My take on Process Simulation
You stay in a two-bedroom apartment. You enjoy going home because it is a place of rest. You eat in your home. You sleep in your home. Basically, your home is your comfort zone. It is quite logical to take care of it since you want to live healthy. Perpetually you neglect to clean it and you start noticing unwanted dirt, rodents and others. Consequently, your body starts to show symptoms that you are not living a healthy lifestyle.
‘Go and clean your house!’ your body said.
‘Nah, I’ll do that later’ you said.
Your health starts deteriorating and luckily for you, you were able to call a house cleaning firm before things got out of hand and came to an agreement. Your house is clean now and your health is improving, the end.
(Author: Daniel the raconteur)
As witty as my story is (that’s what I’m telling myself), the same ideology can also be applied for the people living on planet earth where ‘you’ in this case is ‘the people’, while ‘home’ is ‘planet Earth’. With everything going on, from climate change to the emission of greenhouse gases. Our pragmatic step is simply to rely on Process Simulation.
What is Process Simulation?
Process Simulation is simply treating raw material into finished products using various equipment using a chemical engineering software.
The epiphany that you can know the quantity and the operating conditions of a product without actually building the apparatus is incredible!
I believe that if process simulation softwares can be accessible to a large number of avid engineers, innovative processes that reduce the emission of greenhouse gases will be attainable faster and better. The challenge is that only a few simulation softwares are actually open source. In addition, based on my experience, simulation softwares tend to be engineered than user-friendly. It will be difficult to get people excited about a software that is convoluted to use.
Regardless, process simulation is the way forward for a greener pasture.
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In retrospect, concerning process simulation, why is there only a modicum of open source softwares? Aren’t we all trying to make the world a better place?
