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Industry’s rapid adoption of EDEM for the design and analysis of handling, processing, and manufacturing operations can be seen in almost every engineering discipline and industry sector. As a result, EDEM is used in a wide range of research areas, providing academics with a valuable CAE tool for particle-related research:
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Chemical Engineering, Biochemical Engineering, Process and Bioprocess Engineering, and Pharmaceutical Engineering EDEM is being used to model:
Milling and comminution, segregation, conveying, hopper discharge, chemical kinetics, granulation, agglomeration, particle-liquid separation, powder mixing, tribocharging of powders, die filling, tablet compaction, packed bed reactors, wetting and drying of particulates, tablet coating, spray coating, entrainment, scouring, fluidized and bubbling beds, and solid drug delivery systems...
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Pharmaceutical manufacture:tablet coating |
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Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Metallurgical Engineering, and Minerals Processing and Bulk Solids Handling EDEM is being used to model:
Bulk materials handling including lunar dust and regolith, mechanics of sieving and separation, feeding and weighing systems, materials handling in steel and glass manufacturing, slurry transport, milling and comminution, segregation, conveying, hopper discharge...
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Bulk materials handling: conveyor transfer point |
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Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering, Construction Engineering, Geomechanics, Earth Sciences and Volcanology EDEM is being used to model:
Packing of granular media, micro-mechanics of clay soils, concrete rheology, particle-fluid flow, heat transfer in building materials, riverbank reinforcement...
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Bulk materials handling: bucket wheel reclaimer |
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Mining Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, Geotechnical Engineering and Rock Mechanics EDEM is being used to model:
block caving, slope stability, rock cutting, optimization of mining and excavation equipment, bulk solids flow dynamics, conveyor transfer, wear analysis, crushing and milling...
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Excavation equipment: bucket optimization |
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Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Biosystems Engineering, Food Process Engineering, Wood Science and Engineering and Forestry EDEM is being used to model:
grain handling, forage harvesting, silo discharge, screw conveying, fertilizer spreaders, drying and mixing of wood chips and biomass, bruising, handling and sorting of food materials...
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Particle comminution: bead milling |
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