Purolator-Facet Inc. breaks Mechanical Engineering design rules with COSMOSFloWorks

Company Purolator-Facet Inc. Industry Machinery Location U.S.A. Product Used COSMOSFloWorks™ Type of Analysis Fluid Dynamics More Details

The Challenge

Neumag continuously improves the texture nozzle design - a process traditionally done thru trial-and-error, which is not optimal due to the high cost and the time it takes to produce the required prototypes. "We realized that experimental data was no longer sufficient and creating prototypes and using external experts was too expensive. We also realized that changes made to the designs were usually followed by new problems. We just did not fully understand the results of these tests."

The Solution
Rachels downloaded a free trial version of COSMOSFloWorks and within two days of discovering the potential and ease-of-use of the world's best-selling CFD tool, he began conducting complete analysis sessions in less than 90 minutes. He soon bought a license. By using COSMOSFloWorks to quickly analyze multiple design iterations, Rachels' team at Purolator-Facet, Inc., reduced the planned project length by two months and saved thousands of dollars by eliminating the need to construct multiple physical prototypes. By project's end, the analysis results had helped create a patent-pending design that Purolator-Facet expects to develop for other industrial applications and revenue opportunities.

Summary and Metrics:

• Within two days of starting to use COSMOSFloWorks, complete analysis sessions were conducted in less than 90 minutes
• Saved two full months of development work and delivered the project to the customer on time
• Allowed Purolator-Facet to break some of the established paradigms and rules of cyclonic inertial separator design