IMO STATE POLYTECHNIC

(ORLU CAMPUS)

A TERM PAPER
ON

CHEMCAD
BY

IWUEKE CHIDI EMMANUEL

2020/HND/CHE/89637

COURSE TITLE:
COMPUTER APPLICATION IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

COURSE CODE:
COM 321
What is ChemCAD?
ChemCAD is an integrated suite of intuitive chemical process
simulation software. It is designed to increase productivity, handle
the toughest chemical process models, and help with daily tasks. It
has been used for equipment design, equipment sizing, process
development, and dynamic simulations. Simulation with ChemCAD
is based on a range of thermodynamic models and a large database
of over 2000 components for gases, liquids, solids, and electrolytes.
Developed by Chemstations over 40 years ago, it has continuously
evolved to meet the requirements of chemical engineers. Most
processes in the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical,
mechanical, and environmental process technologies can be
simulated using ChemCAD.
ChemCAD product suite
The ChemCAD software suite includes six products that can be
bought individually or as a bundle.
CC-Steady State
It runs a steady-state simulation of continuous chemical processes.
It has libraries of thermodynamic methods, chemical components,
and unit operations that allow you to simulate processes from lab
scale to full scale. Suited for anybody who wants to rate or design
processes in steady state.

CC-Dynamics
It can perform dynamic flowsheet analysis, PID loop tuning,
operability check-out, operator training, and soft sensor
functionality. Suited for anybody who wants to rate or design
dynamic processes.

CC-Therm
It can accurately perform the sizing of a heat exchanger. It can also
design and rate shell-andtube, plate-and-frame, air-cooled, and
double-pipe exchangers. Suited for anybody who wants to rate or
design heat exchangers.
CC-Batch
It is a batch distillation simulation software that can design and
preview scenarios with intuitive, operation step-based input. It is
flexible, with many operating modes, can minimize intermediate
‘slop’ cuts, optimize batch production, and increase productivity.
Suitable for anybody who wants to design or rate a batch distillation
column.
CC-Safety Net
With their piping and safety relief network simulation software,
they can comprehensively analyze any pipe network. Suitable for
anybody who wants to design or rate piping networks or safety
relief systems.

CC-Flash
It can calculate phase equilibria and physical properties with great
accuracy for pure components and mixtures. Suitable for anybody
who wants the physical property and phase equilibrium data and
those who want property prediction and regression.

Features and benefits

1. It is affordable, flexible, customizable, and adapts to your
approach.
2. Can develop attractive and insightful graphics and reports that
can be exported.
3. It is easily scalable from lab to bench to plant.
4. It has a vast thermodynamics library, a large database of
standard components, and a wide range of unit operations.
5. Excellent technical support to help you tackle any challenge.
6. Smooth transition functionality between dynamic and steady-
state modes

Applications of ChemCAD
ChemCad simulation software has applications in a wide variety of
industries.

BioProcessing
Whether you're a plant, process, or design engineer, CHEMCAD's
simulation capabilities can help you create, test, and preview
different scenarios. Draw insights from various levels of model
fidelity to address use cases such as facility design and operation,
process optimization, facility expansion/retrofits, and feasibility
studies for new processes.
You can solve key problems involving bio-based materials using
rigorous process simulation. You can perform facility design,
operation, expansion, process optimization, and feasibility studies
for new processes like food-grade ethanol production, biodiesel
production, etc.

Industry applications for CHEMCAD include:

 Fuel-based ethanol production

 Food-grade ethanol production
 Biodiesel production
 Food and nutritional additives

Chemical Processing
ChemCAD is used for a wide range of tasks like new process design,
de-bottlenecking, and troubleshooting in this field. The software
also helps with industry-specific applications like specialty chemical
processing, commodity chemical processing, tool processing, etc.

Education
Its user-friendly interface and learning support make it an ideal
process simulation software for the academic community.
Universities and trade schools can use the software to teach and
research thermodynamics, plant design, and project economics.

Equipment Manufacturing
It makes it easier to design, validate, and benchmark processes that
enhance equipment manufacturing. It can perform equipment
sizing, process sample design, control system design for various
companies like fuel cell manufactures, specialized membrane
manufacturers, analytical instrument suppliers, etc.

Oil and Gas

Production and process engineers work with ChemCAD to model
acid gas treating natural gas, design LNG networks, and run refinery
start-up and shutdown scenarios.

Pharmaceuticals
You can tackle various important issues like facility expansion,
chemical process optimization, retrofitting, etc. It can be used in a
wide range of chemical processes involved in API manufacturing,
Intermediate manufacturing, and R&D.

Sustainability
It can help you design and optimize sustainable chemical processes
and products to reduce their environmental life cycle impact. It can
also address issues like recycling and waste management, and
recovery.

Reference
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