Energy

For many years, engineers and designers in the coal industry have trusted engineering simulation for power generation technologies from ANSYS to make coal production systems and processes both purer and safer. ANSYS suite of software endorses coal related applications by providing simulation for power generation technologies including— heat transfer and exchange, combustion, chemical reaction, emission control and reduction, CO2 separation and capture. The applications provide equipment for coal mining, development of mine ventilation and safety systems, burners and furnaces, steam generator, pollution reduction (including Sox, Nox & Mercury) and control systems, engineering SCR and SNCR systems, SO2 scrubber, gasification, coal to liquid, and chemical looping.

Since its inception more than 40 years ago, ANSYS has been inventing and developing simulation solutions that are best suited to focus on engineering and regulatory concerns and standards in the global nuclear industry. Today, solutions from ANSYS are implemented across the entire engineering and design process of the nuclear power lifecycle: mining and processing, plant engineering and construction, fuel systems, thermo-hydraulic systems, balance of power, spent fuel disposal and regulatory compliance.

Specific applications for ANSYS engineering simulation software include CFD for nuclear reactor safety applications,structural mechanics for nuclear power design: seismic studies, design of reinforced concrete materials, piping and pressure vessels, welding processes, components, stress and fatigue analysis, containment, nuclear reactor safety,drop testing. Secondary applications are CFD for nuclear applications such as boiling and heat transfer systems, steam generation spent-fuel processing. ANSYS SCADE is used for wide spectrum aspects of instrumentation & control including reactor protection systems, human system interfaces and safety systems.

To address the rigorous quality requirements of the nuclear industry, ANSYS has well-structured and well-documented development processes and authenticated software releases. The comprehensive, best-in- class software solutions comply with NQA-1 standards for developing software for the nuclear industry, including ANSYS Workbench, ANSYS Fluent, ANSYS CFX and ANSYS Mechanical.

Engineering simulation for environment stewardship from ANSYS facilitates energy engineers to create and evaluate virtual models as well as analyze more design options and what-if scenarios than ever before. Further insight and understanding gained from these studies lead to steadfast and trusted technologies that use resources more efficiently, minimize pollutants, and reduce effluents and other waste – to avoid oversizing and over specification.

Since ANSYS offers a full range of Multiphysics proficiencies, equipment designers and engineers can take a system-level approach to their environmental challenges, creating broad-based simulations that integrate complex fluid mechanics with structural, thermal, electromagnetic and reaction physics.

Engineering simulation solutions in general and CFD for air pollution technologies and CFD for water and wastewater technologies from ANSYS are used to tackle environmental challenges in various industries, including, oil and gas water and wastewater, power generation, chemical and petrochemical processing, mining and material processing, and clean coal technologies such as gasification, carbon separation and sequestration. ANSYS solutions can assist in modeling and designing these and other environmental applications to assist companies achieve their sustainability and environment management goals:

• Air and water pollution control equipment.
• Filters, cyclones, bag collectors, separators and precipitators.
• Recycling and waste management systems.
• Spillways, rivers, estuaries and erosion control systems.
• Fish dams, storm weirs and flood control technologies.
• Chillers, scrubbers and spray towers.
• Exhaust plumes and pollutant dispersion systems.
• Waste reduction, treatment and incineration technologies.
• Effluent discharge systems and runoff in waterways.

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Global demand for oil and gas means enhanced production in offshore, small and mature fields; more remote, deeper and reserves in extreme climate as well as innovative and groundbreaking resources. Generating oil and gas from these resources breeds challenges that require advanced technologies to soar yield as well as reduce CAPEX and OPEX costs — all while effectively managing production during the life of the field.

With rising concerns for the environment, the industry is investing to minimize its operational footprint, greenhouse gas emissions and water usage; it is also aspiring to accelerate accident prevention and response. ANSYS oil and gas simulation software is facilitating companies to model, authenticate, and provide more reliable equipment for drilling, production, transport, process and refine at reduced cost.

