Chemical Engineering Balances Using Excel

[ChemE911]

Does anybody know of a good Excel-based program for performing mass and energy balances that is not too expensive, ie. above $5000?

I found a demo at

http://www.iengineer.systems

that seems OK and is free for up to 15 streams with recycle but I am looking at all options.

Thanks

 

[apetri]

What do you mean for mass & energy balance ?

For solving recycles etc. there are free simulators, see for example Coco Simulator (

http://www.cocosimulator.org)

For fluid properties / phase equilibria / simulation within Excel / Matlab / Mathcad I use mainly Prode Properties (

http://www.prode.com/en/properties.htm),

and so on...

 

[ChemE911]

Thanks Apetri,

That was helpful. I was mostly thinking about streams with recycle. I work mostly with solids and liquids and steam.

 

[Iomcube]

Check out DWSIM ...it has builtin spreadsheet plus an Excel properties addon ...much like Prode Properties

 

[xeng]

I did not know DWSIM but according this review

http://www.engineeringnewworld.com/?p=168

it's a full featured simulator, much like Aspen Hysys...