A review on technical, applications and economic aspect of packed bed solar thermal energy storage system

A Gautam, RP Saini - Journal of Energy Storage, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The development of renewable energy technologies provides a significant solution to deal
with the energy crisis, along with resolving the environment related issues. Solar energy is …

Computational fluid dynamics for fixed bed reactor design

AG Dixon, B Partopour - Annual review of chemical and …, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Flow, heat, and mass transfer in fixed beds of catalyst particles are complex phenomena
and, when combined with catalytic reactions, are multiscale in both time and space; …

A Study on CO2 Methanation and Steam Methane Reforming over Commercial Ni/Calcium Aluminate Catalysts

G Garbarino, F Pugliese, T Cavattoni, G Busca… - Energies, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Three Ni-based natural gas steam reforming catalysts, ie, commercial JM25-4Q and JM57-
4Q, and a laboratory-made catalyst (26% Ni on a 5% SiO2–95% Al2O3), are tested in a …

Study of air-steam gasification of spherocylindrical biomass particles in a fluidized bed by using CFD-DEM coupling with the multi-sphere model

R Zhang, X Ku, S Yang - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In this work, a reactive CFD-DEM coupling with the multi-sphere model has been
established and used to investigate the air-steam gasification of spherocylindrical biomass …

Review on the structure of random packed‐beds

J von Seckendorff, O Hinrichsen - The Canadian Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Independent from their intended purpose, the understanding of structural characteristics of
random packings of particles having defined shapes is important to understand and optimize …

Multi-scale modeling of plastic waste gasification: opportunities and challenges

S Madanikashani, LA Vandewalle, S De Meester… - Materials, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Among the different thermo-chemical recycling routes for plastic waste valorization,
gasification is one of the most promising, converting plastic waste into syngas (H2+ CO) and …

Experimental and numerical analysis of void structure in random packed beds of spheres

J von Seckendorff, K Achterhold, F Pfeiffer, R Fischer… - Powder Technology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The prediction of the pressure drop of packed beds requires an accurate estimation of the
packed-bed porosity as its error propagation multiplies the occurring errors by a factor of …

Comparison of particle-resolved DNS (PR-DNS) and non-resolved DEM/CFD simulations of flow through homogenous ensembles of fixed spherical and non …

B Kravets, D Schulz, R Jasevičius, SR Reinecke… - Advanced Powder …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Particle-unresolved Eulerian/Lagrangian simulations (DEM/CFD) of static
homogenous particle ensembles are compared to direct numerical simulations (DNS) …

An enhanced correlation for gas-particle heat and mass transfer in packed and fluidized bed reactors

LT Zhu, YX Liu, ZH Luo - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Particle-resolved (PR) high-fidelity simulations, eg, direct numerical simulation
(DNS), have emerged as a powerful tool to precisely capture the full details of complex fluid …

[HTML][HTML] Heat transfer from wall to dense packing structures of spheres, cylinders and Raschig rings

EM Moghaddam, EA Foumeny, AI Stankiewicz… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This paper investigates the validity of azimuthal averaging of 3D temperature fields in the
analysis of lateral heat transfer in dense particle packings. This is conducted by synthetic …