2008 HBCU: TECHNICAL TOPIC 2 - COMPUTATIONAL ENERGYSCIENCES - SUBTOPIC 2B: PROCESS/EQUIPMENT CO-SIMULATION ADVANCED FOSSILENERGY PLANTS

The summary for the 2008 HBCU: TECHNICAL TOPIC 2 - COMPUTATIONAL ENERGYSCIENCES - SUBTOPIC 2B: PROCESS/EQUIPMENT CO-SIMULATION ADVANCED FOSSILENERGY PLANTS Federal Grant is detailed below. It contains information such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number, who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, important deadlines, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed in the Grant Announcement Contact section. If these sections are incomplete, please visit the website of the government agency that is offering this grant.


	Federal Grant Title:	2008 HBCU: TECHNICAL TOPIC 2 - COMPUTATIONAL ENERGYSCIENCES - SUBTOPIC 2B: PROCESS/EQUIPMENT CO-SIMULATION ADVANCED FOSSILENERGY PLANTS
	CFDA Number:	81.089
	CFDA Description:	Fossil Energy Research and Development
	Federal Agency Name:	National Energy Technology Laboratory
	Category of Funding Activity:	Science and Technology Energy
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	DE-PS26-08NT00198-02B
	Document Type:	Modification to Previous Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Grant
	Posted Date:	Apr 04, 2008
	Creation Date:	Apr 07, 2008
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	Jun 05, 2008
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
	Archive Date:	Aug 04, 2008
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$200,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$80,000
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	No

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Additional Information on Eligibility: In accordance with 10 CFR 600.6(b), eligibility for award is restricted to Historically Black Colleges and Universities or Other Minority Institutions (HBCUs/OMIs) as educational entities recognized by the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), U.S. Department of Education, and identified on the OCRs Department of Education U.S. accredited postsecondary minorities institution list (http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/edlite-minorityinst.html) in effect on the closing date of the program Announcement.
Grant Description: NOTE: This descriptive area provides an overview of Subtopic 2B only. YOU MUST READ THE ENTIRE FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT DOCUMENT FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, EVALUATION CRITERIA AND INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO PREPARE AN APPLICATION UNDER A SPECIFIC TECHNICAL TOPIC OR SUBTOPIC. Please scroll to the bottom of this page to access the Funding Opportunity Announcement. TECHNICAL TOPIC 2 COMPUTATIONAL ENERGY SCIENCES SUBTOPIC 2B: PROCESS/EQUIPMENT CO-SIMULATION ADVANCED FOSSIL ENERGY PLANTS The fossil energy industry faces the enormous challenge of designing next-generation plants to operate with increased efficiency and reduced emissions, while ensuring profitability amid changes in environmental regulations and fluctuations in the cost of raw materials, finished products, and energy. To achieve aggressive performance and economic objectives, significant advancements in process equipment technology must be conceived, analyzed, and optimized in the context of large-scale, complex, and highly-integrated process systems. Fundamental to designing a new plant or improving the performance of an existing facility is an accurate virtual representation of the basic processes. Advanced modeling and simulation solutions are needed to foster rapid technology development, reducing pilot/demonstration-scale facility design time and operating campaigns, and lowering the cost and technical risk in realizing high-efficiency, near-zero emission plants of the future. Process simulation and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software tools provide the solutions to meet this need, solving the critical engineering and operating problems that arise throughout the lifecycle of a plant. Process/CFD co-simulation enables better understanding and optimization of the coupled fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and related phenomena that drive overall performance of advanced fossil energy plants. In addition, the optimization of individual equipment items using CFD is not done in isolation, but within the context of the overall process, so that a global improvement is achieved, especially for cases in which plant performance depends strongly on local mixing and fluid dynamics. Applications are sought to develop process/equipment co-simulations of Chemical Looping systems based on CFD simulations of the advanced fuel and air reactors. Applications are also sought to develop process/equipment co-simulations of advanced carbon capture technologies that combine CFD simulations of carbon capture technology, for example, membrane separation equipment, together with process simulations of overall carbon capture systems. Applicants are encouraged to consider the Advanced Process Engineering Co-Simulator (APECS) for combining FLUENT® and/or COMSOL Multiphysics® CFD models with Aspen Plus® process simulations. Process/CFD co-simulations may require excessive computation time, especially for cases in which one or more CFD models are embedded in the iterative flowsheet solution process. One promising solution is the use of reduced-order models (ROMs) that approximate the CFD-based equipment simulations, while keeping the computational cost manageable. Network-of-zones (multizonal) models are a class of ROMs where a CFD model of a single equipment item is represented by an interconnected network of models in the process simulator. In this case, the process simulator and CFD code model the same equipment item, but different physical phenomena. Applications are also sought to develop a multizonal process/CFD modeling approach for the simulation of advanced coal-fired entrained flow gasifiers. Strategies are required to analyze automatically the results from gasifier CFD simulations to generate systematically a network of interconnected reactor models in a process simulator. Applicants are encouraged to consider the FLUENT® and/or COMSOL Multiphysics® software packages for CFD modeling and the Aspen Custom Modeler® software for process simulation.
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