Cylindrical pleated filter elements are widely used because they provide a large filter area in limited space, with the well-known benefits of low pressure drop and high filter capacity. As one cannot simply predict the behavior of a pleated filter from experiments on flat sheet media, GeoDict provides the option to model cylindrical pleated filter elements. These models permit the design of filters that use such cylindrical filter elements based on the simulation of the pressure drop, filter efficiency and filter lifetime.

Use Cylindrical Pleat to create a cylindrical pleated filter element. The models are available not only in the standard GDT format but also as CAD data in STL file format, compatible with third-party simulation tools like Fluent, CFX, and Star-CD. Additionally, the models are provided as volume meshes in GeoDict, which includes the orientation of computational cells to account for the anisotropic properties of the filter media across the individual layers of the filter element.