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Chemical engineering
Master the physicochemical phenomena of your processes
Numerical simulation in process engineering has become an essential tool for designing, understanding, and optimizing industrial processes. It makes it possible to significantly improve the performance of facilities, increase yields while reducing development, operating, and experimental costs.
SIMTEC develops multiphysics models using COMSOL Multiphysics® to accurately represent the physical, chemical, and electrochemical phenomena involved in your industrial processes. Our approach provides a better understanding of the interactions between the different mechanisms and helps optimize the operation of your equipment.
Our expertise in process engineering
SIMTEC supports you in modeling a wide range of industrial processes, including:
- Chemical reactors;
- Chemical reactions, reversible or irreversible;
- Reaction kinetics dependent on temperature (Arrhenius law) or other variables such as the concentration of chemical species;
- Electrochemistry;
- Fuel cells;
- Corrosion of materials;
- Mass transfer and diffusion of chemical species;
- Phase changes taking into account enthalpies of phase change (enthalpy method, modified Cp).
These simulations can be carried out in 2D or 3D, under steady-state or transient conditions, and coupled with heat transfer, fluid mechanics, electromagnetism, or structural mechanics to represent the actual behavior of your processes.
Addressing the challenges of industrial processes
Numerical simulation makes it possible to study how a process operates before implementation, compare different solutions, and identify the most influential parameters.
Our calculations can be used, in particular, to optimize:
- the efficiency of an electrolysis cell;
- mixers and mixture homogenization;
- fuel cells;
- mass flows within a device, for example, homogenizing the incident flow on a particulate filter;
- the behavior of materials with respect to corrosion;
- the overall performance of industrial processes.
A multiphysics approach for complex processes
Industrial processes involve strongly coupled phenomena: chemical reactions, mass transfer, flows, heat transfer, electrochemistry, and interactions with materials.
Thanks to its expertise in multiphysics simulation, SIMTEC develops models capable of simultaneously solving all these phenomena in order to obtain accurate, reliable results that can be directly used for design, optimization, or R&D.
Our models contribute to a better understanding of physicochemical phenomena in order to improve the yields, reliability, and performance of industrial processes.