TOPIC AREA 2 - COMPUTATIONAL ENERGY SCIENCES; Sub-Topic 2.2: Process/Equipment Co-Simulation of Advanced Fossil Energy Plants

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	Federal Grant Title:	TOPIC AREA 2 - COMPUTATIONAL ENERGY SCIENCES; Sub-Topic 2.2: Process/Equipment Co-Simulation of Advanced Fossil Energy Plants
	CFDA Number:	81.089
	CFDA Description:	Fossil Energy Research and Development
	Federal Agency Name:	National Energy Technology Laboratory
	Category of Funding Activity:	Energy
	Category Explanation:	Information not provided
	Opportunity Category:	Discretionary
	Funding Opportunity Number:	DE-PS26-08NT00440-2B
	Document Type:	Grants Notice
	Funding Instrument Type:	Cooperative Agreement
	Posted Date:	Apr 18, 2008
	Creation Date:	Apr 18, 2008
	Original Closing Date for Applications:	May 29, 2008
	Current Closing Date for Applications:	Information not provided
	Archive Date:	Aug 18, 2008
	Expected Number of Awards:	Information not provided
	Estimated Total Program Funding:	Information not provided
	Federal Grant Award Ceiling:	$900,000
	Federal Grant Award Floor:	$400,000
	Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement:	Yes

Applicants Eligible for this Grant: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"
Additional Information on Eligibility: Information not provided
Grant Description: NOTE: This descriptive area provides an overview of Technical Topic 2: Sub-Topic 2.2 Process/Equipment Co-Simulation of Advanced Fossil Energy Plants 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 SUB-TOPIC. Please scroll to the bottom of this page to access the Funding Opportunity Master Announcement. TOPIC AREA 2 - COMPUTATIONAL ENERGY SCIENCES Sub-Topic 2.2: Process/Equipment Co-Simulation of 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 requested for the development of detailed CFD models of chemical looping combustion and gasification systems for solid fuels such as coal. These models should describe the advanced solid fuel and air reactors used in chemical looping systems. These models should be used in generating a process model/CFD model co-simulation of the overall chemical looping process. Applicatons are also sought to create process and component co-simulations of advanced carbon capture technologies. These simulations should combine detailed CFD-based simulations of carbon capture technologies, for example, membrane separation and/or solid sorbent-based systems, together with a process simulation of the overall carbon capture system. Applicants are encouraged, but not required, to consider the use of the NETL Advanced Process Engineering Co-Simulator (APECS) as the platform for combining FLUENT® and/or COMSOL Multiphysics® CFD models with Aspen Plus® process simulations of the carbon capture system. If the delivered model is not capable of being plugged into the APECS platform, then NETL intends to take the necessary actions to incorporate this capability into the model. NETL also intends to put the model in the public domain as a stand-alone product. For background information on this topic and the technology behind the NETL APECS software used for these simulations, please reference the following link: http://www.netl.doe.gov/onsite_research/Facilities/apecs.html
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