3rd Edition

Introduction to Software for Chemical Engineers

Edited By Mariano Martín Martín Copyright 2025
888 Pages 25 Color & 476 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

888 Pages 25 Color & 476 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

The field of chemical engineering and its link to computer science is in constant evolution, and engineers have an ever-growing variety of tools at their disposal to tackle everyday problems. Introduction to Software for Chemical Engineers, Third Edition provides a quick guide to the use of various computer packages for chemical engineering applications. It covers a range of software... Read more

Front Matter.  Part I. Modeling and Simulation in the Chemical Engineering CV and Its Application to Industry.  1. Modeling, Simulation and Optimization in the Chemical Engineering Curriculum.  2. Modeling, Simulation and Optimization in the Process and Commodities Industries.  Part II. General Tools.  3. Excel for Chemical Engineering.  4. MATLAB® for Chemical Engineering.  5. PTC Mathcad for Chemical Engineering.  6. Python and Pyomo for Chemical Engineering.  7. Data Analysis for Chemical Engineers: Introduction to R.  8. Minitab for Chemical Engineering.  9. Statistical Analysis with SPSS for Chemical Engineering.  Part III. Detailed Equipment Design and Analysis.  10. Computational Fluid Dynamics and Multiphysics.  11. Discrete Element Method Applications in Process Engineering.  Part IV. Process Simulation.  12. Process Flowsheeting in Chemical Engineering.  13. Introduction to gPROMS for Chemical Engineering.  14. EES for Chemical Engineering.  15. Modular Process Simulators.  16. Life Cycle Assessment in Chemical Processes: Introduction to SimaPro.  Part V. Process Design and Optimization.  17. Algebraic Modeling and Optimization.  18. Use of GAMS for Optimal Process Synthesis and Operation.  19. AIMMS for Scheduling of Chemical Plants.  20. Plant Location: Supply Chain Management.  21. Dynamics Optimization in Process Systems.  22. Optimization in Chemical and Biological Engineering Using Julia.  23. Fast Deployment of Optimization Applications Using SolverStudio.  24. Use of Lingo for Product Design.  25. Control Station for Chemical Engineering: LOOP PRO.  

Biography

Mariano Martín Martín is Full Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Salamanca and the leader of its Sustainable Processes and Products Lab. He graduated cum laude in an integrated program (BSc+MEng), and acquired a PhD in chemical engineering from the same university. Prof. Martín previously worked as a postdoctoral engineer at Procter & Gamble, where he received the P&G Award for his outstanding contributions to modeling and simulation, and as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University. Prof. Martín has been a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, CMU, Texas A&M, University of Leeds, University of Birmingham, Plapiqui, Udelar, Universidad de Guanajuato, UNAL, and University of Maribor, among others. He has published over 190 papers, has an h-index of 42 (Scopus), and has edited five other books.