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Sauce Delivery Optimization

The problematic twin screw pumps in the LiDestri production lines.

Team Members

Irem Alara Kocak
Luke McCarney
Ryan Carbone
Zach Beinhacker

Supervisors

F. Doug Kelley, Chemical Engineering

Customers

LiDestri Food & Drink

Description

LiDestri produces a variety of sauces with varying viscosities, densities, and bubble points that cause throughput problems; with high throughput, the pumps begin to shake violently. The purpose of our project is to identify the cause of this phenomenon and mitigate its influence to increase sauce production from 100 gallons/min to 120 gallons/min.

Virtual Meeting with the Manticore team members
Figure 1. Virtual Meeting with the Manticore team members.