Producing, distributing and selling energy involves many industries with a global focus on productivity, continuity, safety and reliability.

Modern society consumes large amounts of fuel, and the energy industry is crucial to the infrastructure and maintenance of society worldwide.

Nuclear Power

With the rise in energy requirements and fossil fuel price increases, the demand for Nuclear Power is growing over the years.

Today's field of numerical simulation for nuclear engineering is broad and aims to guarantee conformity with nuclear standards and regulations for safety, performance and lifetime of NPP in every situation (normal, upset or accidental).

ESI pioneered in this field and is highly recognized thanks to our engineer's expertise in diverse disciplines meeting the sector's needs.

ESI Group and COMEX NUCLEAIRE collaborate to reduce design and operational costs. Read more...

“ COMEX NUCLEAIRE (CxN) completed in collaboration with ESI the Behavior Analysis Report for Replacement Steam Generators (RSG) provided by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) for EDF French nuclear power plants. This notable work was carried out with a high level of quality using innovative approaches, such as SYSTUS functionalities allowing to complete 3D numerical models with as few hypotheses as possible. These studies include both complex thermo-hydraulic and thermo-mechanic analyses in order to demonstrate the equipment's full conformity with French nuclear regulation."

Dr. François Billon, Technical Director and Director of the MHI-CxN Partnership

 
Images courtesy of COMEX Nucléaire 

“ At Tractebel Energy Engineering, our team of fracture mechanics experts is using SYSTUS extensively for defect tolerance analysis.
In this specific case, we had to optimize NDT (Non-Destructive Testing) inspections on a key equipment: the reactor pressure vessel of a nuclear power plant."

Olivier Meessen, Design Engineer - Tractebel Energy Engineering

Fuel Cells

Flow simulation enables engineers to understand and visualize the complex flow within with the fuel cell. This plays a critical role in its performance:

“Simulation has helped us significantly increase the efficiency and life of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) by reducing variations in flow between the individual cells, and within cells.”

Sanjiv Kumar - Ballard Power Systems, Burnaby, British Columbia.

Solar

To address the growing market for efficient solar energy production, ESI delivers Simulation-Based Design solutions for complex manufacturing issues related to photo-voltaic (PV) applications, from large silicon crystal growth to chemical vapor deposition of the active junctions that make up the cell.  ESI solutions can also simulate thermal and structural performance under real operating conditions and our experts provide services for every step in between.

Wind

Wind Turbine infusion/injection and Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) processes are quickly tested and optimized through ESI's CATIA integrated solutions for Composites design and manufacturing: PAM-QUIKFORM for CATIA V5 and PAM-RTM for CATIA V5.

Composite part designers rapidly predict possible deformation of Composite parts reinforcement and fine tune the manufacturing process parameters, thus increasing productivity.

Demo: Injection of a wind blade with PAM-RTM for CATIA V5

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