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COBEM 2019
25th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTATIONAL STUDY ON A DRYING EQUIPMENT
Submission Author:
Eduardo Schuch , RS
Co-Authors:
Eduardo Schuch, Magaiver Lamp, Mateus Hartmann, Ismael Schroer, Angela Moura
Presenter: Mateus Hartmann
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2019.COB2019-1655
Abstract
Computational simulation software have been gaining ground in industrial and academic environments due to their potential in providing data about the functioning of equipment and processes. This study was designed to perform a numerical study through COMSOL Multiphysics software in a drying equipment used in a production line of a manufacturing industry. Two numerical models were developed and contemplate the radiation generated by a resistor and the movement of a test piece, simulating the conditions of the real process. The models distinguish from each other in the strategy related to the boundary conditions applied: the first model was designed by applying temperatures as boundary conditions which were measured in the real process, while the second model would calculate these temperatures instead, based on the power measured in the real process. The main objective of this study was to compare how the two numerical models would perform in terms of accuracy to the real process, being both models validated by obtaining a mean squared error of 2.49% and 2.74% to the first and second models, respectively. Therefore, the study concluded that the first model would be more precise, although the difference is small.
Keywords
Numerical Study, thermal radiation, computer-aided engineering
