Improve Throughput, Efficiency and
Product Quality with Simulation
Materials and chemical processing depends on tightly controlled operations where flow behavior, heat transfer, reaction kinetics, material properties, and equipment performance directly influence yield, quality, and cost. Simulation helps improve overall equipment effectiveness, increase capacity, and use raw materials more efficiently while reducing waste across process environments.
By bringing deeper insight into both process behavior and material response, simulation supports better decisions before changes are made in production. This helps reduce trial and error, improve confidence in scale-up, and strengthen equipment design and process optimization.
From Process Performance to
Materials Intelligence
Engineering simulation in this industry spans far more than one process step or discipline. It supports reacting flows, mixing, rheology-driven manufacturing, particle handling, materials characterization, and materials intelligence workflows that together improve both manufacturing performance and product development.
That breadth makes it especially valuable for organizations focused on both operational efficiency and long-term innovation. Teams can improve process understanding, refine material selection, reduce waste, and develop better-performing products through more connected engineering and materials workflows.
Core
Focus
Reacting and Thermal Processes
Analyze flow, heat transfer and chemical reactions to improve process efficiency, quality and operating stability in complex chemical systems.
Mixing and Particle Behavior
Study industrial mixing, granular handling and fluid-particle interaction to improve throughput, consistency and equipment performance.
Materials and Process Modeling
Use materials data, computational materials engineering and rheology-aware simulation to make better product and process decisions.
Digital Process Improvement
Extend simulation into production and operations with connected engineering workflows and digital twins for process understanding and optimization.
Relevant
Applications
Chemical Process Optimization
Improve process performance with simulation that helps raise OEE, expand capacity, and use raw materials more efficiently. Make better operating and design decisions earlier to reduce cost, improve throughput, and support more consistent production.
Reacting Flows
Simulate reacting flows where chemistry, heat transfer, and fluid behavior directly affect process output and efficiency. Gain deeper insight into combustion and reaction-driven systems before relying on costly physical testing alone.
Chemical Kinetics
Model chemical kinetics in idealized reacting systems to understand process chemistry before production testing begins. Support faster development and more confident decisions where yield, efficiency, and byproduct control matter.
Industrial Mixing
Analyze mixing performance in process equipment to improve flow patterns, turbulence, and process consistency. Use simulation to refine mixer design and operating conditions before making changes in production environments.
Particle and Bulk Solids Handling
Study granular flow, solids handling, and fluid-particle interaction where bulk material behavior affects process performance. Improve visibility into conveying, suspension, mixing, and other operations where particles influence results.
Polymer Processing
Simulate rheology-driven manufacturing processes to improve forming behavior and production performance. Support extrusion, thermoforming, and blow molding workflows with earlier insight into material flow and process quality.
Glass and Cement Processing
Extend process simulation beyond polymers into glass, metals, and cement manufacturing environments. Evaluate forming behavior earlier to reduce cost, improve process control, and support better production outcomes.
Materials Selection
Make smarter material decisions earlier by comparing options against performance, cost, manufacturability, and sustainability goals. Reduce design iterations and validate choices with greater confidence before downstream commitments are made.
Why
Fluid Codes
Simulation Expertise for
Materials & Chemical Processing
As an Ansys Channel Partner, Fluid Codes supports materials and chemical processing organizations with simulation solutions aligned to critical process and product challenges, from reacting flows and mixing to rheology, materials intelligence, and connected engineering workflows.
With the right technical guidance, engineering simulation can be applied more effectively to improve efficiency, product quality, raw material utilization, and process confidence. This helps build a stronger path from process understanding to better operational and commercial outcomes.
How Simulation
Helps
Fluids
Model flow, heat transfer, reacting flows, multiphase behavior and rheological processes across chemical and materials processing operations.
Materials
Use trusted materials data, selection tools and enterprise materials intelligence to improve engineering consistency and product decisions.
Digital Twin
Connect simulation and process data to create more predictive, operationally useful models for production improvement and monitoring.
Connect
Support more structured engineering workflows, data reuse and connected digital processes across process-development and manufacturing teams.
Structures
Analyze equipment integrity, thermal stress and mechanical behavior in vessels, mixers and other process-critical hardware.
Electronics
Support advanced process environments where plasma, charge transport or coupled EM behavior influences equipment and material outcomes.
Improve Process Performance with Simulation
Talk to Fluid Codes about the right Ansys solutions for your materials and chemical processing challenges, from process optimization and materials selection to reacting flows, rheology and digital twin deployment.
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