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 …

Thermal energy storage (TES) transfers heat to storage media during the charging period,
and releases it at a later stage during the discharging step. It can be usefully applied in solar …

Abstract Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is an electricity generation technology that
concentrates solar irradiance through heliostats onto a small area, the receiver, where a …

Polymers are the most versatile material in our modern day and age. With certain chemicals
and additives (pigments, concentrates, anti-blockers, light transformers (LTs), UV-stabilizers …

Positron emission particle tracking (PEPT) is a technique which allows the high-resolution,
three-dimensional imaging of particulate and multiphase systems, including systems which …

The paper starts by reviewing the increasing production of waste and the growing
importance of its thermal treatment, which aims at volume reduction of the waste, at the …

Gas-solid fluidized-bed systems offer great advantages in terms of chemical reaction
efficiency and temperature control where other chemical reactor designs fall short. For this …

The particle solar receivers (PSRs) have attracted widespread attention because of their
high-temperature absorption and thermal energy storage functions. Among varieties of …

Abstract Computational Fluid Dynamics coupled with Discrete Element Method (CFD-DEM)
is a commonly used numerical method to model gas-solid flow in fluidised beds and other …

Fluidized bed-fast pyrolysis of biomass is considered as having a high commercial potential
for the thermal treatment of biomass. This paper mainly presents a model developed further …