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The latest CPFD breakthrough, Barracuda Virtual Reactor® or Barracuda VR® continues to be the only software of its kind, built exclusively for one single application: Gas-Particle fluidized reactors. The Barracuda VR software package includes all our models and features, and its unique capabilities have been well validated with both large-scale experimental data and with commercial operating reactors across broad industries.

What is Barracuda VR ?

A physics-based engineering software package capable of predicting all fluid, particulate-solid, thermal and chemically reacting behavior inside a fluidized reactor in order to maximize its productivity and reliability.

What is Barracuda VR’s value to Industry

To addresse complex, multi-million dollar issues:

Oil refinery shutdown: $1MM per day

Reactor emissions control: $20-100 MM per unit

Elimination of a pilot plant: $150-250MM

How is Barracuda VR used?

Reactor operations troubleshooting

Reactor reliability and ‘yield’ improvements

Reactor scale-up

Reactor new design or feedstock change-out

Reactor emissions reductions

What is Barracuda VR’s Technology Scope?

Industrial-scale units, e.g., 10’s of meters in length-scale

3-D physical model, with transient to a steady ‘time-averaged’ solution

Fluid flow phenomena, fully coupled to,

Particulate-solids phenomena for all ‘dilute-to-dense’ regimes

Chemically reacting gaseous and particulate-solid materials

Post-processing to quickly and clearly develop solutions

Validated against large-scale experiments and industrial units