Chemical Process Industry

The chemical and processing industries provide the building blocks for many products. By using large amounts of heat and energy to physically or chemically transform materials, these industries help meet the world's most fundamental needs for food, shelter and health, as well as products that are vital to such advanced technologies as computing, telecommunications and biotechnology.

These industries face major challenges to meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of the future generations in the face of increasing industrial competitiveness. This translates into the need to make processes much more energy efficient, safer and more flexible, and to reduce emissions to meet the many competitive challenges within a global economy.

The recent advances in modeling capabilities, combined with the scalable parallel performance of low-cost hardware, and the powerful geometry and meshing tools in the ANSYS software open up many new opportunities to achieve major new benefits in the complex and demanding world of chemical and process industries.

ANSYS plays an important role including:

• 'Scale-up' to extrapolate a process from laboratory and pilot plant scale, to the industrial plant scale, which may require many millions of dollars invested
• Process intensification, to combine different processes into smaller compact and efficient units, instead of treating them as individual processes
• Retrofitting, to upgrade a plant to become more efficient, within the many constraints of the existing footprint of the plant

Deformation plot for a mixing vessel
caused by the internal pressure of the fluids