Waste-to-Fuels Technology Enabled by GPU and Multi-GPU Simulation
, CPFD
, CPFD, LLC
Barracuda Virtual Reactor, powered by NVIDIA GPUs, enables sustainability technologies that are changing our planet for the better. This two-part industry case study provides an overview of a novel waste-to-fuels technology that is sustainable, versatile, and economically competitive with fossil fuels. First, we'll provide a summary of ThermoChem Recovery International, the United States' digitization journey with CPFD Software’s Virtual Reactor, culminating in the commercial conversion of municipal solid waste to jet fuel. In the second half, we overlay our parallel development and acceleration path resulting in speedups of over 600x over the project period. We'll present ongoing R&D results including multi-GPU computing. Last, we'll discuss the practical meaning of the speedups; previously intractable problems are now solved in industrially-relevant time scales. We'll highlight extensions of the new multi-GPU technology to other sustainability applications.