Computer Simulation Helps Design Laboratory Equipment that Accurately Models Production Plant

摘要

Computer simulation makes it possible to design laboratory equipment that accurately models the performance of pilot and production process equip-ment. One of the most difficult jobs in the chemical industry has long been converting processes devel-oped at the bench scale first to pilot plants and then to production plants. With computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Nalco engineers perform paramet-ric simulations on a wide range of reactor designs. By designing a laboratory reactor that matches larger scale processes, particularly in the areas of mixing and shear, they have greatly reduced the amount of time and expense required to scale up processes.