Reaction Design
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| Company type | Privately held |
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| Founded | 1997 |
| Headquarters | San Diego, Calif. |
Key people | Bernie Rosenthal, CEO Albert Hugo-Martinez, Chairman |
| Products | FORTÉ ENERGICO CHEMKIN MODEL FUEL LIBRARY CHEMKIN-CFD |
Number of employees | < 50 |
| Website | reactiondesign.com |
Reaction Design is a San Diego-based developer of combustion simulation software used by engineers to design cleaner burning and fuel-efficient combustors and engines, found in everything from automobiles to turbines for power generation and aircraft propulsion to large diesel engines that use pistons the size of rooms to propel ships locomotives. The technology is also used to model spray vaporization in electronic materials processing applications and predict mixing reactions in chemical plants. The company employs a team of chemical and mechanical engineers, and programmers with expertise that spans multi-scale engineering from the molecule to the production plant. Reaction Design serves more than 400 customers in the commercial, government and academic markets.
History
Reaction Design was founded in 1997 by Dr. David H. Klipstein, formerly senior vice president of technology and marketing at Biosym Technologies (now Accelrys). Reaction Design began with a vision of extending the power of kinetic chemistry simulation to industrial markets, enabling industry to replace costly experimental processes with dynamic and precise software-based simulation.
That same year, Reaction Design became the exclusive developer and licensing partner of CHEMKIN®, originally created at the Sandia National Laboratories for modeling gas-phase and surface chemistry.
In 2005 Reaction Design formed the Model Fuels Consortium (MFC), uniting automakers, fuel companies and leaders of academia behind shared clean technology goals.[1]) That year, the company also hired Bernie Rosenthal as its CEO.[2]
In 2008, Reaction Design introduced two pieces of software. In April 2008, CHEMKIN-PRO was launched for modeling and anlayzing combustion efficiency in gasoline, diesel and emerging alternative fuel engines. [3] ENERGICO was launched in the fall of 2008 as a simulation software package for the gas turbine industry. [4]
Model Fuels Consortium
Reaction Design developed the Model Fuels Consortium in 2005 to address the emerging challenges experienced by the automotive and fuel industry. The Consortium is composed of energy companies, engine manufacturers and academic advisors. Its goal is to enable the design of cleaner-burning, more-efficient engines and fuels by accelerating the development of software tools and databases to streamline and bolster these advances.
Members of the first Consortium joined together to advance the development of the necessary chemical models and software tools that enable predictive simulation of efficiency and pollutant emissions for engine technologies that can use both existing petroleum blends and emerging alternative fuels.
Charter members included Chevron, Dow Chemical Company, L'Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP), Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan, PSA Peugeot Citroën, and Toyota, and academic advisors Chief Technical Advisor Dr. Charlie Westbrook, Prof. Anthony Dean from Colorado School of Mines (formerly of Exxon), Prof. William Green from MIT, Prof. Mitsuo Koshi from University of Tokyo, Prof. Ulrich Maas from Karlsruhe University, and Prof. Hiromitsu Ando from Fukui University, formerly chief executive scientist of Mitsubishi Motors. Charter members were later joined by Conoco-Phillips, Cummins Engine Company, Ford Motor Company, GE Energy, Honda, Mazda, General Motors, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Petrobras, Saudi Aramco, Suzuki and Volkswagen.
Products
FORTÉ: a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package that enables multi-component surrogate fuel models to work with comprehensive spray fluid dynamics.
ENERGICO: a complex system-design simulation tool for solving gas-turbine engineering problems related to emissions reduction and stability.
CHEMKIN: a simulation tool for basic kinetics simulations that use small or reduced reaction mechanism. Other versions include CHEMKIN-PRO for large chemical simulation applications requiring complex mechanisms. CHEMKIN-PRO is specifically designed for chemical kinetics simulations requiring complex reaction mechanisms. Reaction Workbench is an extension to CHEMKIN-PRO that offers fuel formulation and automated mechanism-reduction capabilities specifically created for fuel-combustion engineers and scientists.
Model Fuel Library: a subscription-based library that includes more than 40 fully validated, self-consistent components that can be used to simulate fuel effects in virtually all types of automotive and aircraft engines, as well as engines used for electric power generation. [5]
CHEMKIN-CFD: a plug-in chemistry solver that can be linked to other computational software packages, such as ANSYS’ FLUENT CFD software, to add accuracy, speed and stability to calculations using finite-rate, multi-step reaction kinetics. and CHEMKIN-CFD, a plug-in chemistry solver that is linked to CFD software to add accuracy, speed and stability to calculations using multi-step reaction kinetics.
References
- ^ Millikin, Mike (April 9, 2007). "Model Fuels Consortium Expanding". Green Car Congress. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ^ Bigelow, Bruce V. (June 30, 2009). "Reaction Design Aims for Cleantech Boom with Combustion Simulation Software". Xconomy. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
- ^ Millikin, Mike (April 14, 2008). "Reaction Design to Introduce New Combustion Chemistry Simulation Software". Green Car Congress. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ^ "Reaction Design Launches ENERGICO" (PDF). Fuel Cell. October 1, 2008. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Shuttleworth, Jennifer (November 20, 2012). "Subscription-based model fuel library". Automotive Engineering Online International. Retrieved July 11, 2013.