Chemical Process Optimization Tips with the Best Software for the Chemical Industry

In order to organize the trials and experiments required to define the operational and design parameters for the process that will be optimized, we are required to consider different ways of thinking and, more importantly, of defining deferent levels.

The idea of optimizing a process can be a very theoretical one when we utilize specific experimental data or knowledge written in literature and try to find the best conditions possible to generate via theoretical and statistical tools. The tools give us operational and chemical or physical parameters that we need to apply to this process to generate the best outcome possible. The point is that the best outcome as possible from the lab may be impossible to generate with the actual equipment we use in our company. And sometimes the answer is even impossible to generate in the realistic physics environment we have in the world.

Finding the answer is very important because the optimization of the chemical process mainly concerns the capabilities we have. The optimum should be created in a realistic situation. In order to have realistic situations, we need to elaborate what our possibilities are in the next step; based on the possibilities available for us, we can then evaluate what the best option for us will be. And for us in this industry, it will be the best process we can manage according to our capabilities. Once we know that this is the situation, and we understand that we are working with a completely practical scenario, we will need to use chemical mixing software that will provide realistic results and not only theoretical results. So, when we use software regarding unit operations in the chemical industry and are applying the models of the unit operation to know how the process will perform, this offer should be connected to a realistic situation. We should not use only theoretical assumptions from textbooks that try to explain the basic of the unit operation, because when we encounter realistic and more complex situations in the industry, those textbook processes are not able to generate some simulation or confidence results that will be representative of what will happen in the next step.

So, the best software we can use in the chemical industry to generate chemical process optimization is software that represents the realistic physics, because we know that most of the manufacturing processes are in sterile vessels. We must use software that is representative and generates numbers that represent the physics that we are applying so the chemicals interact and generate the process that we’re looking for.

VisiMix is that software. It is based on semi-empirical models that we adapted using the main theories of fluid mechanics for the sterile vessel. With the huge data we collect on empirical experiments and data, we verify the models for the specific application in the sterile vessel. The main goal of this software is to be representative of the empirical models and for this kind of operation.