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    bigbadwolfe

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    Updated: Oct 26, 2024
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    Hello ,
    I need to use the right software to model/simulate a design of an air-atomizing (attemperator) unit in the outlet of a heat recovery pipe
    The basic design of the system is that it will consists of eleven of the nozzles arranged in a ring inside the pipe
    This design is for a final year project, and I must find someway to show that this design will work (hence the need for the software)
    The idea of the system is that the air water atomizing (attemperator) will remove heat from the gas causing it to have a smaller volume which will increase
    The mass flow of gas and hence move more gas, this will in turn boost production


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    Regards,
    Randall Seepersad
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  • debu

    Member • Sep 3, 2009

    @bigbadwolfe: If you have a clearly defined model, you could use #-Link-Snipped-# in conjunction with #-Link-Snipped-# to simulate your attemperator.
    In the company where I work, we regularly use it for simulating various fluid dynamics along with the mechanical, and hydraulic systems in the same model.
    Hope this Helps.

    Regards,

    Debu 😀

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  • bigbadwolfe

    Member • Sep 3, 2009

    trying to stay away from matlab any other suggestions????
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  • debu

    Member • Sep 3, 2009

    In your PM you wrote... (i'm posting my reply here, so that other CEans can add their views and replies) 😀
    Hello Debu,
    Thank you for taking the time to reply
    i was trying to stay away from matlab because i find it difficult to use.

    i have a definite basic design, i tried to attach it but no luck,please send me your email address and i will forward it to you

    do you have any other suggestions???
    someone told me i could use autodesk inventor.....
    but i dont know

    regards,
    randy
    @randy: Autodesk Inventor would be useless for anything else except mechanical simulation. In your design to correctly simulate gas/fluid movement you would need to get the equations for simulating fluid turbulence, probably something like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier-Stokes_equations" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Navier Stokes Equations</a> and maybe the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_Boltzmann_methods" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Lattice Boltzmann Methods</a> methods for putting the particles on the grid. I doubt that any thing apart form MatLab could handle so much parallel computing. You could use SimScape to build a 3D model to visually show the simulation. First step would be to have a very clearly defined mathematical model for the entire simulation.
    Hope this helps,

    Regards,

    Debu 😀
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