Introduces students to the use of the two most popular commercially available simulators--ASPEN PLUS and HYSYS.Plant. An excellent supplement for core chemical engineering courses, this multimedia CD includes tutorials complete with voice segments, animations, and video segments that assist students in completing the input forms, in using models of the process units (including videos of the process units in a petrochemical complex), and in using the physical-property estimation systems.

The CD is organized both by content and by index, and driven by a Web-browser. The multimedia materials are designed to be used in parallel with ASPEN PLUS, version 11 or HYSYS.Plant, version 3.0, with one window open to the instructional materials and one to the simulator.

Minimum Hardware Specifications:
Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT, or Windows XP operating systems. The software requires either Netscape Communicator 4.x or better, or Internet Explorer 4.0 or better, to operate. The minimal configuration should include a Pentium-I 200 MHz processor, 64 Mb of RAM, a CD-ROM drive rated 16X, and a SVGA graphics card (with a 256 color palette, at least).

Since the multimedia CD-ROM is intended to be used in parallel with one of the supported simulators, it is strongly recommended that a Pentium III or better processor be used, with 128 Mb of RAM, a 24X CD-ROM drive, and a 17" screen. The software performs best when it is copied onto a hard drive, but 24X CD-ROMs provide comparable performance.