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Free CD Introduces Virtual Experiments in Reaction Engineering
BURLINGTON, MA (May 25, 2006) — 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:
- Analyze 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 industries 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 analyze chemical systems and develop new processes," states Ed Fontes, VP of Applications. "This CD will help users realize 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."
Availability
The CD "Introduction to the COMSOL Reaction Engineering Lab" is available immediately, free of charge. Request it at http://www.comsol.com/products/reaction/introkit.php
About the COMSOL product line
COMSOL Multiphysics is the first software environment to provide scientists, engineers, and researchers with integrated, best-in-class technology for modeling, simulating, and discovering any system with both single or multiple physics phenomena. A broad range of discipline-specific modules extends the COMSOL environment for chemical engineering, earth science, electromagnetics, heat transfer, MEMS, and structural mechanics applications. COMSOL also offers the COMSOL Reaction Engineering Lab®, which allows users to model reacting systems. COMSOL products are available for the Windows, Linux, Solaris, and the Macintosh operating systems. Full details about COMSOL Multiphysics and related products are available at www.comsol.com.
About COMSOL, Inc.
COMSOL was founded in 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden, and has grown to include offices in the Benelux, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and a US presence with offices in Burlington, MA, Los Angeles, CA, and Palo Alto, CA. Additional information about the company is available at www.comsol.com.
COMSOL, COMSOL Multiphysics, COMSOL Reaction Engineering Lab, and FEMLAB are registered trademarks of COMSOL AB. Other product or brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.