SimzLab

SimzLab delivers interactive education!

Check out the distributed dynamic process simulator in PureWaterlab's Division 3. This provides for simulation of chemical process plants with units located locally on your client computer or remotely on a server. Messages passed between local and remote units are sent in platform-independent XML text, so the units on each end can be written in different software on different computer hardware. Our future goal is to allow groups in different universities to collaborate on plant simulations.

Features: 

    - interactive simulations engage students in active learning
    - the power of a desktop application plus web access ~ SimzLab is a "rich Internet application"
    - use on- or off-line on Windows PCs or Macs
    - automatic update of files when on-line
    - students collaborate in the conference room
    - used by students from over 100 countries since 2003

Courses: 

    - ReactorLab ~ simulations of chemical reactors, see www.reactorlab.net see a screen capture below
    - PureWaterLab ~ water purification and reuse, see www.purewaterlab.org 
 
Get SimzLab: 

    - Windows version (4-September-2008, 3.2 MB)
    - Mac OS X version (4-September-2008, 4.4 MB)

Questions? Email: support at SimzLab dot com

Development of SimzLab has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation through awards including DUE-0443044.

Below is a screen capture from ReactorLab which shows a parallel reaction system in a batch reactor. The contents of the reactor are plotted continuously on the right side of the window (1 min of simulation time in 10 s real time). The user can change kinetic parameters, open and close valves, pause and resume the reaction and the simulation, and save data to disk files for analysis.



The author of SimzLab is Richard K. Herz. Courses distributed via SimzLab may have separate authorship.