Using Process/CFD Co-Simulation for the Design and Analysis of Advanced Energy Systems
In this presentation we describe the major features and capabilities of NETL’s Advanced Process Engineering Co-Simulator (APECS) and highlight its application to advanced energy systems, ranging from small fuel cell systems to commercial-scale power plants including the coal-fired, gasification-based electricity and hydrogen plant in the DOE’s $1 billion, 10-year FutureGen demonstration project. APECS is an integrated software suite which allows the process and energy industries to optimize overall plant performance with respect to complex thermal and fluid flow phenomena by combining process simulation (e.g., Aspen Plus®) with high-fidelity equipment simulations based on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models (e.g., FLUENT®).
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE - Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
- DOE Contract Number:
- None cited
- OSTI ID:
- 913365
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NETL-IR-2007-120; TRN: US200802%%791
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2007 Aspen Engineering Suite (AES) User Group Meeting, Houston, TX, April 10-13, 2007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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