CFD Services: Allerion Oilfield Services

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Allerion Oilfield Services (www.allerion.com) develops products and solutions for the petro-chemical industry. Currently, Allerion is engaged in developing and deploying static mixers for desludging and destratification of large crude oil storage tanks all over the world. Their simple and easy to deploy DS Jet mixer designs allow their customers to recover large amounts of oil product trapped in settled sludge. With rising oil prices, the DS Jet mixer has become a must-have tool with a great return on investment. With demand high, Allerion is aiming to develop this line of products further. Challenge Allerion became interested in performing a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis to help visualize the transient flow patterns inside the oil tank during the DS Jets multi-day operational cycle. CFD allowed Allerion to view otherwise impossible to see flow patterns in a large storage tank, as the man-hole mounted DS Jet nozzle is swept through multiple positions over 38 hours. Solution SimuTech Group was employed to perform the CFD simulations of two designs and compare the flow patterns and velocities required for desludging. Detailed CFD models were created for use within the ANSYS CFX advanced flow solver. CFX is uniquely suited due to ability to model transient boundary motions (allowing mixer motion) coupled with customized computational mesh deformation routines. Furthermore, advanced post processing techniques allowed advanced visualizations and animations to be made, to fully understand performance.

Software
ANSYS CFX DesignModeler ANSYS ICEM CFD Meshing

Services
CFD Consulting

Benefits
Reduced risk Increased Productivity Extended Life Improved Performance

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