Packing of Hollow Cylinders (Catalysts) in a Tube: a DEM Simulation

Packing of Hollow Cylinders (Catalysts) in a Tube: a DEM Simulation

In many occasion in process industries (i.e. chemical engineering), we need to create a random packed bed of Catalysts. Packing of Hollow Cylinders in reactor (heterogeneous catalytic reaction) tubes can be simulated using DEM. This packing will then be used in other reactor flow simulations for more detailed kinetics, heat…

Rotating Drum with Non-Spherical Particles: A DEM Simulation

Rotating Drum with Non-Spherical Particles: A DEM Simulation

Many industrial processes like granulation, particle coating, bio-mass pyrolysis, dryers contain rotating drum as a part of their processes. its rotation cause a gentle motion of particles. So, this gentle motion brings particle to the bed surface, where particles avalanche from top to bottom. The drum wall pulls particles up…