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Engineering simulation for wind energy solution from ANSYS provides an amalgamated environment designed to expound the fundamental mathematical equations related to structural mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermal science, vibration analysis, electromagnetic studies and acoustics science. The technology also evaluates the interdependency of underlying physics in Multiphysics simulations and system design, including embedded software for control systems that are paramount for wind energy.

Hydropower energy organizations have utilized the ANSYS computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools developed specifically for rotating systems, as well as for structural mechanics, electromagnetic solutions and system design, including instrumentation and control. Such simulations aid in optimizing power generation efficiencies and day-to-day performance of hydropower plants by evaluating their operations in a virtual environment. The process leads to faster, cost-effective improvements.

Implemented in individual turbines and intake valves as well as entire plants, spillways and dam design, ANSYS solutions bring a full spectrum of physics to bear in designing the intricate workings of hydropower facilities. Powerful engineering simulation tools from ANSYS help engineers as they design new facilities, enhance or refurbish existing plants, and perform general service and maintenance work.

ANSYS solutions are globally helping engineers generate innovative technologies that enhnace both the energy production and pollution reduction of novel bio-power resources. ANSYS engineering simulation for biofuel & biomass suite of software provide a full spectrum of Multiphysics proficiencies — including fluid mechanics, structural analysis, thermal, combustion and chemical reaction modeling, processing equipment design, and the evaluation of sophisticated electronic control and power systems.

In the biofuels segment, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools from ANSYS are allowing engineers to develop new processes and equipment to convert sugar, starch or cellulose biomaterial into fuels as well as to develop large-scale systems analyses or improve performance of individual components.

In the biomass industry sector, ANSYS solutions are enabling optimize traditional combustion of biomass waste streams, gasification and energy production from crops specifically grown for use as energy. In time, as engineers create ongoing innovative solutions, biomass is expected to become much more cost-effective, expanding its role in the renewable energy mix. Biofuel & biomass systems design also leverage ANSYS control and system design proficiencies enhancing the performance of many biomass processes and components.

Solar energy engineers are working to leverage the full power of sunlight by developing innovative processes to produce more reliable and cost-effective solar panels that can combat variations in supporting temperature, wind forces, hail and other airborne debris impacts. They are progressively using solar panel applications for rooftop installations, large-scale concentrated solar power (CSP) plants and even to power mobile devices.

ANSYS engineering simulation for solar energy solutions are implemented throughout the solar energy industry to simulate material processing, manufacturing, panel and component installation across a wide spectrum of solar energy technologies, including Si-based systems, CdTe thin films, CIG systems, ribbons, glass substrate deposition technologies and edge-defined growth (EDG) solar cells.

With ANSYS simulation tools, you can re-design and forecast the electrical, thermal and fluid capability of a single full cell membrane or the entire stack and the system. Powerful computational fluid dynamics (CFD) tools from ANSYS enable you to streamline both cell- and stack-level testing, using numerical modeling to achieve optimized fuel cell designs with superior power generation rates, reliability and durability. Simulation tools from ANSYS engineering simulation for fuel cells design also assist with evaluation and the role of thermal, structural, and electromechanical stresses on cell and stack performance.

Engineers use electronic and fuel cell system design modeling solutions to design electrical circuits, related electronic control systems and perform system-level modeling of the full cell. Built for power, speed and accuracy, simulation tools from ANSYS help fuel cell designers and engineers to re- design and upgrade performance including: Electrochemistry, Liquid water management, Liquid water flow in channels, Membrane-electrode assembly (MEA) and Potential fields.

Global demand for oil and gas means enhanced production in offshore, small and mature fields; more remote, deeper and reserves in extreme climate as well as innovative and groundbreaking resources. Generating oil and gas from these resources breeds challenges that require advanced technologies to soar yield as well as reduce CAPEX and OPEX costs — all while effectively managing production during the life of the field.

With rising concerns for the environment, the industry is investing to minimize its operational footprint, greenhouse gas emissions and water usage; it is also aspiring to accelerate accident prevention and response. ANSYS oil and gas simulation software is facilitating companies to model, authenticate, and provide more reliable equipment for drilling, production, transport, process and refine at reduced cost.

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