Aglave, R.
Siemens PLM Software, Houston, Texas
Ravindra Aglave is the Director for Energy and Process Industries in the Simulation and Test (STS) subsegment of Siemens PLM Software. In this role, he is responsible for bringing new modeling and physics knowledge into CFD simulation code that can be deployed in the industry.
It is never a good sign when a piece of equipment exhibits unsafe behaviors—such as large, unexpected vibrations, or cracks forming around instrument ports—particularly in the thermal reactor of a sulfur plant, where high-temperature gaseous streams chemically react as part of the process that produces elemental sulfur.
Reaction engineering is a branch of chemical engineering that deals with the design and optimization of chemical reactors.