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CHEMCAD

Supercharge efficiency with simulation software that fits into any chemical engineering workflow.

Chemical engineering continuously evolves. Choose a highly customizable, comprehensive software suite capable of keeping pace, all for one low price.

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Highly Adaptable Solution

Rapidly tailor simulations to virtually any process scenario, ensuring seamless adaptation as project needs evolve.

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Comprehensive Support

Accessible technical support engineers to help you use the software and address every task, project, and job.

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Rigorous Process Modeling

Harness advanced thermodynamics and unit‑operation libraries to simulate and optimize complex chemical systems.

Facilitate large projects

Equip your team with CHEMCAD's integrated process simulation modules so they can work through extensive projects more efficiently.

  • Process development
    • Incorporate lab-measured data to refine physical properties or create custom components
    • Direct lab experiments and pilot plant runs
    • Scale up from lab to pilot, and pilot to production
  • Dynamic simulations
    • Control system design
    • Safety analyses
  • Process intensification studies
  • Energy efficiency/optimization
  • Data reconciliation
  • Process economics

Manage smaller projects

Streamline processes in smaller projects and improve workflow with CHEMCAD, featuring an intuitive interface that helps you save time.

  • Troubleshooting/Process Improvement
  • Equipment design
    • Distillation with mass transfer calculation
    • Relief system design/rating with DIERS
  • Reporting
    • Equipment/process costing
    • Process safety analyses
    • Regulatory compliance reports
    • Heat and material balance reporting
  • Model potential customer systems to sell equipment and/or processes
Manage smaller projects

Employ Integrated Solutions

Seamlessly integrate CHEMCAD process simulation software with other programs and accelerate progress in larger, ongoing projects.
  • Integrated solutions
    • Process/plant performance monitoring
    • Model predictive control
    • Real-time optimizations
    • CHEMCAD as the engine for other applications
  • MATLAB® and Simulink®
  • Excel "wrappers" for simulations
  • Microsoft Visual Basic® for Applications
  • Operator training systems
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Unmatched Support

Our outstanding technical support engineers understand chemical engineers' challenges and are happy to help you use the software to address every task, every project, every job.

Take advantage of:
  • Phone and e-mail access to high-level customer support engineers
  • Customer portal with robust knowledge base
  • Ticketing system to track feature requests and software improvements
  • Helpful library of training videos
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Results Explore Customer Stories
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$320,000 dollars saved per year

Removing the stripper bottleneck for annual steam and electrical cost reduction.

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$120,000 steam dollars saved each year

Simulating a column to resolve a pipe fouling issue that plagued a feed to a particular distillation.

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-10% utility costs reduced

Using CC-THERM fouling factor calculations to save $12,000 per month in utilities.

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$250,000 dollars saved in a single project

Helping to complete new plants based on simulation models that far outpace previous ones.

Who We Serve

Model Faster. Scale Smarter. Spend Less.

CHEMCAD empowers process engineers, R&D chemists, and plant-design teams in bulk and specialty chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food & beverage—any operation that needs rigorous, intuitive simulation to validate concepts, optimize energy use, and de-risk capital projects before committing spend.

FAQ’s?

Straight answers for smarter simulation.

Can CHEMCAD simulate my process?

Almost any chemical process can be simulated in CHEMCAD. We can say this simply because of the flexible foundation that we provide for you. For example, if you are interested in tracking fluid properties that CHEMCAD does not calculate, then you can write a user-added subroutine to calculate those properties. If you have a unit operation that is not in the CHEMCAD unit operation palette, you can either model it from a group of existing unit operations or create it yourself using an Excel spreadsheet or a C program. At the very least, you can employ a "black box" type of unit operation.

Is CHEMCAD a client-server type application?

CHEMCAD is a fully integrated software package, in that the graphical interface is completely tied into the calculation engine. There is no lag time created by batch-type communication between the elements of the program.

For CHEMCAD users who access the program through a web browser, the user’s computer or device connects to a multi-core virtual machine that performs very fast calculations. For this reason, even though the user is logging into a remote system, performance can exceed the limitations of the local system or device.

How long does it take to learn CHEMCAD?

Users who are simulation literate tend to pick up the basics fairly quickly (1-2 weeks continuous use, 5-6 weeks infrequent use). Those who are new to simulation tend to take significantly longer without training. The interface is extremely easy to pick up for almost anyone; those new to simulation simply need time to understand flowsheeting/thermodynamics selection/convergence issues. With training (our BASIC course), users typically can begin useful modeling as soon as they return to the workplace. The reason for this is that our training course is less "keystroke-oriented" and more "method-oriented."

Does CHEMCAD have equipment costing functions?

Yes, CHEMCAD can perform equipment costing. However, as with most costing algorithms, the answers produced are far more useful as a first-pass or comparison tool than as an actual budgeting tool.

What engineering units does CHEMCAD work in?

You can select from pre-built engineering profiles (ENGLISH, FORMAL SI, COMMON SI, or METRIC), or create your own profile of mixed units. You can save profiles and/or create default profiles to be used with every new simulation.

What type of flowsheet convergence does CHEMCAD use?

By default, CHEMCAD is a sequential-modular simulator. This means that given feed streams and unit operation specifications, CHEMCAD will calculate intermediate and outlet streams. CHEMCAD also has a simultaneous modular mode for convergence.

Do I have to run my entire simulation, or can I just run sections?

You can run the entire simulation, certain sections, certain recycle loops, or just individual unit operations if you like.

Can I make a PFD or P&I in CHEMCAD?

PFD: Yes, you can add stream data boxes, unit operation data boxes, text labels and titles, user-created shapes/pictures/lines, and imported .BMP files to your flowsheet.

P&I: In most cases, a CHEMCAD process flow diagram (PFD) can be used as a starting point for a P&I diagram. CHEMCAD is not a drawing program; rather, it is a simulator with drawing features.

What language is CHEMCAD programmed in?

CHEMCAD is programmed in Visual C++.
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