Hi All, I have a question regarding process engg consultancy especially as a freelancer. When you decide to go at it on your own and without typical corporate resources, I wonder how do the consultants in general manage
without access to software like ASPEN PLUS/HYSYS (which are expensive to buy as an individual but are there in corporate environments)? does this limit the kind of problems that you can work on? and are there cheaper(or free) alternatives to this software for solving the engineering problems that come your way? Please let know your thoughts.
I am also interested to know typically what kind of problems or projects can a freelancing process modeler/engineer get that he can address without these software, thanks. (To do any kind of sizing or pinch analysis or costing or debottlenecking you do need access to some software right?)