USING A READILY AVAILABLE COMMERCIAL SPREADSHEET To Teach a Graduate Course on Chemical Process Simulation

摘要

For chemical engineering graduates, being able to use a chemical process simulator is considered as a sine qua non of the discipline, yet relatively few students have a direct appreciation of what is involved in constructing a chemical process simulator. The complex chemical process simulators, such as ASPEN and HYSYS, that are almost universally known to chemical engineers, have significantly streamlined the task of chemical process design. Efficient these simulators are, however, they also mask myriad complex calculations. Thus one of the end results is that users of these software packages may not have a full appreciation of how elegantly and succinctly process simulators intertwine almost all aspects of chemical engineering from thermodynamics to equipment design to cost estimation.