This week the Dry Guys have been hard at work improving our simulations!

A little sneak peek from our CFD team is that they were able to significantly reduce the amount of error in many of the pieces of their simulation. This will greatly improve the confidence of our engineering recommendations for Green Technologies.

Our Feedstock Teams has nearly completed all of their tasks. They have already submitted all of our samples for analysis at the Geological Sciences Department, and we have gotten some of the results back. The only major thing left is to normalize the drying curves so that they can be input into Aspen.

The ChemE team was able to get all the separate sub-system simulations to converge this week so they can begin working on the whole system simulation. The major breakthrough that they made this week was converging the dryer sub-system simulation. The trick to getting this simulation to converge was to separate the dryer into its individual compartments. This more accurately simulates what is occurring within the equipment, and this leads to a more accurate solution.