Need Equilibrium Software Recomendation 1

[waynef43]

All,

I'm a process engineer who's new to the power industry. I will in the future need to model the chemical equilibrium for the combustion of coal/NG and possibly fuel oil to be used in the design of a proprietary chemical process for the control of criteria pollutants.

I'd appreciate a recommendation for a tool which will run on my Windows 7 laptop and not break the bank. Thanks.

 

[ccfowler]

Try Excel or any other good spreadsheet. This is an excellent way to set up models of even very complex systems. An inherent benefit is that the user (you) gets to set and understand the details of all of the idealizations and assumptions built into the modeling computations.

I like Excel for its very nice way of using named cells so that expressions are very easy to read and understand rather than needing to remember that cell "X219" refers to the pressure at some specific location or cell "AB231" refers to the temperature at some other location.

Valuable advice from a professor many years ago: First, design for graceful failure. Everything we build will eventually fail, so we must strive to avoid injuries or secondary damage when that failure occurs. Only then can practicality and economics be properly considered.