References

• Calculations for the regulatory approval (VVD, PV Elite, FEA)
• Fatigue assessment for pressure vessels
• EN 13445, ASME Section VIII
• Piping, valves, flanges, gaskets, vessel skirts and stand frames
• Seismic study for the pressure equipment

• Electric motors and generators
• Rotor dynamics
• Rollers, drums, mills, crushers, screw conveyors
• Mixers, pumps, rotors and impellers

• Steel structures, lattices, bridges, platforms, staircases, banisters/railings
• Silos, containers, tanks
• Wind load, snow load, transportation loads, erection loads
• Simulation of loads during manufacturing, assembly and installation
• Lifting assessment, lifting attachments
• Accidental loads, earthquakes / seismic loads
• Elevated temperature, thermal shock, creep
• Foundation loads
• Dam gates, staircases, exhibition stands
• Heat exchangers, air ducts, thin sheet structures

• Rotating machinery
• Vehicles, machinery, railway applications
• Aerial platforms, Cranes, booms, loaders
• Machine parts, shafts
• Wood processing equipment
• Ore mining and ore extraction equipment
• Thermal stresses, low cycle fatigue
• Heat exchangers, heat accumulators
• Chain conveyors, screw conveyors

• Eigenmode analysis / eigenfrequency analysis
• Frequency response analysis
• Seismic analysis
• PSD-analysis
• Damper simulations, test bench simulations
• Transient dynamic analysis / time history analysis
• Pressure shocks, ATEX, impulses, collisions, explicit analysis
• Explosions, shocks
• Rotor dynamics

• Metallic materials (high strength steel, aluminum, cast iron, copper, titanium)
• Polymers, recycled plastics (time-dependent, temperature-dependent and strain-rate dependent material properties, ageing)
• Rubber, elastomers, graphite gaskets
• Timber, glulam, plywood, Kerto® LVL, logs, CLT
• Wood screw joints, glued joints
• Wire ropes, cables
• Glass-fiber composites, biocomposites
• Anchoring & concrete attachments

• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Consequences of incorrect usage
• Consequences of incorrect installation
• Effects of residual stresses
• Crack propagation analysis (service life of a cracked structure)
• Fatigue cracks, stress corrosion cracks
• Stress Corrosion Cracking, SCC
• Wear, thinning, corrosion
• Repair welds, cladding welds, coating
• Repair plan, usage recommendations/limitations

• Ships / vessels / boats
• Floating structures / boat piers / buoys
• Propellers, propeller shafts
• Wind energy applications
• Wave power plants, tidal power plants

Thermal management of electronics and casings

• Thermal management of cabinets and containers
• Cooling of electronics and casings
• Heat sinks

Thermal insulation

• Heat losses of multilayer structures
• Periodic and transient temperature variation
• Components of district heating and domestic water systems, heat and pressure losses

HVAC

• Heating and ventilation of structures
• Large rooms and large heat loads
• Floor heating
• Heat losses of buildings and structures

Thermal management of machinery, devices and vessels

• Heat generation in shock-absorber
• Thermal management of a boiler

Geothermal wells

• Geothermal district heating well
• Heat storage and profitability

Thermal management of rotating devices

• Lubrication and heat transfer of journal bearings
• Motors, generators and other rotary machines
• Oil flow within gear box

Calculation of temperature fields for structural analysis

• Transient and stationary temperature fields for structures
• Thermal gradients for failure analysis

Heat transfer analysis tools

• Tailored Excel-templates for product heat loss calculations
• Macros to solve more complicated systems within Excel

Pressure loss tools

• Pressure losses of components
• Pressure losses of pipings

Material properties and combustion

• Tools to define state of flow material by using correlations and material property tables
• Estimation of combustion

Visualization

• Visualization of results in a clear way
• Plotting macros

Gas-Gas heat exchangers

• Flue gas heat exchanger
• Heat exchanger efficiency

Water-steam heat exchangers

• Condensation within ducts
• Temperature distribution

Reactors and process components

• Liquid-gas reactors
• Mixing and residence time
• Performance of channels and their pressure losses

Multicomponent suspensions

• Slurry and sand
• Pulp suspensions
• Pulp mass
• Sedimentation and separation

Mixers

• Dynamic loads on mixers
• Mixing performance
• Non-Newtonian fluids

Nozzles

• Development and optimization of mixing nozzles
• Development of sparger-nozzles
• Development of spray-nozzles

Cyclones

• Hydrocyclone development
• Gas cyclones and particle separation

Dust removal and pneumatic transport

• Dust removal devices
• Performance of solid material transport channels

Erosion due to particles

• Erosion due to slurry flow
• Erosion due to dilute particle flow (DEM/CFD)

Erosion in droplet flow and cavitating flow

• Erosion of a nozzle
• Cavitation damage

Noise control

• Estimation of aeroacoustic noise
• Finding the source of noise

Poison gas control

• Emission of poison gas and its concentration
• Ventilation of leaked poison gas from the system

Tracking of aerosols and particles

• Distribution of particles and droplets in processes
• Droplet and particle distributions on surfaces

Tracking and concentration of gaseous components in processes

• Uniformity of concentration field on surfaces
• Ensuring quality of mixing and finding out poorly ventilated locations

Distribution of flow in pipings and manifolds

• Performance of manifolds
• Distribution of flow in branches with different pressure losses

Pressure losses in porous materials, piles, bundles, stacks and sieves

• Improving the geometry and guiding the flow
• Suction strainers
• Pulp cakes and other porous masses
• Analysis of flow in large and complex systems
• Flow through stacks, bundles and other material piles

Valves

• Pressure loss and performance of valves

Filters

• Advanced and complex filters
• Residence time in filters
• Uniformity of flow in filters and optimal usage of filter volume

Gaskets and seals

• Development of labyrinth seals
• Sealing with flow

Oscillation of pipelines

• Finding the source of oscillation
• Pressure strokes

Cavitation

• Finding locations of cavitation
• Reducing cavitation risk and mitigation

Wind loads

• Static wind load
• Dynamic wind loads

Other pressure loads and strokes

• Design and development of devices operating with pressurized flow
• Controlled pressure strokes and control of pressure loads

• Load specifications
• Things to be taken into account when ensuring structural integrity
• Process operating conditions and parameters
• Process improvements
• Optimization

• What do you want to find out by measuring
• Measurement planning and interpretation
• Simulation model calibration
• Simulation of the measurement instruments

• Particle dynamics (DEM)
• Multibody dynamics (MBD)
• Explicit analysis
• Coupled analysis