Simulation of Chemical engineering processes using COCO.

Course details

Course description

This course introduces you to chemical engineering and shows you how common industrial processes such as Steam Methane Reforming, Steam power plants, Cracking of Ethane, Purification of ethanol and several other processes can be simulated using a process simulation software.

 Process simulation is a much needed skill in the Oil & Gas, Chemical, Petrochemical and Energy industry. Build Industrial Chemical Processes right there on your computer and see what effect a change in some of the Process Conditions would have on the yield of the process.

This is a fully hands on course.

How the course is set

This course is designed for anyone with a little knowledge of Chemistry and an interest in Simulation of Industrial Chemical Processes. Each section has lectures dedicated to covering the required theoretical background to the course and also has screen videos to show how the process of interest is simulated using the COCO process simulator software. We would not just discuss chemical processes, you would actually build these processes by yourself.

External resources such as video animations, YouTube videos and Wikipedia pages which would make the concepts taught easier to understand are also included in the external resources section. Since this course is designed to give you a practical skill which you can use in the workplace, there are lots of quizzes which gauge your ability to use the software.

The first section teaches some of the basic concepts you would need to be able to model chemical processes such as an Introduction to Chemical engineering, Unit operations and the Concept behind process simulation. The lecture which covers thermodynamics would be coming soon.

The second section shows you how to get your PC set up for this course.

The remaining sections of the course focuses on using the process simulation software COCO to model various chemical processes in a hands on manner.