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Solving Energy Device Riddles with Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics
By Gerrill Griffith // Technical Contact: Dr. Madhava Syamlal Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is the use of applied mathematics, physics and computational software to describe how a gas or a liquid flows. The CFD simulations require high performance computers such...
Nodeworks Software Toolset Helps Design Optimal Energy Systems
Nodeworks inside of MFiX, being used to create and run 100 cyclone simulations. When NETL recently upgraded its supercomputer Joule, tripling its CPUs and increasing its computational powers by eight-fold, the Lab bolstered one of its most valuable research...
Top-Notch Talent and Facilities Foster Energy Discovery
by Brian Anderson, Ph.D. NETL is home to world-class talent. Our researchers, scientists and engineers have unmatched expertise that contributes to the Lab’s reputation as the nation’s premier fossil energy science and engineering resource. Facilities provide critical...
NETL Celebrates Facilities to Support Efficient, Affordable Energy Technologies
NETL celebrated new and revamped facilities that expand the Lab’s robust research capabilities to develop efficient, affordable energy technology solutions at a special ceremony Friday, June 14. NETL welcomed U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, U.S. Representative...
Simulation Based Engineering at NETL
By Dr. Cynthia Powell I magine being able to design and optimize an entire fossil-fuel power plant, from fuel processing, through energy conversion, to power distribution, and to include the integration of pollution control devices to assure near-zero emissions,...
Simulations of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit on NETL’s Joule Supercomputer Support the Idaho Cleanup Project
There are approximately one million gallons of radioactive sodium-bearing liquid waste being stored at the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. To reduce the environmental footprint, the Department of Energy has...
Development of a Three-dimensional Transient Wall Heat Transfer Model of a Rotating Detonation Combustor
Numerical simulation of transient heat transfer characteristics of a Rotating Detonation Combustor (RDC) is presented in this paper. A three-dimensional transient conduction model was developed…
Molecular Simulations of CO2, H2, H2O, and H2S Gas Absorption into Hydrophobic Poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) Solvent: Solubility and Surface Tension
Liquid surface tension is an important parameter to characterize the gas-liquid contact area in gas absorption with direct implications for the overall absorber equipment size and the associated capital cost. Additionally, liquid surface tension is one of the main...
New Databases for Development of High-Performance Alloys
Advanced technologies for fossil energy power generation, such as ultra-supercritical steam plants and oxyfuel combustion boilers, will increase efficiency and facilitate the capture of carbon dioxide. Such advanced systems will operate at higher temperatures,...
Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations of a Pilot-Scale Transport Gasifier Using Mississippi Lignite Feedstock
An NETL researcher presented recent findings from ongoing gasification modeling work at the 2014 Gasification Technologies Conference. The presentation entitled "Computational Fluid Dynamic Simulations of a Pilot-Scale Transport Gasifier Using Mississippi Lignite...