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[Simprotek]

A new drying software package, Simprosys 1.01, is available for trial from www.simprotek.com

Simprosys is a software product developed by Simprotek Corporation (www.simprotek.com), designed specifically for drying and evaporation related process simulation. It is developed using the most advanced software technology .Net and C# in the Silicon Valley.

Simprosys 1.01 includes 19 unit operations, namely solids dryer, liquid dryer, cyclone, air filter, bag filter, electro-static precipitator, wet scrubber, scrubber condenser, fan/blower, compressor, steam jet ejector, pump, valve, heater, cooler, heat exchanger (which can be used as an evaporator), liquid-vapor separator, mixer and tee. It also includes a logical unit operation, viz. recycle, to simulate recycled gas or material stream, and two utilities, namely, humidity chart and unit converters. The humidity chart utility can be used to visualize either the state of a drying gas or an isenthalpic drying process. The unit converters utility covers all chemical engineering units.

In addition to heat/mass/pressure balance calculations in all the unit operations, Simprosys 1.01 also contains a simple dryer scoping model, a detailed cyclone rating model as well as simple and complex heat exchanger rating models for single phase heat transfer.

Since different units may be used in different countries, Simprosys 1.01 has a complete unit conversion system. Users can convert the inputs and outputs of a large flowsheet from one set of units to another with just one mouse click.

Simprosys can be used to simulate drying process, evaporation process, and combined evaporation and drying process. Using the unit operations provided by the software, users can construct any drying and evaporation related process they wish to model, design and analyze. They can also explore different arrangements of unit operations and experiment with different operating conditions to optimize their designs and operations. They can simulate not only almost any typical drying and evaporation related process but also recycled exhaust gas stream and product material stream in a drying process.

As an engineer, you can use this software package to design drying and evaporation related plants. Based on design requirements you can quickly layout the flowsheet and compute the heat/mass/pressure balance of the whole plant using this software and obtain the necessary process parameters such as the air flow rate to the dryer, the capacity and power requirements for the blower, the heat duty of the heater, the exhaust dust concentration of the cyclone or scrubber, etc. You then can choose equipment according to the simulation results. You can also simulate an existing plant by easily laying out the plant on a flowsheet with this software and input the operating conditions of the plant and see how efficient your current operation is. Then you can try different operating conditions and optimize your operation.

As a university professor, you will find this software is an efficient teaching tool for undergraduate and postgraduate students working on design and research projects in chemical engineering unit operations, food process engineering, agricultural engineering etc. With this software package students can do what-if analysis which otherwise would take unrealistically long time to accomplish. You can also use it as a teaching tool to show students the effects of the input parameters on the output parameters for a typical plant.

Practicing engineers and scientists can use Simprosys as a self-learning tool.

Simprosys is extremely user friendly with an intuitive user interface with maximum protection to prevent users from making simple mistakes. It also has an effective tutorial to teach users step by step how to use the software to simulate typical drying and evaporation related problems. Users of this software will require minimal self-training and effort to use it effectively. The typical calculations of a process that may take a skilled engineer several weeks to carry out, can now be accomplished in several hours with Simprosys.