Syngas is an intermediate step towards the transition from carbon-based to hydrogen-based
fuels, promoted by the emerging concerns about climate change and damages to the …

With increasing the computational resources, the number of publications about coupled
computational fluid dynamics–discrete element method is in the rise in the recent years. This …

Dense gas-solid reacting flow is practised in many industrial processes where the particle
number may be huge and cannot be modelled using the conventional CFD-DEM approach …

Highlights•Review of agricultural material parameters for DEM modelling.•Contact models
reviewed and characterised.•Models of representation of shape of particles discussed.• …

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

A user-defined solver towards the high-fidelity CFD-DEM method with thermochemical sub-
models integrating is developed based on the open-source MFIX-DEM software for …

Nowadays, gasification is seen as a worldwide settled technique for sustainably generating
energy from residues. Its final product is a synthetic gas which may be used for several …

For a single isolated particle, the effect of overlap displacement on conduction and the effect
of particle diameter/fluid velocity on convection are comprehensively studied using a CFD …

The co-gasification of coal and biomass through fluidized bed gasifier is a promising
technology for the improvement of the utilization efficiency of fossil fuels and the …

Biomass gasification in a fluidized bed reactor is a complex process involving intricately
multi-scale and multi-physics processes and may be affected by many operating …