Applications
Itasca’s expertise with numerical modeling can be applied to an extensive range of equipment processes, including: conveyors and elevators, dust separators, filtration, material processing, bottling, mixers and blenders design, milling, drilling, agglomeration, size segregation, coating, continuous mixers, fluidized beds, grinding, cutting, pneumatic conveying, package conveying, hopper flow, drilling, machine wear, dust and noise production, slurries, screw conveyors, filter design and aging, torque and power consumption prediction, catalytic fixed beds, screw mixers.
For instance, these phenomena come into play when considering design issues for:
Continuous mixers
- Achieving an optimal length of mixer for a targeted rate of mixing
- Determining optimal impeller design and tip speed Froude number to achieve mixing
- Continuous versus batch mixing for multi-component mixing
- Scale-up issues
- Unmixed material loss due to interruptions in operation
Filter media and housings
- Optimal shape of diffuser for the efficient use of the filter
- Head loss versus filtration efficiency
- Filter aging issue to minimize maintenance costs
Cyclone separators
- Particle trajectories and surface pressure distribution
- Prediction of particle collection efficiency and critical carryover diameter
- Total system pressure drop and its response to design changes
Shot peening/Forging
- Hardening of material (base of compressor blade)
Stirred tanks
- Particle trajectories
- Impeller design
- Operating conditions
Packaging and material conveying
Milling