Industries
At Ingsolutia in Rotterdam, we understand the crucial role that technology plays in serving various industries, including the offshore, aeronautical and maritime sectors. Our deep insights into design engineering and engineering services enable us to transform technological capabilties into sustainable process of engineering. Our approach is driven by the efficiency, safety, and environmental friendliness within the industries. Take, for example, the application of advanced simulations and analyses in the design process of aircraft components; these techniques do not only minimize costs but also increase the performance and durability of products.
Outlook on the Future
The energy and renewable sectors are currently undergoing a significant transformation and changing policies heading towards sustainble processes. At Ingsolutia, we focus on applying technologies that support these transitions. Through effective design engineering, we follow path for sustainable energy use.
Offshore
The offshore industry involves structures like oil platforms, subsea pipelines, and wind turbines, which operate under extreme environmental conditions such as high waves, currents, and corrosion.
- Structural Integrity: FEA helps assess the stress, deformation, and fatigue life of components to ensure structural stability.
- Cost-Efficiency: It reduces the need for costly physical prototypes, testing and overdesign by predicting performance virtually.
- Safety: Simulations allow engineers to predict and mitigate failure modes under dynamic loads such as waves, wind, and seismic activity.
Aerospace
The aerospace sector demands lightweight, high-performance, and safe components for aircraft and spacecraft.
- Material Optimization: FEA allows the use of advanced materials like composites by simulating their behavior under extreme aerodynamic and thermal loads.
- Regulatory Compliance: Simulations ensure compliance with stringent safety standards by accurately predicting failure points.
- Design Innovation: It enables rapid prototyping and testing of novel concepts, such as more efficient wing designs or fuselage structures.
We are able to provide complete solutions for aero-structures, addressing multidisciplinary domains such as aerodynamics, acoustics, fatigue, vibration, thermal analysis, and crash impact. Our capabilities include composite material design, wing simulations, and nacelle aerodynamics.
Energy
From conventional power plants to advanced nuclear facilities, FEA is vital for ensuring reliability and performance.
- Thermal Analysis: Simulates heat transfer in turbines, boilers, and reactors to optimize efficiency and safety.
- Structural Durability: Evaluates the effects of pressure, vibration, and thermal stresses on equipment like pipelines and pressure vessels.
- Failure Prevention: Detects weak points in components to prevent costly breakdowns and downtime.
Our simulations cater to gas turbines, wind turbines, oil & gas, hydropower, solar power, and biomass industries. We focus on advanced multi-objective optimization to improve productivity and enhance safety.
Renewables
The renewables sector, including solar, wind, and hydropower, relies on robust and efficient designs for sustainability.
- Wind Turbines: FEA helps design blades and support structures to withstand wind loads and fatigue over long operational lifespans.
- Solar Panels: Simulations improve the design of mounting structures to resist environmental loads like wind and snow.
- Hydropower: FEA aids in analyzing stresses on dams, turbines, and other components to ensure operational reliability.
Maritime
Finite Element Analysis (FEA) simulations are essential in the maritime industry for several reasons, providing valuable insights into the behavior, durability, and efficiency of vessels and their components.
- Structural Integrity and Safety: The structural design of ships, offshore platforms, and other maritime structures must withstand a variety of stresses, such as wave impacts, weight distribution, and environmental factors.
- Optimizing Material Usage: FEA helps evaluate the best materials for different parts of the ship or offshore platform for selection of optimal materials that are both durable and cost-effective.
- Fatigue and Life Cycle Prediction: Vessels and maritime structures are subject to constant stress and fatigue. FEA allows for predicting fatigue and material degradation over time.
- Enhanced Vessel Performance: FEA is used to analyze the hydrodynamic forces acting on a ship’s hull.
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability: By simulating different design choices and their effects, FEA can support the development of environmentally friendly, fuel-efficient vessels.
Our expertise includes fatigue assessment studies, modal and vibration analyses, seakeeping assessments, maneuvering studies, and hydrodynamic performance optimization.
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