Workshops

• Overview of CHEMCAD functions
• Overview and navigation of the physical property database
• Adding a new component to the database
• Overview of thermodynamic options
• Building a flowsheet for design purposes
• Modeling an existing process
• Quantitative and qualitative use of simulation
• Using simulation for day-to-day tasks
• Using plant data in process flowsheets
• CHEMCAD for transient and static problems
• Simulation as an extension of your engineering thought process
• Modeling plant utilities (steam, process water, etc.)
• Course covers:
• Recycle loops
• Distillation
• Reactors
• Heat exchangers
• CHEMCAD controllers
• CHEMCAD plots and reports
• Solid components
• Electrolytes
• Component binary interaction parameters (BIPs)

• Component Database and Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium
• Overview of CHEMCAD functions
• Building flowsheets
• Reporting tools and data transfer with Excel 
• Sensitivity analysis and optimization 
• Thermodynamic models 
• Recycle and convergence settings 
• Controllers 
• Piping networks and pressure drop calculations 
• Distillation 
• Batch distillation 
• BIP regression 
• Liquid- liquid equilibrium and extraction  
• Absorption 

• Electrolytes  
• Solubility of salts and heat of solution 
• pH calculation 
• Absorption and solubility of gases 
• Optimization with controllers 
• Residue curve maps 
• Dynamic simulation  
• Excel, VBA, and VBClient applications with CHEMCAD 

• Basics of dynamic models
  • Piping networks in dynamic models
  • PID control loops
  • Viewing, plotting, and using results
• Batch processes in CC-DYNAMICS and CC-BATCH
  • Basics of modeling batch processes
  • Building batch process flowsheets
  • Batch, semi-batch, and continuous vessels
  • Specifying a vessel and its associated equipment
  • Using dynamic controllers
• Batch reactors
  • Regressing kinetic data for reactions
  • Batch and semi-batch/continuous tank reactors
  • Temperature control with jackets or coils
  • Modeling batch reactors with distillation columns
• Dynamic distillation
  • Basics of building dynamic distillation models
  • Moving from steady state to dynamics
  • Feed/process changes or disturbances
  • Start-up and shutdown of a column
  • Using PID controllers with distillation units
• Emergency relief
  • Rating and sizing relief devices for single- and two-phase flow
  • Sizing relief headers
  • Investigating relief scenarios dynamically

This high-level survey of CHEMCAD's capabilities covers the following topics:

• Introduction and basic flowsheeting
• Distillation columns
• Recycle loops
• Analysis tools (sensitivity study, Excel links, etc.)
• Piping network calculations
• Creating and managing user components

• Overview of CHEMCAD functions
• Overview and navigation of the physical property database
• Building flowsheets
• Overview of thermodynamic options
• Flowsheet analysis through sensitivity studies and optimization
• Data reconciliation
• Continuous and batch distillation
• Dynamic simulation
• Reactors
• Heat exchangers
• Controllers 

• Azeotropic behavior and separation of azeotropic mixtures
  • Workshop homogeneous and heterogeneous azeotropic distillation
• Physical property sources, estimation (pure component and mixture behavior), experimental determination
• Solid-liquid equilibria and crystallization
• Binary and ternary liquid-liquid equilibria
• Extraction basics (Kremser, Hunter-Nash)
  
  • Extraction columns, balance lines
  • Combination of extraction and distillation
• Electrolyte systems
  • Workshop electrolyte mixtures (gas sweetening)

• Reaction kinetics and reactive distillation

• Piping networks, pumps, and valves

• Two-phase flow and emergency relief valves

• META UnitOp (liquid ring pump example)

• User UnitOp – Excel unit with mapping
  
  

• Modeling entire existing processes
• Avoiding common pitfalls in simulation
• Quantitative and qualitative use of simulation
• Manipulating thermodynamics to fit plant data
• Dealing with "unruly" plant data
• Using plant data in process flowsheets
• Simulation as an extension of your engineering thought process
• Using a laboratory to verify and investigate thermodynamics
• Course covers:
  • Recycle loops
  • Distillation (continuous and batch)
  • Advanced heat exchanger topics
  • Advanced controller topics
  • Finding and breaking azeotropes
  • Batch processes
  • Batch-to-continuous processes
  • Advanced electrolyte topics

• Customization of CHEMCAD using Microsoft Excel® and Visual Basic for Applications® (VBA)
• Using a worksheet as a front end for CHEMCAD
• Customizing UnitOps and calculations
• Simple data connection to an external workbook
• Examination of real equipment selection based on process performance
• Sizing of pipes, orifices, control valves, columns (packed and tray)
• Mass transfer calculation for sized packed columns
• Heat exchanger sizing using CC-THERM
• Two-phase vessel sizing
• Nodes to model real hydraulics
• Special calculation methods to help simulations converge:
  • Stream reference modules
  • Controllers (feed-forward and feedback)
  • UnitOp sequence groups