Technical paper
New Directions in Process Simulation
In today's competitive economy, the engineer must become as productive as possible. One means of increasing productivity is to use process simulation packages and other engineering computer aids to their maximum utility. In addition to increasing the engineer's productivity, process simulation packages may be used to analyze operating problems in existing plants and to design new facilities. In general, the virtues of process simulation have become well recognized in the industry and most process engineers have some type of simulation capability available to them. In the last few years, major emphasis has been placed on increasing the engineer''s productivity with process simulation packages. This includes the "up front" time to learn to use the simulator as well as the time to produce a completed analysis once the engineer has become familiar with the simulator. This need for increased engineering productivity has generated a new type of tool called interactive process simulation.
In today’s competitive economy, the engineer must become as productive as possible. One means of increasing productivity is to use process simulation packages and other engineering computer aids to their maximum utility. In addition to increasing the engineer’s productivity, process simulation packages may be used to analyze operating problems in existing plants and to design new facilities. In general, the virtues of process simulation have become well recognized in the industry and most process engineers have some type of simulation capability available to them. In the last few years, major emphasis has been placed on increasing the engineer’’s productivity with process simulation packages. This includes the “up front” time to learn to use the simulator as well as the time to produce a completed analysis once the engineer has become familiar with the simulator. This need for increased engineering productivity has generated a new type of tool called interactive process simulation.