University of Luxembourg RUES (LuXDEM)

Core business

Major Materials & Manufacturing projects

• Ceratizit: hard metal production
• Paul Würth Lux: numerical modelling of blast furnace
• SoilConcept: Valorisation of biomass through gasification
• Goodyear: tire-ground interaction

Technical / technological capabilities

• Storage and transport of granular material
• Mixing/segregation of granular matter
• Mining and its machinery
• Agriculture and its machinery
• Processing industry: Fluidised beds, fixed and moving bed reactors for thermal conversion e.g. drying , combustion, gasification
• Processing of raw materials
• Pharmaceutical industry e.g. transport, storage, coating, drug production
• Food industry (transport, coating, processing)
• Material science
• Energy production
• Systems biology
• Expertise in Extended Discrete Element Method (XDEM), Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and Finite Element Method (FEM)

Main customers / collaborations

• Delph (Luxembourg)
• Paul Würth (Luxembourg)
• Goodyear (Luxembourg)
• IEE (Luxembourg)
• SOilConcept (Luxembourg)
• inuTech (Germany)
• Resource Centre for Environnemental Technologies (CRTE) (Luxembourg)
• Technical University of Aachen (Germany)
• Technical University of Dresden (Germany)
• University of Stuttgart (Germany)
• University of Bochum (Germany)
• University of Applied Science Lucerne (Switzerland)
• Lithuanian Energy Institute (Lithuania)
• L’institut de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l’environnement (CEMAGREF) de Grenoble (FR)
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)