“Introduction to Chemical Engineering Simulations” is the latest in the suite of Introduction Kit CDs containing tutorials for engineers, researchers, scientists and educators. This free resource explains how multiphysics tools can analyze and simulate a wide variety of chemical processes, including fluid flow, transport phenomena, and reaction kinetics, while speeding up product development and reducing costs. The first tutorials provide a broad overview of multiphysics, explaining key concepts and how to apply them to solve chemical engineering problems.

Essential Mobile enables a user with a handheld mobile device to collect and process information from facility locations and upload it directly via a wireless connection or a batch process into the manufacturer’s centralized Essential Suite platform for environmental compliance management. This saves the time and costs associated with manual data collection, and eliminates the need for a technician to return to a stationary computer.

The 2009 edition of PVElite pressure vessel and heat exchanger design and analysis software has been updated to contain: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Section VIII Div. 2 2007 A-08 and its databases; the ASME Code 2008 updates; and British and European Norm (EN) code material updates. Its productivity features include the modeling of round, circular and square vessel clips for different loads and the ability to use American National Standards Institute (ANSI) flanges for heat exchanger analysis.

The latest release of the long-running PSI-Plot technical plotting and data processing software, PSI-Plot V. 9, incorporates 30 more features than the previous release, including a new project environment, user-defined macros, real-time plotting, support for Microsoft Access data format, and a Poisson regression function, as well as more than 100 predefined fitting models. With new plot types and axis scales, its plot wizard feature creates user-desired plots in a convenient and intuitive way.

InfoLink Process Historian combines the manufacturer’s Trend Historian and Trend Link software, the Software Toolbox’s symbol library, and optional XLReporter from SyTech to provide a real-time historical view of a process. This software package can retrieve historical data and allow the user to review trends, human-machine-interface (HMI) screens, and reports exactly as they occurred.

The 2009 edition of the COMSOL Conference CD contains more than 275 technical papers, 195 presentations, and 14 downloadable and ready-to-run models in COMSOL Multiphysics software. It also includes 91 animations and movie clips that illustrate multiphysics modeling across all disciplines of science, industrial and space research, engineering, medical research, and education. This resource is free upon request.

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Healex Systems Ltd. have collaborated to make Agilent’s ChemStation chromatography software support Healex’s ChemLaunch remote instrument access and control module. Combined with the OpenLAB laboratory operating system, this configuration provides an integrated software environment for large-scale, distributed analytical labs. It provides a single point of contact that streamlines administration of ChemStation/ChemLaunch operations.

The CADWorx fieldPipe for CloudWorx tool facilitates building intelligent, specification-driven models by bringing point-cloud scan readings from Leica Cloudworx into the CADWorx fieldPipe model. The program calculates the center and diameter of the pipe run by selecting one point on the surface of a pipe cylinder. With all parameters set, the user can accurately place piping components using the point cloud data in the model.

The latest version of ALGOR finite element analysis (FEA) software, V23, significantly upgrades its computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools. It has “smart” bonded contact with multi-point constraints that bond the surfaces of unmatched meshes, which makes hand-built models easier to tie together and computer-aided design (CAD) models easier to mesh. It includes a utility that generates vertices and beams to replace non-essential surfaces to reduce model size for quicker analysis.

Version 5.1 of H1 Interoperability Test Kit (ITK) supports temperature transducer blocks, device description 5.1 functionality, and field diagnostics profiles, enhancing organization and integration of device diagnostics (DD) within the manufacturer’s fieldbus systems. The kit verifies the functionality of an H1 (31.25 kbit/s) device and its conformity with the Foundation Fieldbus function block and transducer block specifications. It troubleshoots and debugs devices, and includes all hardware and software that are required to ensure complete device interoperability.