Wolfram|The Wolfram Solution for Chemical Engineering

The Wolfram Solution for Chemical Engineering

Simulate 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.

The Wolfram Edge

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

How Wolfram Compares

Does your current tool set have these advantages?

• 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
  Unique to Wolfram technologies
• 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

Key Capabilities

Wolfram technologies include thousands of built-in functions for computation, modeling, visualization, development and deployment »

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 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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