Energy & Materials

Create a more sustainable future by rethinking energy and materials innovation in everything from oil & gas, mining, metals, and chemicals to wind energy and solar.

The Energy, Process and Utilities industry, including power, oil & gas, mining, metals and minerals, and chemicals is experiencing many challenges in complying with changing regulatory requirements and environmental and safety standards, aging infrastructure and technically demanding assets. Add to that volatile prices and industry profits are under pressure.

This challenge is more difficult, with high demands for quick changes due to technological innovation, without affecting the quality and schedule.

Energy & Materials businesses must diversify into new ventures, increase the pace of innovation, improve organizational and infrastructure efficiencies and increase responsiveness by aligning product supply with changing priorities and the demands of customers.

VIAS3D provides integrated, innovative, and cost-effective engineering and software solutions to simulate the behavior of large structures and component parts in the Energy, Process and Utilities industry. Our expert team is capable of performing linear and non-linear static/dynamic analysis, such as structural and thermal loads, corrosion/degradation, simulating vibrations fracture and failure, and investigation into the interaction of fluids, gasses and structures.

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Solutions and Applications

Oil & Gas

Power Generation

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FEA

  • Power generation: Shaft, blade, gear, exhaust manifold, thermal crack
  • Fluid transfer system: Piping, storage tanks, pumps, valves, manifolds
  • Cooling system: Heat exchanger, cooling tower
  • Accident simulation: Blast analysis, fire safety, casing failure, oil-seal leakage
  • Wind Energy: Wind turbine tower, rotor blade, nacelle, gear box, braking system, shaft, blade hub

CFD

  • Wind Power: Wind turbine aerodynamics and aeroacoustics analysis
  • Oil & Gas: Subsea, capping stack, erosion analysis, gas flow through porous rocks, multiphase flows, offshore oil platforms
  • Solar Energy: Radiation analysis (solar panels, collectors, and chimney)
  • Hydropower: Pelton wheel, Kaplan turbine, Francis turbine
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EMAG

  • OEM: Power transformers, reactors, switchgear, circuit breakers, current limiters, insulators
  • Power generation and Optimization: Conventional and renewables (wind power, hydroelectric and tidal power, solar)
  • Equipment, manufacturing, and material test: Magnetic gears, sputtering, induction heating/hardening, Non-Destructive Test (NDT)
  • High energy sources: Particle accelerators, high power microwaves, klystrons for accelerators, gyrotrons, magnetic confined plasma.
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