SmartCAE Software Module

Dry Ice

Create a digital twin of your dry ice shipper. Determine the best position of your payload and dry ice, in order to maximize the lifetime.

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SmartCAE Dry Ice

What is better, having your product sit on dry ice or putting it on the bottom of the shipper, covered with dry ice? What about dry ice pellets vs. bricks? Which one will actually keep your product cold for a longer time period?

With the SmartCAE Dry Ice module you can create a digital twin of any dry ice shipper and analyze its behavior for any given temperature profile. Gain insights on the lifetime, sublimation rate of the dry ice, inside temperatures, and more. By applying different configurations of dry ice and payload, you can investigate effects, such as lab experiment vs. physical shipment, pod above vs. pod below payload, and more.

Benefits:

Any cold pack materials: water and any other PCM
Insulation materials: PU, EPS, VIP, ...
Compare packagings of different vendors
Run thousands of simulations in a few minutes
Include solar irradiance and thermal radiation

How it works

STEP I

Create the Digital Twin

How large is your dry ice shipper? Are you using dry ice pellets, or maybe dry ice blocks? How large is your payload?

Create the geometry of your entire shipper and define the materials used.

STEP II

Set Dry Ice Configuration

Depending on your payload and dry ice position, the lifetime of your shipper will change. Try out several configurations, and see which one will maximize the lifetime.

You are undecided, whether pellets or dry ice blocks will be your best option? Simulate them both, and find out.

STEP III

Analyze the Results

Have a look at the temperatures within your shipper. When will your payload reach the given temperature limit? Is your dry ice fully sublimated?

Gain thorough insights of your dry ice shipper by analyzing temperature, sublimation, CO2 concentration plots, and more.

Related software modules

The SmartCAE Dry Ice is one of our basic software modules. In combination with our SmartCAE Data Tools, you can compare your simulations with physical experiments even faster. Check it out below:

Data Tools

Basic Module

Simplify the comparison of measurements and simulation results. Extract data from curves of.png and .pdf formats.

Thermal Packaging

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Build digital twins of any physical shipping system. Study how they maintain payload temperature for any ambient conditions.

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