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Chemical & Process Industries

Reactor kinetics, distillation columns, mixing/blending processes, safety relief systems

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Aspen HYSYS Reactor Modeling: Kinetic and Equilibrium Reactors for Chemical Process Design

Aspen HYSYS provides a comprehensive suite of reactor models—from simple conversion reactors to rigorous kinetic PFRs—enabling chemical engineers to accurately simulate, optimize, and troubleshoot reactor performance. This article covers reactor type selection, kinetic data entry best practices, thermodynamic package coupling, and sensitivity analysis workflows.

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COMSOL Multiphysics 6.4 Delivers 5x GPU Speedup, New Granular Flow Module, and LLM-Assisted Simulation

COMSOL releases version 6.4 of its flagship multiphysics simulation platform, featuring NVIDIA cuDSS GPU acceleration delivering 5x speedups, a new DEM-based Granular Flow Module for pharmaceutical and chemical processing applications, a time-explicit dynamic analysis framework for impact and crash simulations, and optional LLM-assisted simulation via GPT-5, DeepSeek, and Google Gemini.

By Jeff 93 views