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Water Treatment

FLOW-3D HYDRO water treatment

Water Treatment

Water and wastewater recovery facilities offer a unique set of modeling challenges. Moving water through a treatment plant includes a mix of flow diversions, flow splitting, free surface and pressurized pipe flow conditions, with head loss and detailed velocity fields all important modeling outcomes. Other process modeling challenges include aeration, hindered settling, chemistry, and impeller motion. FLOW-3D HYDRO‘s advanced auxiliary models allow modelers to go beyond the hydraulics of the flow. Grit removal, chlorine contact tanks, sludge settling and aeration all have their own dedicated models and give the user full flexibility into choosing the level of sophistication of their modeling effort. With its TruVOF capabilities, FLOW-3D HYDRO can seamlessly handle a range of free surface pressurized flow conditions.

Water Treatment Playlist

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This FLOW-3D simulation shows multiple examples of air bubbles injected from the bottom of a fluid reservoir. Due to buoyancy, the bubbles rise to the bottom and as they diffuse into the surrounding fluid, the overall density of the fluid changes. Learn more about FLOW-3D‘s multiphysics capabilities at https://www.flow3d.com/modeling-capabilities/

Water Treatment Focused Applications

Grit removal

Flow splitting

Clarifiers

Hydraulic head losses

Aeration

Activated sludge models

Contact tanks

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Over the years, FLOW-3D has helped us solve complex hydraulic problems that would have otherwise been very difficult to solve with conventional hydraulic modeling tools. We are very thankful to the team at FLOW-3D. They have constantly been making the software better over the years, and have been very responsive to our needs.
Benjamin Israel DevadasonSenior Hydrologic and Hydraulic Project Engineer, Gannett Fleming, Inc.
It is FLOW-3D‘s inherent simplicity that lends itself to use in real-world problem solving. Rather than spending large amounts of time pre-processing (i.e., setting problems up), users can spend their time applying the results of their work.
John RichardsonBlue Hill Hydraulics
At Golder, we make the strong statement that we thrive on challenges and we know we need to apply the best tools and technologies to confidently address those challenges head-on! This includes the CFD software we use to simulate complex fluid flows for environmental, mining, hydroelectric, and water resources applications. Using FLOW-3D CLOUD, we have consistently been able to better resolve the complex physics associated with our problems and achieved significant time savings for our projects.
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W. Daley ClohanGlobal CFD Lead at Golder Associates Ltd.
FLOW-3D is a powerful tool for solving complex hydraulic issues related to planning, design and operation of our hydraulic system, as well as associated environmental studies. I am also impressed with Flow Science's customer support and product development.
Kevin SydorManitoba Hydro
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Ryan EdisonAECOM
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