Decistor SPS^®

SPS stands for Solids Processing Simulator.

In cooperation with TU Delft, Decistor developed a Simulation model to support decision making in design, investment and operations of Materials Recovery Facilities.

Some years before this cooperation started the awareness arose that we need better tools to design, monitor and operate these facilities. The search for existing applications taught us that we needed to develop new software, since there were no such tools available.

This kind of tools is nescessary because the value of the output is increasingly depending on the consistency of the materials produced. Waste facilities are getting more complex and require bigger investments. A simulation tool will help to manage the complicated operations and their economics.

The development does not end with the appearance of a model. In fact it just starts now, after three years of development. We will launche a system to serve different clients, from first stage sorters to commodity traders and researchers. Out of these different client groups some organisations are welcomed as co-developer of further knowledge.

The system can be characterised as a symbiosis of theoretical knowledge in the field of modelling, physical properties and materials handling on one hand and practical knowledge, condensed in rules of thumb of machine-suppliers and user-specialists on the other.

The software is discrete and dynamic, to make it possible to deal with the properties of wastes, being mixes of heterogeneous particles.

Short demo-movies show how the software operates.