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[BehnamPro]

Hi everybody,

Please introduce me the best software used to design a reactor.

Thanx in advance.

[chemsep05]

HYSYS

[samuray_x]

to the best of my knowledge, the best ware to design a reactor is the brainware, that is an indepth understanding of applying mass & energy balance principles to the perfomance of a chemical reaction taking place in a reactor. I usually consult Fogler's Chemical Reaction Engineering book, and use the recommended polymath that comes with that book. Beside polymath, we can use MATLAB to compare the results.

HYSYS offers another advantage for us for simulating the reactor system. It skips the steps of arranging the system of equations and reducing the work of collecting physicochemical data required to simulate a reaction system. In a HYSYS simulation, we can just pick the reactor module we want to simulate, either kinetic, conversion, or equilibrium reactor. Enter the required parameters according to the chosen module.

So, i guess my reply to this post here is not on which software is the best but i conclude the best path to an indepth understanding of a reactor simulation is a solid understanding and familiarity of how to arrange equations for a reaction system, but when the reactor system becomes too complicated to be simulated with a mathematical package (MATLAB, POLYMATH), then it's the turn of Process Simulator Package to simulate it.

Thank you.
albert (Nat'l insititute of Tech. - Indonesia)