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The design of a new over-spray paint eliminator is presented as an example of a successful research and development (R&D) project performed by a team of engineers including representatives from a user company of the product, a manufacturer of the product and an academic institution. The combined effort of plant-site observation, a limited full-scale data, scale modeling, and computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling were first applied to solve technical problems related to an old wet scrubber and to enhance the physical understanding of the phenomena. With the insight gained during this process, a new wet scrubber was invented and reduced to production.
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Tanigawa, Y. et al. (2008). Development of a New Paint Over-Spray Eliminator. In: Saito, K. (eds) Progress in Scale Modeling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8682-3_26
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