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 …

In the past few decades, multi-scale numerical methods have been developed to model
dense gas-solid flow in fluidized beds with different resolutions, accuracies, and efficiencies …

Numerical methods like computational fluid dynamics (CFD) for predicting multiphase flow
involving solid particles potentially offer promising benefits to a wide range of applications …

Spouted beds are commonly simulated through the Computational Fluid Dynamics–Discrete
Element Method approach. The choice of the drag model is still a matter of debate, as they …

The Eulerian–Eulerian method is efficient when dealing with liquid–solid slurry flows
containing a large number of particles, but its reliability relies on an accurate description of …

The dual fluidized bed (DFB) reactor is promising to convert biomass into high-quality
syngas efficiently. In this work, a three-dimensional model is built based on the granular …

This study established a complete heat transfer prediction model that integrates four heat
transfer sub-models, including contact heat conduction, gas film heat conduction, heat …

Recently, biomass has gained attention as a renewable energy resource due to low
emissions and ample availability. Thermochemical conversion technologies to handle …

Abstract Based on the Eulerian-Lagrangian framework, a reactive multi-phase particle-in-
cell (MP-PIC) method is used to simulate biomass gasification in a three-dimensional pilot …

Drag force models are one of the most important factors that can affect TFM and CFD-DEM
simulation results of two-phase systems. This article investigates the accuracies …