Screening is a unit operation where probabilistic mechanisms take place in an intensive way. This work presents an alternative screening model. The final product is a software system called SimPeneira (experimentally validated) developed in order to simulate scenarios in industrial screening and to quantify the impact of parameters such as: screen opening, length, effective area, material flow speed, vibration frequency and amplitude. The system can also size screens using the classical sizing procedure (with modifications).
simulation; size particle; screening
