The Wolfram Solution forChemical EngineeringSimulate your chemical processes with ready-to-deploy, fully interactive models using a combination of powerful computation, statistics and optimization, instant interactivity, and built-in chemical data. One system, one integrated workflow. Underlying the Wolfram chemical engineering solution is the world's most sophisticated differential equation solving with automatic algorithm selection, self-checking precision control, and symbolic preprocessing–everything to get accurate results efficiently. |
Wolfram technologies include thousands of built-in functions that let you:
- Solve coupled nonlinear differential equations for chemical kinetic modeling and applications in transport phenomena
- Design and optimize unit operations such as distillation and adsorption processes in a chemical plant
- Develop thermodynamic models to predict vapor-liquid equilibria of non-ideal mixtures
- Compute Laplace transformations for process control applications
- Determine the numerical solution of transport equations, advanced heat and mass transfer problems, and other transport phenomena applications
- Perform economic viability analysis for chemical plant design using built-in economic, financial, geographic, and demographic data
- Improve system reliability
- Estimate the lifetime of mechanical assemblies and components
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Instantly create dynamic interfaces that allow you to vary parameters and gain useful insights from data, a feature especially useful for reaction engineering/kinetics, process design, and transport phenomena
Instant creation of interactive interfaces is not possible in other software -
Built-in, powerful statistical analysis and optimization routines for analyzing large amounts of data from experiments
Matlab requires extra-cost toolbox to perform statistical analysis -
Sophisticated typesetting for chemical and mathematical equations, standard word processing, and interactive applications in a single document
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Integrated automatic report generation to document tasks and instantly generate reports with graphics, text, and code
Matlab requires purchase of extra toolbox; Sage, Octave, and other freeware do not support automatic report generation -
Automated precision control and arbitrary-precision numerics produce highly accurate results
Fortran, Excel, Matlab, and other systems relying on finite-precision numerics can create serious errors due to lack of precision -
Advanced string and pattern matching and sequence alignment capabilities for biochemical applications
Matlab requires purchase of toolbox -
Built-in parallel computing capabilities for solving computation- or data-intensive problems on multicore computers
Matlab requires purchase of extra toolbox for parallel computing; all other major software systems require extensive programming to parallelize processes -
Seamless integration of numerics, symbolics, interactive graphics, and all other computational aspects in one document
Unique to Wolfram technologies
Chemical engineering specific capabilities:
- Built-in access to Wolfram|Alpha's extensive data on molecular, physical, and thermodynamic properties of thousands of chemical compounds »
- Instantly create interactive applications and vary parameters in real time to study multiparameter problems in transport phenomena, reaction engineering, kinetics, and more »
- Powerful statistical computation, analysis, and optimization routines for experimental data analysis, reaction engineering applications, and more »
- Easy import and export of process engineering and other data in a wide variety of formats »
- Solve highly nonlinear problems in transport phenomena and other areas with built-in arbitrary-precision numerics and automatic precision control »
- Estimate the lifetime of mechanical assemblies and components using built-in survival analysis functionality »
- Solve differential equations with discontinuities, hybrid discrete/continuous dynamical systems, and differential algebraic equations for applications in chemical kinetics, process control, and other areas »
- Complete functionality for reliability analysis, including importance measures for pinpointing subsystems that help improve system reliability »
- Built-in support for more than 4,500 units—including free–form linguistic entry, conversions, and dimensional consistency checking across graphics and numeric and symbolic calculations »
- Free-form linguistic input produces immediate results without the need for syntax »
- Instant connectivity to databases, web services, C/C++, Java, and .NET frameworks allows easy access to specialized data and code from a variety of sources »
- Load and access dynamic libraries and use built-in support for GPU computation with CUDA or OpenCL for high-speed, memory-efficient execution
- Automatic generation of reports with interactive graphics, code, and text immediately shared with other chemical engineers or colleagues using Wolfram CDF Player »
- Integrated environment for model building, statistical analysis, optimization, and generation of interactive reports and applications
Wolfram SystemModeler is the most complete physical modeling and simulation tool for high-fidelity modeling. Capabilities include:
- Build models of complex, multidomain systems using simple drag-and-drop of ready-made components »
- Design and simulate real-world systems that exhibit rapid changes or discontinuities
- Connect seamlessly with Mathematica for the ultimate integrated modeling, simulation, and analysis workflow.
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