Food and Pharma
In the food and pharmaceutical sector, we can provide the following services.
Fermentation reactors modeling and optimization implementing biochemical reaction kinetics
Reactors mixing: mechanical mixing and gas/liquid mixing
Mixing time modeling and residence time distribution analysis
Cooling, drying and evaporation reactors modeling
Granular, bubbles, droplets, aerosols and spay transport modeling
Precipitation and crystallization
Heat and mass transfer
The complexity of fluids (Newtonian and non-Newtonian) flow in the food and pharmaceutical industries needs special treatment in model implementation
Mixing problems: undermixing results in incomplete mixing (dead zone), while overmixing affects microbial structures and higher energy consumption. Both undermixing and overmixing affect the reactor's performance.
Mixing-induced hydrodynamics affects the reactor hydraulic residence time and residence time distribution, resulting in dead zones due to circulation and short circuit flow.
The hydrodynamics of the process affects the heat transfer, hence the uniformity of heating and cooling of solid particles and fluids.