This paper focuses on the study of a solid/gas thermochemical reaction between a porous reactive bed and vapor. The objective is to determine the operating mode, either closed or open system, that best suits the requirements of a thermochemical seasonal storage applied to house heating. These two working modes have been compared thanks to two validated 2D models. This study shows that for the c...

The thermochemical state of a single-phase reacting system containing ns species is ns + 1 dimensional. However, it is widely recognized that low-dimensional manifolds exist in this space. The question then arises as to the best way to approximate these manifolds. Common chemistry reduction approaches for combustion simulation (such as laminar flamelet, equilibrium, and flame-sheet (Burke–Schum...

Transport phenomena in porous media are pertinent to thermal and thermochemical processes for power and fuel generation using concentrated solar energy. The porous media serve as insulator, radiant absorbers, heat exchangers, catalyst carriers, reactants, and/or reaction sites. Volume-averaging models for porous media, commonly applied for process simulations and optimization, rely heavily on t...

A program package has been developed that calculates chemical equilibrium and thermodynamic properties of reactants and products of a combustion reaction between fuel and air. The package consists of the following four parts: 1) A program for calculating chemical equilibrium. 2) A database that contains thermochemical information about the molecules, which comes from the GRI-Mech tables. 3) A G...

Sewage sludge is an unavoidable secondary pollution produced in the process of sewage treatment. At present traditional methods of treating sludge (e.g. landfill, incineration or land application) have some disadvantages and shortages. Direct thermochemical liquefaction of sludge is a new treatment method, which has the advantage of both treatment and energy recovery. Research progress and appl...

The article provides a perspective of chemical process and product design on-demand, plus its implementation and impact in addressing modern challenges faced by the chemical industry. The concepts of Global Information Systems in Science and Engineering in application to the field of thermodynamics as well as Dynamic Data Evaluation for thermophysical and thermochemical properties are discussed...