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Stela Uses SimScale to Verify
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Based in Germany, Stela is a global leader in large industry and utility-scale drying technology. In pursuit of its goal to develop energy-efficient drying technology, Stela’s engineering team was looking to simulate and optimize the heat distribution, air mixing efficacy, and mixing ratio of heated air to ambient air of its industrial belt dryer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Improved drying processes at lower operating costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reduced physical prototype testing with virtual testing in SimScale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Better quantification of failure points from simulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Industrial Drying Technology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Stela<\/a> is a global leader in industrial and utility-scale drying technology. Their main customer bases include mobile and stationary agricultural dryers for drying agri-produce, industrial dryers for various material processing, and food\/fruit drying that serves the worldwide dry-fruit\/vegetable supply chain. The driers typically operate as a conveyor belt arrangement where the material is ventilated with warm air with temperatures typically between 80-120\u00b0 C. Convective drying is the primary mechanism with various fuel sources depending on the client’s requirements and includes gas, oil, low-temperature waste heat from industrial processes, power generation such as combined heat and power plants (CHP), and increasingly, biomass-based fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Julian Kehl is a process engineer at Stela. He and his team of three engineers use SimScale to evaluate design concepts and optimize current designs for new deployments. The goal is always to develop an energy-efficient drying process that is safe and meets their client requirements. They have an established workflow from Solidworks to SimScale and predominantly use CFD solvers. SimScale is used to model the burner and dryer equipment in 3D and simulate the following aspects of their design:<\/p>\n\n\n\n