Smarter Industrial Thermal Processes: Design Optimization and Predictive Maintenance

nablaDot supports equipment manufacturers and industrial operators in improving thermal performance, identifying inefficiencies and accelerating the transition towards more flexible and sustainable technologies.

Our expertise includes heat exchangers, preheaters, furnaces, combustion systems and hybrid thermal equipment.

How we help our customers:

• Improve equipment design: Identify thermal bottlenecks, poor flow distribution and critical operating conditions before manufacturing.

• Reduce energy consumption: Evaluate efficiency improvements, process modifications and heat-transfer optimisation strategies.

• Support decarbonisation: Assess the integration of hydrogen, electrification, alternative fuels and hybrid energy systems.

• Optimise operation: Develop fast predictive models to compare operating scenarios and identify more efficient conditions.

• Improve reliability: Analyse thermal stresses, temperature distributions and other performance-related phenomena to support maintenance and retrofit decisions.

Advanced simulation without the computational bottleneck

We combine high-fidelity CFD and heat-transfer simulation with reduced-order models that reproduce key physical behaviour at a fraction of the computational cost.

This makes advanced engineering knowledge available not only during equipment design, but also for operational optimisation, predictive monitoring and digital twin applications.

Who are we looking for?

We welcome collaboration with thermal equipment manufacturers, engineering companies, energy-intensive industries and industrial technology providers.

We are particularly interested in joint development of digitally enabled equipment, optimisation of existing installations, and demonstration projects addressing energy efficiency and industrial decarbonisation.