Barracuda VR Virtual Reactor Software for design, scale-up ... · Bed entrainment rate by particle size ... FCC Catalyst Regeneration • Discrete particle-level chemistry calculates

Stop guessing and take a look inside your reactor to learn how it operates

! Product generation rates and the limiters

! Causes of emissions (e.g., NOx or SOx)

! Start-up, turndown, or upset operating conditions

! Fluidization mode (spouted-bed, bubbling bed, turbulent bed)

! Gas and particle residence time distributions

! Bed entrainment rate by particle size

! 3-D mixing profiles

! Temperature profiles (hot or cold spots)

! Solids flux, circulation rates, choked flows

! Erosion locations on walls and internals

! Cyclone loadings, dipleg plugging

Barracuda helps customers achieve significant cost savings and profitability! More reliable and profitable fluidized reactors

! Increase product yields, conversion, and quality

! Reduce undesired byproducts and emissions

! Optimize new designs and down-select between alternative candidate modifications

! Reduce risks prior to building a pilot plant

! Scale-up to larger size unit

! Feedstock and throughput modifications

! Meet emissions requirements cost effectively

! Minimize downtime and troubleshoot equipment

A commercial FCC regenerator customer model reveals the spatial extent of coke burn-off from the spent catalyst. Customer is correcting poor gas/particle flow distribution in order to reduce afterburn and related NOx / SOx emissions, and to optimize the heat balance of the process.

10899 Montgomery Blvd. NE, Suite A Albuquerque, NM 87111

+1-505-275-3849 www.cpfd-software.com

Barracuda VR Virtual Reactor Software for design, scale-up and optimization of fluidized reactor systems

Simulate discrete particle physics and chemistryfor complex heterogeneous reactions

Coal & Biomass Gasification• Multi-material particles allow any coal

composition to be accurately modeled• Include temperature-dependent

devolatilization of CH4, CO, H2O

Polysilicon FBRs• Particle-level CVD chemistry for silicon

deposition from silane or trichlorosilane in a fluidized bed reactor

• Model heating and cooling requirements for the fluidized bed

• Model direct or hydrochlorination FBRs

FCC Catalyst Regeneration• Discrete particle-level chemistry calculates

coke burn-off from spent catalyst during regeneration, and reduce NOx / SOx levels, with a full-scale regenerator model

Join our world-wide community using the Barracuda VR engineering software for industrial fluidization applications

10899 Montgomery Blvd. NE, Suite A Albuquerque, NM 87111

+1-505-275-3849 www.cpfd-software.com

Carbon Capture & Gas Cleanup• Model adsorption of gases onto sorbent

solids with multi-material particles and particle level chemical kinetics

• Model full-loop CO2 capture systems

• Optimize sorbent regeneration in sulfur cleanup systems

SIMULATE UNDERSTAND OPTIMIZE

• Chemical looping combustion (CLC)• Sorbent-based Carbon capture systems • Sorbent-based syngas cleanup systems• Ore roasters and oxidizers• Cement calciners• Liquid-solid settling vessels

• FCC reactors and regenerators• Chemical reactors such as polypropylene,

acrylonitrile, and methylchlorosilane • Gasifiers, coal and biomass• Riser reactors• Circulating fluidized beds (CFBs)