Briefly introduces Tridiagonal Solutions

1. © 2008 Tridiagonal Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
100 NCL Innovation Park

2. Tridiagonal Solutions
• Company formed by experts from national lab and
industry
– NCL Innovation Park (www.venturecenter.co.in)
– Up and running since August 2006
• Focus is on ‘Compute, Innovate & Develop’
• Provides engineering solutions and services to a wide
range of manufacturing industry
– Product development
– Performance enhancement solutions
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3. Our Focus
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4. Portfolio
Performance Reactor Product
Enhancement Engineering Development
of Industrial & Scale-up Solutions: Fluidic
Flow Processes Solutions Devices/ Software
Training and Mentoring
• Performance Enhancement Solutions
– Using CFD, reactor engineering & customized models/
physical models/ experiments
– Scale-up/ batch to continuous/ process intensification
• Products/ Products Development Solutions
– Lower order models (in-house codes, gPROMS/ Excel …)
– CAE solutions (ANSYS, OpenFOAM, DEM …)
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5. Enhancing Flow Processes
• Pump, Cooling of Server Rack, Tail Lamp, Heat
exchangers, Cyclones, Electronics Cooling …
Stator Rotor passage of
Temperature
Submersible Pump
Contours in
automotive
tail lamp
Electronics Cooling Shell and Tube Heat Developed coolers for
Exchanger server racks
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6. Reactor Engineering & Scale-up Solutions
• RAPIDTM Methodology
– Reactor Analysis and Performance Improvement Diagnostics
• Oxidation Reactor, Fusion Reactor, Polymerization Reactor,
Fixed bed Vapor phase Reactor, Furnaces
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Literature Values CFD Simulation
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Disk Turbine Pitched-mid Pitched-top
Vapor Phase Multiphase Stirred Coal Fired Boilers
Reactor Tank Reactor
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7. Product Development Solutions
• Product development of fluidic devices
– Requirement analysis/ identification of key flow features
– Evolving ideas and evaluating them using CFD
– CFD validation of final design
– Guidance on experiments, if necessary
• Some examples
– Air intake filters, change over valve, inhaler
Redesigned filter
Optimized Inhaler
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8. Product Development Solutions
• Development of software products
– Requirement analysis/ identification of key features
– Selecting appropriate platforms
• FORTRAN, C++, VB.NET
– Verification and testing
– Documentation and support
• Some examples
– Air bag inflator, stirred reactor simulator, data center
cooling simulator, in-cabin climate simulator
High Fidelity Model with Excel Front End
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9. Training and Mentoring
• Customized short term courses and workshops
– CFD for reactor engineering
– Multi-scale modelling
– Multiphase flows
– Multiphase reactor engineering
• Industry specific CFD training
– Automotive, Steel, Chemical & Process, Power
• Develop and license courseware/ hands on sessions
– Agreement with SEED Infotech
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10. Tridiagonal’s Key Competencies
• Established methodology and best practices
– Selecting right tools & multi-scale modelling approach
• Unique capabilities in modeling complex, multi-phase and reacting flows
• Significant experience and expertise in applying such models to industrial
process equipment for realizing performance enhancement
– Solution focused than tool focused
• Expertise in customizing commercial computational tools
– CFD: FLUENT, GAMBIT, CFX, ICEM, EDEM
• Develop methodology & strategies to get best value out of CFD software
• Custom developed scripts and routines
– Reactor engineering: gPROMS
– General purpose: FORTRAN, C++, VB, Excel programming
• Experience of working on a wide range of projects
– Large multinational clients
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11. Advantage Tridiagonal
• Unique blend of CFD, reactor engineering, cold flow
simulations, product development and training expertise and
experience
– “One-stop shop” for engineering solutions
– Ability to select right tools for the job!
• Proven ability to execute large CFD and reactor engineering
projects and translating computer simulations to real life
products and performance enhancement
– Compute, Innovate & Develop is not just a slogan !
• Proven track record of building teams of engineers performing
full time modelling and simulation
– Established connections with academic institutes worldwide to
hire engineers with appropriate background
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12. Confidentiality & IP Protection
• Tridiagonal is committed to protect the confidential
information and intellectual property of our clients
• We are sensitive to the fact that success of business of our
clients and our business as solution provider, is closely linked
to the confidential information protection as well as
intellectual property protection
• Confidentiality and Non disclosure Agreement (NDA) between
Tridiagonal and the client
– Draft as per agreement between the two parties. Sample draft
attached to the email
• Confidentiality and NDA between Tridiagonal and its
employees
– Drafts prepared by recognized lawyers in India
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13. Data Security
Will be used up on Can be
Current Practice
specific request implemented
• No active media • Physical and network • Work performed on
policy: All media segregation of work client machines situated
connections disabled space at client location via
on desktops and • Access to the VPN
compute machines segregated area using • 24 hour security and
except FTP and access control cards surveillance of the
segregated area
secure network • Electronic records of
• Secured FTP access to the
• Manage FTP logs segregated area
• Network security • User desktops and
measures such as compute machines
frequent change in completely separated
user passwords
• Destruction of data
upon completion of
project
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14. Current Status
• State of the art computing facilities
– Multi-core clusters/ adequate licenses
• Team Tridiagonal: 22 employees
– Mostly Masters/ Doctorates from renowned institutes
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15. Engagement Modes
• Project by project mode
– Dedicated project manager
• Time and materials contract
– Dedicated account manager
– Reduces paper work & realizes faster turn around time
• Offshore development center
– Dedicated team and dedicated ODC head
– Option of ‘build, operate & transfer’
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16. Closure
• Tremendous potential: Compute, Innovate,
Develop
• Delivered value to our customers through cost
effective and innovative solutions & services
• Tremendous scope to leverage Tridiagonal
competencies for achieving productivity
enhancements
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