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Introducing One of the Worlds Largest Multiphase Flow and Process Development Laboratory

The Experimental Fluids Division at Tridiagonal caters to the pilot and field scale testing needs of the Oil & Gas and the Chemical Process Industry segments.

Covering over 250,000 square feet, we operate one of the world’s largest multiphase flow laboratory servicing the Oil & Gas industry. There are nine field scale flow loops to conduct R&D and testing in areas such as solids transport, foam transport, hydrate slurry transport, wax deposition, erosion, erosion-corrosion and viscous multiphase flows. The 16-inch sand transport and multiphase flow loop and the 4-inch wax deposition flow loops are one of a kind flow loops available in the world. Chemical Process Industry projects are focused on enabling Process & Product Innovations in Chemical, Consumer Product, Food and Pharma Industry. Experiments focus on foaming and aeration during bottle filling, drying & roasting, batch to continuous transformations, mixing and vortexing in stirred tanks, solids dissolution, coating etc. The key expertise of the team is design, construction and operation of lab and pilot scale plants based on sound multiphase flow and chemical engineering principles.

What we offer:

    1. Field scale infrastructure with significant gas and liquid processing capabilities including 60 tons of chilling and 1 MW of Power Supply
    2. Advanced instrumentation methods including high speed photography, PIV, Wire Mesh Sensor, Ultrasonic Velocity Profiler, CANTY camera
    3. Very quick response in contractual process. Business friendly.
    4. Team is a balanced blend of individuals with Ph.D., Masters and Bachelor’s degree engineers along with technicians
    5. Easy access to fabrication shops, process design firms, EPC, National Labs etc.
    6. Low labor costs across all stages of a process from construction to experimentation
    7. Can provide 3 shifts of Labor to conduct long duration experiments

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Our Facilities:
1. Erosion Test Facility
2. Sand Screen Erosion Testing
3. Multiphase Flow and Sand Transport Facility
4Liquid Entrainment Test Facility
5. Multiphase Wax Deposition Testing
6Erosion – Corrosion Multiphase Flow Loop

Case Studies

Pravin, one of the five members of Board of Directors in Tridiagonal Solutions has proven his expertise in creating, positioning and managing high growth companies. Mr. Jain has completed his Bachelors in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai and Masters in Computer System Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston. He has also completed the Executive Program for Growing Companies at Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He has over 17 years of experience in Technology Entrepreneurship, Business Development and Delivery of Customer Centric Solutions. Pravin’s experience includes acquiring as well as divesting companies. Pravin lived and worked for 14 years in the US, and shifted back to India in the summer of 2006. He has driven, and been accountable for Sales, Marketing, Technology, Delivery and Strategy functions at his previous ventures. Pravin’s previous company grew by over 40x in 6 years and was subsequently divested to Wipro.

Ashish heads the software development activities at Tridiagonal Solutions. He has Post graduate degree in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences from IIT, Kanpur. Ashish is also a founder member of Tridiagonal and his interests include Computational Fluid Dynamics, Turbulence Modeling, Technical Training and Mentoring along with Open Source Software Development. Before founding Tridiagonal, Ashish worked with Fluent for seven years where he looked after product management responsibilities for Catia and FlowLab products.

Dr. Damodaran Vedapuri heads the North American Operations of Tridiagonal Solutions. He obtained his doctorate from Ohio University. Dr. Vedapuri has wide experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flow Accelerated Corrosion and solving Multiphase Flow Problems of interest to the oil and gas industry. Before joining Tridiagonal, he was employed with SwRI, a premier research lab in the US and at Fluent Inc.

Dr. Damodaran Vedapuri heads the North American Operations of Tridiagonal Solutions. He obtained his doctorate from Ohio University. Dr. Vedapuri has wide experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Flow Accelerated Corrosion and solving Multiphase Flow Problems of interest to the oil and gas industry. Before joining Tridiagonal, he was employed with SwRI, a premier research lab in the US and at Fluent Inc.

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