Overview
Interactive Process Simulation
SimWiz is an interactive platform containing a suite of virtual plants ranging from single units and plant sections to full processing plants. Developed in Python and powered by an industry standard process simulator, SimWiz emulates a DCS environment to operate and visualize chemical plants in different scenarios, as well as easily collect and analyze data. The user interface is fully menu-based so that users are not required to have any knowledge of a specific programming language. Because of its modularity, SimWiz can be used across the entire Chemical Engineering curricula.
Capabilities
From Units to Full Plants
Applications
Using SimWiz for Teaching and Training
SimWiz allows students and engineers to:.
- Learn about system dynamics
- Understand the behavior of typical unit operations
- Perform mass and energy balances around different control volumes
- Perform data processing and reconciliation
- Design and test control systems for single units as well as integrated plants
- Implement and test alternative control configurations
- Perform startup and shutdown procedures
- Generate realistic datasets for advanced data analytics