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Industry: Machinery & Industrial Equipment

  • Element Design – Urban Heat Centers for the Energy Transition

    Challenge Decarbonize heat networks by using air-source heat pumps (ASHP). Identify the risk of placing utility-scale air source heat pumps in a dense urban environment. Reduce the risk of cold nuisance for pedestrians. Simulate complex urban airflow, including temperature and pressure profiles. Review rejected air dispersion into the ambient environment and mitigate the risk of…

  • GV Filtri – Optimizing Industrial Basket Filters

    Challenge Optimize the size and cost of industrial basket-type filters while keeping pressure losses low without conducting field tests using a simulation-only approach. Validate simulation results with actual performance data. Bring simulation in-house to the engineering team and demonstrate its value to the wider engineering team. Results Able to quickly optimize, validate, and define new…

  • FanMechanics – Redesigning Centrifugal Fan Impellers

    Challenge Improve the performance of an existing centrifugal fan. Maintain power output whilst increasing flow efficiency. Evaluate multiple impeller and inlet cone CAD variants. Results Reduced simulation times from days to hours. Redesigned the impeller and inlet of an existing centrifugal fan casing. Increased flow without increasing power output. FanMechanics, operating under the registered business…

  • Elgin Separation Solutions – Simulating Industrial Water Intakes

    Challenge Simulating complex geometric patterns for water intake screens. Calibrating the porous media boundary condition to reflect actual geometry. Designing critical infrastructure with no prototyping stage. Results Designs tailored to each individual project. Optimized performance to limit hydraulic losses through the system. Faster design and delivery of critical equipment. Founded in 1864 in Elgin, Illinois,…

  • KREYENBORG – Decarbonizing Food Processing Technology

    Challenge KREYENBORG is a leading provider of state-of-the-art food safety solutions using infrared light technology as its core element. The Food Safety Infrared Rotary Drum (FS-IRD) is suitable not only for sterilization but also for pasteurization, roasting, drying, coating, and stock protection of foodstuffs such as nut seeds, spices, and herbs. Food processing machines are…

  • Stela – Verifying Industrial Drying Technology

    Challenge Based in Germany, Stela is a global leader in large industry and utility-scale drying technology. In pursuit of its goal to develop energy-efficient drying technology, Stela’s engineering team was looking to simulate and optimize the heat distribution, air mixing efficacy, and mixing ratio of heated air to ambient air of its industrial belt dryer.…

  • Zenito – Mineral Processing Plant Design

    About Zenito Zenito is an independent engineering consulting firm for mineral processing plants and infrastructure projects. It comprises a group of professional engineers with considerable and varied experience in the mining industry specializing in the design of mineral processing plants and associated infrastructure. Every project is different, and Zenito’s boutique engineering team lends itself to…

  • Aquabio – Optimizing Industrial Water Treatment

    Industrial Water Treatment Aquabio is a specialist company dedicated to designing and building anaerobic industrial water treatment plants. They don’t operate plants but are involved in project management, commissioning, and testing. Based in Worcestershire, UK, with about 35 employees, they have completed 20-30 projects across the country. Key personnel like Alex Meredith contribute to plant…

  • Vebu – Revolutionizing Food Processing Robotics

    Autocado — Accelerating Food Processing In partnership with Chipotle, Vebu has unveiled a new avocado processing bot called Autocado. This device automates the cutting, coring, and scooping of avocados before they are hand-mashed to create the restaurant’s signature guacamole. Chipotle crew members will simply load a case of avocados (~25 lbs) into the device and,…

  • ANTHC – Simulation for Critical Infrastructure

    About Anthc The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) is a non-profit tribal health organization designed to meet the unique health needs of Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Alaska. ANTHC provides the highest quality health services for Alaska Native people at the Alaska Native Medical Center and across Alaska through training, health…

  • Bühler – Deploying Simulation Company-Wide

    Challenge Bühler aims to enable more engineers to simulate earlier and make informed design decisions, whilst controlling overheads and managing quality. Challenges include a globally distributed workforce, multiple CAD systems, varying degrees of simulation knowledge, and more. Bühler also has a goal of a 60% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in its operations by 2030.…

  • Guerriero Romani – Accelerating New Pump Designs

    Simulating for 40 Years Guerreiro Romani uses SimScale for a variety of pump simulations, ranging from cooling pumps to submersible pumps. The objectives of each project are different and in this case study, we will look at two of them. Guerreiro Romani first adopted SimScale in November 2018 while looking for a cloud-native computational fluid…