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Hussmann India's Enhanced Simulation Accuracy with Altair AcuSolveTM
Technology Category
- Sensors - Environmental Sensors
- Sensors - Temperature Sensors
Applicable Industries
- Equipment & Machinery
- Food & Beverage
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
- Quality Assurance
Use Cases
- Time Sensitive Networking
- Virtual Reality
Services
- Hardware Design & Engineering Services
- Testing & Certification
The Challenge
Hussmann India, a provider of tailored food safety solutions, was facing a significant challenge in maintaining the highest performance and quality standards for their refrigerated display cases and refrigeration systems. The company had to conduct extensive analyses of their product designs to identify and rectify even the smallest of design errors early in the design cycle. The highly competitive and price-sensitive nature of the refrigeration industry necessitated the compression of design and development cycle times, while ensuring cost efficiency and uncompromised quality. Hussmann India was also under pressure to ensure that there would be no rise in temperature in the refrigerator due to infiltration, which would directly affect the total efficiency of the refrigerator display case. Another challenge was the cost and time spent on the experimental testing of the refrigerator.
About The Customer
Hussmann India is a leading provider of tailored food safety solutions designed to improve food quality and integrity. The company is dedicated to its customers' success and is passionate about food retailing, quality, and performance. Hussmann India offers innovative engineering solutions for merchandising, refrigeration design, energy efficiency, and sustainability, enabling excellence across the industry. As a manufacturer of refrigerated display cases and refrigeration systems, the company has to maintain the highest performance and quality standards for the products they develop. Hussmann India has invested in setting up the right infrastructure with an advanced product design engineering team, analysis, and simulation tools to achieve their design objectives.
The Solution
To address these challenges, Hussmann India turned to Altair AcuSolveTM, a general-purpose CFD Thermal based software capable of modeling a variety of heat and flow problems. The company used Altair AcuSolveTM to perform CFD Thermal analysis of the refrigerator display case to maintain the product temperature according to the ASHRAE standards. The software was used to model air flow and thermal behavior of the system, evaluate the product temperature, and ensure there were no temperature hot spots in the entire system. The complete experimental test procedure was executed for the refrigerator, with simulators kept in the products to measure the temperature. These simulator locations were modeled in Altair AcuSolve as nodal points to extract the temperature results for comparison. The simulation results showed a good correlation with experimental temperature measurements.
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