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Pharmaceutical
processing equipment

Improving the performance of pharmaceutical processing
equipment by utilizing particle simulation

19 Oct 2017 Blog Mining

Scaling and optimizing grinding performance

Grinding processes in large mills use a lot of energy, resulting in high operating costs. Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines, ranked as the top institution in the world for mineral and mining engineering, are using particle simulation to study grinding...

21 Sep 2017 Blog Mills and Crushers

Predicting particle breakage with contact-based Energy Spectra

Quite often DEM users are interested in predicting particle breakage, either to promote it (for example, spending less energy in comminution processes) or to avoid it (such as preventing tablet break-in coating processes...

15 Aug 2017 Blog Events Simulation Technology

Calibration of a Rocky DEM simulation with ANSYS optiSLang

Every numerical method relies on the accurate choice of models, solver settings, and material parameters in order to be able to mimic real-world behavior. This is not different for Discrete Elements Method (DEM) simulations, where the calibration of the material...

07 Aug 2017 Blog Vibrating Screens

Evaluating vibrating screen efficiency by using the Discrete Element Method

Vibrating screens are equipment used to separate and transport granulated materials in various processes throughout the mining, agriculture, pharmaceutical, food,and chemical industries. Although vibrating screens have many applications, problems such as adhesion...

19 Jul 2017 Blog Simulation Technology

CFD-DEM: How a coupled model can help you better solve solid-fluid flows?

Learn how CFD-DEM coupling provides an intermediate approach between using the sub-particle resolution for the fluid and the mesh resolution for both fluids and particles. Many processes in various industries involve the simultaneous flow of fluids and particles...

12 Jul 2017 Blog Process Equipments Simulation Technology

Why have you not improved the performance of pharmaceutical processing equipment yet?

In the pharmaceutical industry, special types of processing equipment are designed to blend, mix, dry, compact, and coat the various materials that go into making the pills, tablets, powders and other products that are produced...

22 Jun 2017 Blog Simulation Technology

Rocky 4 simulates complex, combined DEM motions directly within its software

One of the major accomplishments in the latest release of Rocky is the new fully integrated motion kernel, which offers support for combined geometry motions. Combined motions were previously only possible by using third-party multi-body dynamics (MBD) simulation...

29 May 2017 Blog Simulation Technology

Rocky 4 with Multi-GPU: which hardware is best for you?

Which vehicle would you rather own: A car or a bus? If you typically only transport yourself and a few others, a car is the better choice—you can easily get everyone across town in one trip, and a car is less expensive to purchase and operate than a bus. But what if...

08 May 2017 Blog Simulation Technology

Rocky 4 achieves major breakthrough in DEM computational speeds with first ever Multi-GPU solver capabilities

The wait is over. With the fourth major release of its 3D Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) particle simulation software, Rocky 4 becomes the very first commercially available DEM solver to offer support for Multi-GPU Processing. This powerful, innovative, and...

05 Apr 2017 Blog Simulation Technology

Applications for modelling particle breakage in Rocky DEM

Particle breakage, also known as particle degradation or fragmentation, is a process that involves splitting a larger particle into several smaller fragments. This can be desirable or undesirable depending on the application. For example, there are many bulk...

08 Feb 2017 Blog Process Equipments Simulation Technology

Analyzing mixing equipment using Rocky DEM

From the powder mixing of pharmaceutical ingredients to fuel particles inside a fluidized bed nuclear reactor; from the mixing of yeast into the dough in a bakery operation to gravel inside an asphalt plant; the search for increasing homogeneity of a system is a...

14 Dec 2016 Blog Chutes

Using DEM to improve transfer chute design

Chutes are commonly adopted in conveying systems as a method of transferring bulk materials from one conveyor belt to another. Although widely used, a poorly designed chute or even the application of a chute out of its original design conditions (higher tonnage...

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