Explotion Stresses in a Sugar Hopper

The subject of this analysis task was a sugar hopper in a confectionery manufacturing plant. Standards for this kind of equipment dictate that it must be able to withstand minimum internal pressure loads caused by explosions of the fine sugar powder mixed with the air inside the hopper.

Best Solution provided analysis support to an engineering consultancy by modelling and re-modelling a modified hopper until safe stress levels for the prescribed pressure loads were achieved.