MUSCATS
MUlti-Scale modeling of fluidized/ebullated bed reaCtors involving anisotropic parTicleS
Funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), the MUSCATS (MUlti-Scale modeling of fluidized/ebullated bed reaCtors involving anisotropic parTicleS) project was launched in October 2019 for a period of 4 years.
IFPEN joined forces with the Toulouse Institute of Fluid Mechanics (IMFT) and the Chemical Engineering Laboratory (LGC) to pool the fluid mechanics and chemical engineering expertise required to achieve a common objective: develop innovative CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) models capable to predict the multi-scale reactions occurring in liquid-solid fluidized beds with anisotropic particles.
Even if little studied, unlike gas-solid fluidized beds with spherical particles, liquid-solid fluidized beds are nevertheless widely used in a variety of industrial processes dedicated to oil and biomass exploitation as well as water treatment. Thanks to a better understanding, they can be optimized for the benefit of energy transition.
The MUSCATS project concerns IFPEN's scientific challenge No.6 “Modeling of coupled phenomena”.
