Top 5 software for Chemical Engineers and students

Aspen Plus (Process Simulator) →

 

This program is an essential for chemical engineers and it covers all major areas in chemical Engineering such as Heat Transfer, Mass Transfer, Process calculation, CRE, Equipment Design and more importantly Thermodynamics.

 MATLAB (Mathematical Simulation)→

 

This program can be find using by chemical engineers to develop user define model and also add an edge for chemical engineers in programming language, very useful for mathematical modelling and with Simulink extension you can do limitless.

ANSYS Fluent (Flow simulator) →

 

commercial CFD tool very useful for flow simulation, covers all major application in , MASS , MOMENTUM and ENERGY.

COMSOL Multiphysics →

 

 is another software widely used in Chemical Engineering now. This software also has a pretty vast physical properties and process models database for modeling various processes. This software is not especially dedicated to Chemical Engineering, but Fluid Mechanics Toolbox and Chemical Reaction Engineering Toolbox are the toolboxes with a variety of processes used in Chemical Engineering. Fluent is one more software to simulate fluid flow in various systems.

Excel spread sheet  → 

 

Although it seems very simple, Excel can be used for serious tasks if you know Excel and chemical engineering fundamentals. Unlike you are using someone else program you can customize the Excel program as you want and develop a model for a certain problem as you want. Good for limited scope problem solving.