CPFD Software to Exhibit at GTC’s Gasification Technologies Conference

By DE Editors

CPFD Software, LLC, the creators of the Barracuda simulation package for particle-fluid systems, will be exhibiting at the 2011 Gasification Technologies Conference sponsored by the Gasification Technology Council. The conference is in San Francisco Oct. 9-12, 2011.

Dr. Chris Guenther, of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (Morgantown, WV) will be presenting CFD simulation work done by NETL that includes some Barracuda results.

Representing CPFD will be Dr. Ken Williams, co-founder, and Scott Thibault, vice president of Sales and Marketing. This is the third year that CPFD Software has attended the conference and their second year exhibiting. 

“Last year’s conference in Washington, D.C. was outstanding,” says Williams. “I never would have thought so many thought leaders from the gasification community could be gathered in one place.  There are academics, government representatives, equipment suppliers, engineering/procurement/construction contractors, plant operators, and financiers all present and talking together.”

CPFD Software’s booth will feature videos of gasification simulations for coal and biomass gasifiers with and without chemical reactions. CPFD’s representatives will be available to discuss how CPFD’s clients use Barracuda for a range of needs related to gasification, including scaling up to commercial-size units; ensuring proper mixing of gas and particles; design of spargers, solids feeds, heaters, etc.; ensuring proper residence time; and the effects of chemistry on conversion and emissions.  The booth will also have information and a technical paper on Chemical Looping Combustion (CLC), in which a full CLC rig modeled by NETL was simulated in Barracuda, with simulation and experimental results compared. 

For more information, visit CPFD Software and the Gasification Technologies Council.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.