This special issue presents selected papers from the 2nd SCORF 2014 pertinent to catalyst preparation and characterization, catalytic reactions, simulation computation, and new advances in petrochemical production and refining technologies.
It uses a readable, plain-text configuration file to specify molecular species, reactions, simulation surfaces or compartments and has a run-time command feature that allows users to specify either observations (e.g. concentration profiles, total molecule numbers) or manipulations of the system (e.g. moving surfaces, changing reaction or diffusion rates).
The Regional Simulation Model (RS M, combined with the Transport and Reaction Simulation Engine (TARSE), was adapted to simulate ecology.
Recently, the coupled regional simulation model (RS M and transport and reaction simulation engine (TARSE) model were adapted to simulate ecological processes, specifically Typha domingensis (cattail) dynamics in the Everglades, with five levels of increasing complexity being used.
The fair agreement between our new model with literature data suggests a fresh paradigm for the CFB related reaction simulation.
The second one, newly designed, provides knowledge acquisition and learning tools for exploration and derivation of knowledge that can be employed in the reaction simulation process.
The combination of CFD modelling and kinetic modelling offset the deviation of temperature measurement and hence provided a sample for high temperature reaction simulation.
Two example problems are presented: a smaller, three fluid/two solid/one reaction simplified model of oil shale combustion, and a larger, nine fluid/10 solid/15 reaction simulation of in situ oil shale retorting with time-dependent boundary conditions.
Calculations were performed using a gas-phase reaction simulation, and the contribution of solvent then taken into account using the Polarizable Continuum Model for two solvents water and toluene.
To this end, it was decided to use the Regional Simulation Model (RSM), which was developed by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) to replace the popular SFWMM, coupled with the Transport and Reaction Simulation Engine (TARSE) to provide the base structure for modeling cattail dynamics across the test site.
A combined effort of the University of Florida, the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), and the US Geological Survey created the Transport and Reaction Simulation Engine (TARSE) (Jawitz et al. 2008), which was originally designed to run in line with the SFWMD-developed Regional Simulation Model (RSM) (SFWMD 2005c) to simulate soil phosphorus dynamics in the Everglades system.
