Prof. Dr. Marcio L. de Souza-Santos

CeSFaMB™/CSFMB^©

CSFMB^© (Registered at the US Copyright Office, Registration No. TXu 1-610-665, Jan. 21, 2009) previously called CSFMB, with commercial designation CeSFaMB™(Registered at the US Trade Mark Office under No. 4,032,025, Sep. 27, 2011) is a comprehensive simulator of the following type of equipment:

• Boilers
• Furnaces or incinerators
• Gasifiers
• Dryers
• Pyrolysers
• Shale retorting reactors

It simulates the above equipment operating under the following regimes:

• Bubbling fluidized bed
• Circulating fluidized bed
• Updraft and downdraft moving (also known as Fixed) beds
• Updraft and downdraft entrained beds

 References

“The software CSFMB (CeSFaMB™) has been applied for operation verification and designing gasifiers for more than a year by the R&D team of VSE (Vale Solutions in Energy) with remarkable performance. Constant internal validation of this simulator has been made with incredible correlation between real and simulated data, which give reliability to the entire design/operation process in real gasification plants. This is the reason why CSFMB is the main tool at VSE for future gasifiers’ designs for both coal and biomass.”

Dr. Roger Riehl, Manager – Gasification Technological Development, VSE - Vale Energy Solutions.

“I can confirm that CSFMB is being utilized at NETL, as is the supporting documentation, including both versions of your book.  We are very impressed with the work you have done to develop this valuable tool and, as discussed when visiting, are evaluating it as a potential application within the C3M environment.”

Paul E. King, PhD
National Energy Technology Laboratory
Albany, OR, USA

"Sevaral benefits can be found during the application of CeSFaMB software for coal gasification process in Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Science. They are summarized as follows:

• The detailed information, including process temperature, components as well as pressure distribution in the reactor chamber are provided and thery the important parameters for coal gasification process analysis and design.
• The feedback for the user enquires as well as software maintainance are excellent and helpful.
• We are getting lots of benefits from the updating of the software in operation function and algorithm.
• We are sure that more research work and results can be achieved with the further application of the software"

          Dr. Xun Wang - Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

A publication at Progress in Energy and Combustion Science  classifies CSFMB as Advances since it includes all sub-models related to combustion and gasification processes and has been validated for many different operations of pilot and industrial equipment.

A recent paper describes the benefits of using CeSFaMB for optimization and design: Dyakov L.V., Baron G.V., Bram S., Contino F., De Ruyck J., Experimental measurements and modeling using CeSFaMB^TM software of the product gas components on the 2MW_TH Gasifier Plant, Energy Research Journal, 5(1), 26-32, 2014. DOI: 10.3844/erjsp.2014.26.32

 

Many institutions have or are applying CeSFaMB™ or previous versions. In alphabetical order, they are:

1.     Auburn University, USA

2.     Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland

3.     Delft University of Technology, Holland

4.     Dynamis Engineering, Brazil

5.     Excellence Group in Thermal and Distributed Generation, Brazil

6.     Heavy Mechanical Complex, Pakistan

7.     Institute of Gas Technology (IGT), Chicago, Illinois, USA

8.     Institute of Technology Madras, Chemical Engineering, India

9.     Institute of Technology Madras, Mechanical Engineering, India

10.  Institute of Technological Research, Brazil

11.  Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy and Power, China

12.  Korea Electric Power Research Institute, Korea

13.  Middle East Technical University, Turkey

14.  MIMSAN Industry Boilers, Turkey

15.  National Energy Technology Laboratory, USA

16.  National University of Colombia, Colombia

17.  North West University, South Africa

18.  Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

19.  PETROBRAS (Brazilian Petroleum), Research Center, Brazil

20.  Pontifical Bolivarian University, Colombia

21.  Process Engineering Services, Milan, Italy

22.  Rentech Energy Technology Center, USA

23.  Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

24.  SATC/CTCL – Clean Coal Technological Center, Brazil

25.  State University of South Dakota, USA

26.  Sundrop Fuels, USA

27.  Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

28.  Thermax, India

29.  University of Antioquia, Colombia

30.  University of California at Riverside, USA

31.  University of California at Davis, USA

32.  University of Campinas, Brazil

33.  University of Rio de Janeiro, Chemical Engineering, Brazil

34.  University of Rio de Janeiro, Mechanical Engineering, Brazil

35.  Vale Energy Solutions (VSE), Vale Corporation, Brazil

36.     Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

IPES^©

Industrial Plant and Equipment Simulator is able to predict the operational conditions of single equipment or entire units. Provides the temperature, pressure, composition, and important physical-chemical properties of all streams linking the various units in a power or industrial plant by performing zero-order mass and energy balances (including Second Law of Thermodynamics as well Exergy Analysis) around each unit. It also contains a large Data Bank to estimate physical and chemical properties of involved species. In addition, provides the overall 1^st and 2^nd Law efficiencies of the simulated process.

