2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Biomass Particulate Systems: Dynamics, Modeling, and Simulation

Chair

Karla Sperati, The Dow Chemical Company

Co-Chair

Kerry Johanson, Material Flow Solutions, Inc.

Presentations

08:00 AM

(110a) A Hysteretic Nonlinear Elastoplastic Contact Model for Discrete Element Modeling of Milled Woody Biomass
Feiyang Chen, Yidong Xia, Qiushi Chen, Yuan Guo, Jordan Klinger, Tiasha Bhattacharjee

08:15 AM

(110b) Discrete Element Modeling of Irregular-Shaped Switchgrass Particles for Integrated Process Optimization
Qiushi Chen, Zakia Tasnim, Yuan Guo, Yidong Xia, Roni Mohammad, Sandra Eksioglu

08:30 AM

(110c) A Multi-Regime Continuum Approach for Modeling Flow of Granular Pine Chip
Jordan Klinger, Wencheng Jin, Yidong Xia

08:45 AM

(110d) A Kinetic Approach to Simulating Spherocylindrical Particles
Andrew Hong, Aaron Morris

09:00 AM

(110e) Superdem-CFD: Open Source Parallel Solver for Non-Spherical Particle-Fluid Fluidization Systems
Jia Yu, Xi Gao, Liqiang Lu, Cheng Li, William Rogers

09:15 AM

(110f) Computational Fluid-Dynamics Modeling of Biomass-Feedstock Flow Using a Non-Local Granular-Fluidity Constitutive Model
Syed Ahsan, Hari Sitaraman, Jordan Klinger, Jonathan Stickel

09:30 AM

(110g) Computational Modeling of a Biomass Screw-Feeder with Compressible Non-Newtonian Rheology
Mohammad J. Rahimi, Hari Sitaraman, James J. Lischeske, David A. Sievers, Jonathan Stickel

09:45 AM

(110h) Flow Characterization of Fibrous Woody Biomass Using Experiments and Modeling
Matthew Liberatore, Ehsan Akbari Fakhrabadi, Jonathan Stickel