Powder Industry
Discretising Hard metals
A numerical and parallelised method to describe a reacting packed bed in contact with a gas phase is being developed by linking material and computer sciences. Packed bed processes...
Simulation of WO3 reduction in H2
Simulation of WO3 reduction in H2 Reduction of WO3 to tungsten in a hydrogen atmosphere is described by well-known reaction schemes, for which temperature and reaction progress is...
Cement production
In cement production, direct measurements of thermal and chemical variables are often unfeasible as a consequence of aggressive environments, moving parts and physical inaccessibility, therefore, prediction models are essential...
Heat and Mass transfer
Resolved heat transfer to walls in rotary furnaces
Heat is transferred from the inner walls of rotary furnaces towards the granular feedstock by radiation and conduction ; at the same time, inner and outer walls experience heat exchange with...
Heat loss through packed bed reactor walls’
Predicting heat loss through packed bed reactor walls' by Conjugate Heat Transfer (Project under development at LuXDEM). A large number of engineering applications involve granular material or a particulate...
Heat transfer in Packed-beds
Packed bed reactors dominate a broad range of engineering applications. In a packed bed reactor, heat is transferred from the solid particles to the gas flow stream through the...
eXtended Discrete Element Method
Introduction to XDEM
The extended discrete element method (XDEM) is a numerical technique that extends the dynamics of granular material or particles as described through the classical discrete element method (DEM) (Cundall...