CaL) technology has the potential to efficiently capture CO 2 from power
plants and carbon-intensive industries such as cement production. Its feasibility has been …

This work focuses on a comparison between the Euler-Euler Two Fluid Model (TFM)
approach and the coupled coarse grain discrete element CFD-DEM numerical model for the …

Particles under fluidization conditions tend to clog and aggregate, and form meso–scale
structures that significantly affect gas-solid transport phenomena. In the last decade …

The current work presents an Artificial Neural Network EMMS (ANN-EMMS) drag scheme,
developed specifically for applications related to fluidized bed (FB) reactors in chemical …

In this study the multiphase particle-in-cell (MP-PIC) method is used for the simulation of two
pilot-scale circulating fluidized beds (CFBs) with quartz sand belonging to Geldart's group B …

A three-dimensional CFD model was developed to simulate the hydrodynamics in a pilot-
scale dual fluidized bed system for biomass gasification. The system includes a fast fluidized …