(57c) Using Process Simulators in the Study, Design and Control of Distillation Columns for Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Courses

Today the high school centers must teach to their students the software that will be used by them at work. The present paper shows the importance to promote a closer relation between the engineering computers programs offered by companies likes Aspen Technolgy Inc., and the chemical engineering students. The methodology consists in creating tutorials capable of showing in an interesting way, their subjects to the students through engineering software packages. The main them treated in this tutorials is the simulation and design of distillation columns including a brief look in to the control of distillation columns with dynamic simulations. Three case studies are developed, where the subjects of design and control for a binary simple system and the development of a simulation for a complex ternary system are studied.