Products & services
Edwards Energy offers a complete service to assess the problem, set up the calculation or CFD simulation, interpret the results, advise on measurement techniques, and work with the client to develop innovative but practical design solutions, and/or to optimise the existing process.

CFD simulation is a powerful tool, but it is essential to be able to extract the crucial information that tells you whether one case result is actually better than another; looking at graphic flow visualisations is not always enough. Specialised application modules attached to PHOENICS have been developed in-house to do this. These enable the most relevant performance information to be extracted from the simulation. Special techniques are used to incorporate empirical formulae and/or model subscale features.

Application Modules are available for:

* Batch Autoclaves. with free or fan circulation.

Detailed predictions of the distribution of gas and product temperature and time histories at selected points to locate and eliminate product quality variations.
The module can handle free or fan circulation and very high gas pressures. It can also be applied to packed beds, ovens, kilns and pyrolysis reactors.

* Steam Condensers.

This simulation predicts overall performance and pinpoints air accumulation zones, enabling optimisation of lane & baffle layouts. This is best done early in the design process before the design becomes too complex, as it has often shown that simplified and less costly layouts give excellent performance, resulting in a more competitive design. However validation of proposed modifications to existing units have also been successfully performed.

Clients
Zotefoams Plc. Yuba heat transfer, McGregor Energy Services Ltd.
Andrew Wilkes Management, HMD Ltd.

Policy
Edwards Energy is completely independent and does not aim to promote a particular product or service, but to provide advice which maximises value for money for the client, and will not recommend more detailed analyses than are really necessary. Work is charged hourly or on fixed maximum price