Complementing DEM for Large-Scale, Thermal, Reacting, Multiphase Systems

Peter Blaser, Vice President of Operations at CPFD presents at the 2024 ATCx DEM.

This presentation explores how Virtual Reactor technology is used to complement DEM simulation for large scale, thermal, reacting systems.  Barracuda Virtual Reactor, available through the Altair Partner Alliance, is a physics-based engineering software package that simulates the three-dimensional, transient, fluid-particle hydrodynamics, heat transfer, and chemical reactions in industrial fluidized bed reactors and other fluid-particle systems.  In this session we present the Virtual Reactor software, discuss when it should be considered as a complement to DEM, and illustrate the concept with industrial case studies.