Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling provides valuable three-dimensional insight into the combustion process, heat transfer, furnace-flow problems and burner-to-burner interactions. John Zink Company uses this sophisticated tool to enhance our knowledge on the performance of John Zink® fired equipment, to dramatically reduce the duration of the development cycle, and to solve complex application problems.

Our research and development team includes CFD engineers with advanced degrees and more than 50 years of combined CFD/combustion experience. CFD experimentation is validated in hot-flow test furnaces and cold-flow Plexiglass™-scaled models.

John Zink engineers use CFD to simulate and analyze clusters of burners to determine the ideal burner spacing that eliminates flame interactions and impingement on heat-transfer tubes. CFD is also used to study flow distribution problems in burner plenums and ductwork. This analysis enables John Zink experts to accurately determine the pressure drop through the ducts and the air distribution among different burners.

Our CFD engineers use the latest combustion codes, including Fluent, ACERC, Star-CD, PCGC, Chemkin, CET-89 and others, to simulate reacting turbulent flows.The CFD lab contains three advanced multi-CPU Unix^® workstations, two SGI™ graphics post-processing workstations and two high-performance P4 PC-based workstations.

CFD modeling results in significant reduction in furnace downtime and operating costs.

Contact a John Zink representative to gather more information.

John Zink Company, LLC
11920 East Apache
Tulsa, OK 74116
United States of America
+1-918-234-1800

email: info@johnzink.com