Understand quantitative model step-growth polymerization plans and how to predict properties of the product polymer with the essential information in Step-Growth Polymerization Process Modeling and Product Design. If you want to learn how to simulate step-growth polymerization processes using commercial software and seek an in-depth, quantitative understanding of how to develop, use, and deploy these simulations, consult this must-have guide. The book focuses on quantitative relationships between key process input variables (KPIVs) and key process output variables (KPOVs), and the integrated modeling of an entire polymer manufacturing train.

Distillation Design and Control Using Aspen Simulation introduces the current status and future implications of this vital technology from the dual perspectives of steady-state design and dynamics. Where traditional design texts have focused mainly on the steady-state economic aspects of distillation design, William Luyben also addresses such issues as dynamic performance in the face of disturbances.

Utilizing the commercial simulators Aspen Plus and Aspen Dynamics, the text guides future and practicing chemical engineers first in the development of optimal steady-state designs of distillation systems, and then in the development of effective control structures.

As chemical engineering technology advances, so does the complexity of the problems that arise. The problems that chemical engineers and chemical engineering students face today can no longer be answered with programs written on a case-by-case basis. Introduction to Chemical Engineering Computing teaches professionals and students the kinds of problems they will have to solve, the types of computer programs needed to solve these problems, and how to ensure that the problems have been solved correctly.

This indispensable text features programs such as Aspen PlusT and acquaints readers with the advantages of each.

This book by industry expert William Luyben illustrates the techniques and fundamentals to develop, design, and test plantwide regulatory control schemes with commercial dynamic simulation packages. Featuring large number of figures representing models of plantwides, flowsheets with controllers, responses of the systems, important parameter profiles, and also tables with stream data, the book also includes some very useful considerations concerning software, as well as a disk containing applications in HYSYS and Aspen Dynamics.

This text and accompanying CD present the steps for designing chemical products and processes, beginning with societal needs. Emphasis is placed on quantitative problem solving, including the use of heuristics, simulation, and optimization. The latest design strategies are described, most of which have been improved significantly with the advent of computers, mathematical programming methods, and artificial intelligence.

Introduces students to the use of the two most popular commercially available simulators--ASPEN PLUS and HYSYS.Plant. An excellent supplement for core chemical engineering courses, this multimedia CD includes tutorials complete with voice segments, animations, and video segments that assist students in completing the input forms, in using models of the process units (including videos of the process units in a petrochemical complex), and in using the physical-property estimation systems. The CD is organized both by content and by index, and driven by a Web-browser. The multimedia materials are designed to be used in parallel with ASPEN PLUS, version 11 or HYSYS.Plant, version 3.0, with one window open to the instructional materials and one to the simulator.

For decades, control theory has been taught using transfer functions, frequency-domain analysis, and Laplace transform mathematics. For linear systems – like those from the electromechanical areas from which these classical control techniques emerged – this approach is well suited. For chemical processes, often characterized by non-linearity and large doses of dead time, classical control techniques have known limitations.

In today’s simulation-rich environment, the right combination of hardware and software is available to implement a "hands-on" approach to process control system design. Engineers and students are now able to experiment on virtual plants that capture the important non-idealities of the real world, and can test even the most outlandish of control structures without resorting to non-intuitive mathematics, or placing real plants at risk.

The purpose of this text is to provide a practical, hands-on introduction to process control by using only time-based representations of the process and the associated instrumentation and control. We believe this book is the first to treat the topic without relying at all upon Laplace transforms and the classical, frequency-domain techniques. For those wishing to advance their knowledge of process control beyond this first introductory exposure, we highly recommend understanding, even mastering, the classical techniques. However, as an introductory treatment of the topic, and for those chemical engineers not wishing to specialize in process control, but rather to extract something practical and applicable, we believe our approach hits the mark.

This book is a pioneering effort by two of the world's top researchers. The authors have fashioned a text which develops models which are the basis for software tools for conceptual design. The book clearly addresses both analysis and design with sharp attention to supplying mathematical correctness and providing physical insight. A software supplement will accompany the text in a student version.