The Specialized Engineering Analysis and Design (SEAD) group’s activities focus on providing practical engineering solutions to complex problems. A fundamental understanding of the underlying physics is typically required to understand the issues and develop a solution. Engineering knowledge, experimental skills, plus advanced analysis tools such as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Finite Element Analysis (FEA) are generally used to execute projects.
In general, the SEAD group’s expertise is applied to:
- Process and technology development
- Problem solving, plant de-bottlenecking, and process optimisation
- Custom design of process gas and water handling systems
- Thermal-mechanical-electrical analysis and design
- Complex structural analysis of systems and equipment, e.g., dynamic loads, high pressure
Advanced monitoring deals with the global aspect of a furnace: on-line heat balance and furnace wall integrity along with complex or difficult to assess monitoring.
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Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is an advanced numerical modeling method that solves the governing equations for fluid flow, heat transfer and mass transfer, and is a powerful engineering tool for predicting heat and fluid flow in real applications.
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Finite Element Analysis (FEA) program ANSYS is used to model and analyze thermal interaction between refractories and steel structures, modelling the solidification process of molten metals, non-linear modelling, pressure vessel design and concrete growth.
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A logistics-based model is described by how entities flow through the system of interest, compete for resources, get processed, wait in storage areas or buffers, get transported, and undergo various other activities.
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Following detailed three-dimensional
computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling using a state-of-the-art software package a remediation
concept was developed. More>
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 Be Award of Excellence Innovations in Metals and Mining
Bentley Systems
Barrick Gold's Pueblo Viejo mining project, Dominican Republic
2008
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Specialized Engineering Analysis & Design
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