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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


Our Focus


Training and Mentoring

Portfolio

• 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 …)

Product

Development

Solutions: Fluidic

Devices/ Software

Performance

Enhancement

of Industrial

Flow Processes

Reactor

Engineering

& Scale-up

Solutions


Enhancing Flow Processes

• Pump, Cooling of Server Rack, Tail Lamp, Heat

exchangers, Cyclones, Electronics Cooling …

Developed coolers for

server racks

Electronics Cooling

Temperature

Contours in

automotive

tail lamp

Stator Rotor passage of Submersible Pump

Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger


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

Vapor Phase

Reactor

Multiphase Stirred

Tank Reactor

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1

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Disk Turbine Pitched-mid Pitched-top

Literature Values CFD Simulation

Coal Fired Boilers


Redesigned filter

Optimized Inhaler

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


High Fidelity Model with Excel Front End

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


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


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

Capabilities


• 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

Advantage Tridiagonal


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 linkedto 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


Data Security

Current PracticeWill be used up on

specific request

Can be

implemented

• No active media policy: All media connections disabled on desktops and compute machines except FTP and secure network

• Secured FTP• Manage FTP logs • Network security measures such as frequent change in user passwords

• Destruction of data upon completion of project

• Physical and network segregation of work space

• Access to the segregated area using access control cards

• Electronic records of access to the segregated area

• User desktops and compute machines completely separated

• Work performed on client machines situated at client location via VPN

• 24 hour security and surveillance of the segregated area


Current Status

• State of the art computing facilities

– Multi-core clusters/ adequate licenses

• Team Tridiagonal: 22 employees

– Mostly Masters/ Doctorates from renowned institutes


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’


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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