The following equipment may be included in the industrial process simulations:

• Combustors
• Compressors
• Chemical Reactors
• Heat Exchangers
• Mixers
• Pumps
• Reformers
• Splitters
• Turbines
• Valves

  THERMODYNAMICS I (EM360)

TEXTBOOKS

·       M. J. Moran and H. N. Shapiro, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, John Wiley and Sons, any edition. Download:

 https://www.academia.edu/21431299/FUNDAMENTALS_OF_ENGINEERING_THERMODYNAMICS_Eighth_Edition 



 DOUBTS

Should be addressed to  the PED or PAD Student 

  
Others to Prof. Dr. Marcio de Souza-Santos (dss@unicamp.br) 

Students that have not attended at least 25% of the classes will not be approved, no matter the grades achieved during tests.

The evaluation would be according to the following formula: 

A = SQRT( T1 * T2)

where  Ti  are the two best grades among 3; with the Final Exam as one of those. 
During classes, 0.5 points will be credited to the students who manage to solve the proposed problems. The credits will be added to the grade at the next Test. 

CHRONOGRAM

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TEXTBOOK

Incropera F. P., Dewitt D. P., Bergman T. L., Lavine A. S., Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 7th ed., J. Wiley & Sons, New Jersey  

Auxiliary text:

de Souza-Santos, M. L., Analytical and Approximate Methods Applied to Transport Phenomena, CRC Press, New York, 2007



DOUBTS

Should be addressed to :

-  PED Student 

-  PAD Student

  
Others to Prof. Dr. Marcio de Souza-Santos:  dss@unicamp.br   

Students that have not attended at least 25% of the classes will not be approved, no matter the grades achieved during tests.

The evaluation would be according to the following formula: 

A = SQRT( T1 * T2)

where  Ti  are the two best grades among 3; with the Final Exam as one of those. 
During classes, 0.5 points will be credited to the students who manage to solve the proposed problems. The credits will be added to the grade at the next Test. 

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Modeling and Simulation of Combustion & Gasification (IM266)

The evaluation would be according to the following formula: 

A = SQRT( T1 * T2)

where “Ti” are grades od 2 Tests 

During classes, 0.5 points will be credited to the students who manage to solve the proposed problems. The credits will be added to the grade at the next Test.

Students that have not attended at least 25% of the classes will not be approved, no matter the grades achieved during tests.

TEXTBOOK

· de Souza-Santos, M. L., Solid Fuels Combustion and Gasification: Modeling, Simulation, and Equipment Operation, 2^nd Ed. CRC Press, New York, NY, USA, 2010 (ISBN: 978-0-8247-0814-6).

The evaluation would be according to the following formula: 

A = SQRT( T1 * T2)

where “Ti” are grades od 2 Tests 

During classes, 0.5 points will be credited to the students who manage to solve the proposed problems. The credits will be added to the grade at the next Test.

Students that have not attended at least 25% of the classes will not be approved, no matter the grades achieved during tests.

ANALYTICAL AND APPROXIMATE METHODS APPLIED TO TRANSPORT PHENOMENA (IM267)



EVALUATION CRITERIA

The evaluation would be according to the following formula: 

A = SQRT( T1 * T2)

where “Ti” are the two best grades of 3 Tests. The Final Exam would be condidered among those.

During classes, 0.5 points will be credited to the students who manage to solve the proposed problems. The credits will be added to the grade at the next Test.

Students that have not attended at least 25% of the classes will not be approved, no matter the grades achieved during tests.

TEXTBOOK

• de Souza-Santos M. L., Analytical and Approximate Methods Applied to Transport Phenomena, CRC Press, New York, 2007
• Manual to help in calculations and exercises: http://people.math.sfu.ca/~cbm/aands/abramowitz_and_stegun.pdf

DOUBTS

Should be addressed to Prof. Marcio de Souza-Santos (dss@unicamp.br) 

SEE GOOGLE CLASSROOM
 

Levelling on Thermodynamics (IM579)

TEXTBOOK

M. J. Moran and H. N. Shapiro, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, John Wiley and Sons, any edition. Download: https://www.academia.edu/21431299/FUNDAMENTALS_OF_ENGINEERING_THERMODYNAMICS_Eighth_Edition 

DOUBTS

Should be addressed to Prof. Marcio de Souza-Santos (dss@unicamp.br)

EVALUATION CRITERIA

The evaluation would be according to the following formula: 

A = SQRT( T1 * T2)

where “Ti” are the two best grades of 3 Tests. The Final Exam would be condidered among those.

During classes, 0.5 points will be credited to the students who manage to solve the proposed problems. The credits will be added to the grade at the next Test.

Students that have not attended at least 25% of the classes will not be approved, no matter the grades achieved during tests.

CHRONOGRAM

SEE GOOGLE CLASSROOM

SEE GOOGLE CLASSROOM