ROCKET SCIENCE FOR FRENCH FRIES

How computational fluid dynamics helped in the development of innovative jet mixers for tanks NOT MANY people understand that the oil used to fry chips meets many challenges on its route from the field to the frying pan. Some of them arise during the liquid bulk storage phase, such as layering of the oil and building of sediments in the shore tank due to inefficient mixing. This, in turn, leads to the decomposition of oil quality and direct costs, as well as negative externalities associated with the need for cleaning the shore tank, sediment utilisation, and related production idle time. Efficient mixing is a critical component of the storage phase of many products besides vegetable oils, e.g. biofuels, refined oil products, crude oil, distillates, dairy products, paints, aromatics and many others. This is where computer algorithms help to provide for efficient mixer design. WHAT IS COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS? Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the area of the fluid dynamics science for the analysis of a fluid’s behaviour by using an extended range of numerical methods and data structures. The choice of application of an individual numerical method, or a combination...