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 …

Biomass fast pyrolysis is potentially one of the cheapest routes toward renewable liquid
fuels. Its commercialization, however, poses a multi-scale challenge, which starts with the …

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 …

Biomass as a form of energy source may be utilized in two different ways: directly by burning
the biomass and indirectly by converting it into solid, liquid or gaseous fuels. Pyrolysis is an …

Equilibrium position, as well as dynamic patterns of suspended particles, plays a dominant
role in particle manipulation of segregation, transporting, or sorting. The current paper aims …

Dense particulate reaction system (DPRS) is quite common in many engineering fields such
as energy conversion, petro-chemical processing, mineral processing, chemical …

Understanding and modelling the dynamic behaviour of particulate systems has been a
major research focus worldwide for many years. Discrete particle simulation plays an …

Biomass pyrolysis is a thermochemical conversion process that undergoes a complex set of
concurrent and competitive reactions in oxygen-depleted conditions. A considerable amount …

Modeling is regarded as a suitable tool to improve biomass pyrolysis in terms of efficiency,
product yield, and controllability. However, it is crucial to develop advanced models to …

In the last decade, a few of the early attempts to bring CFD-DEM of fluidized beds beyond
the limits of small, lab-scale units to larger scale systems have become popular. The …