Free CD teaches scientists and engineers how to easily access modeling techniques in order to accelerate the analysis of real-world reaction applications
A reactor is the pulsating heart of any chemical process, whether in industry or in the laboratory.
Although a reactor might be surrounded by other equipment such as separators, filters, and cleaning equipment, it is the key element where the reactions happens.
Thus engineers have long studied them closely, often using modeling techniques and computer simulations.
A CD entitled 'Introduction to the Comsol Reaction Engineering Lab' teaches scientists and engineers how to easily access modeling techniques in order to accelerate the analysis of real-world reaction applications.
Reaction engineering exemplified.
The CD focuses on three broad categories of tasks or modeling stages, which this media presents with the help of real-world models:.
Analyse reaction performance in perfectly mixed systems.
This section includes example models from pharmaceuticals (the analysis of the synthesis of ibuprofen) and process industries (the neutralization of chlorine in a scrubber).
Compare results to experimental data and then validate/calibrate a model.
Here an example from bioengineering explores the degradation of pDNA in blood plasma.
Perform a space-dependent simulation in 1D, 2D, or 3D.
Two examples from the process industry illustrate this aspect and explain chemical vapor deposition of GaAs as well as a separate study of competing reactions in a reactor.
In these fully documented examples, users are guided through the entire modeling process by an animated audio/visual presentation.
All examples are based on modeling and simulation in the Comsol Reaction Engineering Lab.
Learn from virtual experiments.
"Chemists and chemical engineers will be amazed at how much more quickly they can analyse chemical systems and develop new processes," states Ed Fontes, VP of applications.
"This CD will help users realise the benefits of reaction engineering modeling and simulation.
"Furthermore, this CD will also be a big hit in any educational setting.
"Students can learn how today's simulation tools put the focus on a problem's chemistry and physics, and how they can perform virtual experiments to gain an understanding of real-life chemical reaction processes".
The CD 'Introduction to the Comsol Reaction Engineering Lab' is available immediately, free of charge.
Comsol Multiphysics is a scientific-software environment for the modeling and simulation of any physics-based system.
A particular strength is its ability to account for multiphysics phenomena.
Optional modules add discipline-specific tools for chemical engineering, earth science, electromagnetics, heat transfer, Mems and structural mechanics.
Other products include Comsol Reaction Engineering Lab, which allows users to model reacting systems; and Comsol Script is a Matlab-compatible programming language that works both as a general-purpose scientific computational tool and provides a textual based interface to Comsol Multiphysics models.
The Comsol products are available for the Windows, Linux, Solaris, and the Macintosh operating systems.
