CFD Simulation of Biomass Pyrolysis Vapor Upgrading over a Pt/TiO₂ Catalyst in Fixed and Moving Beds

Technical Report · Fri Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1886683· OSTI ID:1886683

Xu, Yupeng ^[1]; Shahnam, Mehrdad ^[2]; Rogers, William A. ^[2]

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1. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States); Research Support Contractor, Morgantown, WV (United States)
2. National Energy Technology Lab. (NETL), Morgantown, WV (United States)

This report presents a comprehensive computational fluid dynamics (CFD) study of the biomass pyrolysis vapor phase upgrading and the catalyst regeneration in different reactors under various operational conditions. This study used the open-source software Multiphase Flow with Interphase eXchanges (MFiX), developed at National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) for simulating hydrodynamics, heat transfer, and chemical reactions in multiphase systems. This simulation solved the conservation of mass, momentum, energy, species for gas and solid phases with chemical reactions.

• Research Organization: National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE); USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO)
• DOE Contract Number: 89243318CFE000003
• OSTI ID: 1886683
• Report Number(s): DOE/NETL-2022/3734
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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