by Rodolfo Rodrigues on December 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am in Didactic application, Softwares with 2 comments
Tagged with chemical reactor engineering, didactic software, free
The Reactor Lab is a didactic software program that provides simulations of a variety of chemical reactors. Students can actively learn about chemical reactions and reactors by performing experiments and analyzing data — quickly, safely, and inexpensively. The program can be downloaded free of charge and is available for most computers and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The Lab is not a general purpose simulator.
Those who have used the Lab range from high school chemistry students to chemical engineering university and graduate students, to professionals in industry. Little or no training is required for operation of the lab because of its consistent design. In addition, information about each object is displayed at the bottom of the window as the cursor passes over that object.
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by Rodolfo Rodrigues on September 2nd, 2008 at 2:33 pm in Process simulation, Softwares
Tagged with cape-open, coco, free, process simulator, sequential modular simulator

COCO (CAPE-OPEN to CAPE-OPEN) is a free-of-charge CAPE-OPEN compliant steady-state simulation environment consisting of the following components:
- COFE — the CAPE-OPEN Flowsheet Environment is an intuitive graphical user interface to chemical flowsheeting. COFE has sequential solution algorithm using automatic tear streams. COFE displays properties of streams, deals with unit-conversion and provides plotting facilities.
- TEA — COCO’s Thermodynamics for Engineering Applications, is based on the code of the thermodynamic library of ChemSep and includes a data bank of over 150 commonly used chemicals.
- COUSCOUS — the CAPE-OPEN Unit-operations Simple package is shipped with COCO. It contains a splitter, a mixer, heat-exchangers, pumps and reactors amongst other unit operations.
- CORN — the CAPE-OPEN Reaction Numerics package that comes with COCO facilitates specifying any kind of kinetic or equilibrium reaction. Simple reactor units, like conversion reactors, CSTRs and plug flow reactors that can use the CORN package come with the COUSCOUS package.
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Graphical flowsheeting environment

Unit operations
