Easy to use and very useful for the learning of chemical processes, especially for students of chemical engineering and professionals in the area

Many students fell behind in the semester because they did not understand their application despite being simple

It is very useful software and being a chemical engineer I have used it frequently throughout my bachelors in plant design projects and with no doubt I would recommend Chemcad for the process simulation.

Chemcad is software specially dedicated to the chemical engineers for the process simulation. While it might be difficult for the beginners to understand the interface, once you get soaked in you can make a really good use of it. Chemcad comes up with numbers of features like equipment sizing, equipment design and process economics as well. Also it includes thermophysical calculations. With all those features, it definitely helps engineers from designing a equipment to designing the whole plant as well as performing other calculations too. One might say that other application are better than this, I would definitely argue with that for the fact that it is great value for money

As mentioned earlier, this software might be quite difficult at the beginning because the interface is confusing but there are lots of tutorials and webinars held that will help you to learn. Furthermore, in case of any errors or unexpected results, you have to sort out for the problems manually as the program won’t do itself.

For processes that are not too complex, this software is easy to pick up on.

Process design with multiple unit operations is extremely difficult and Chemcad rarely converges. Little to no troubleshooting available.

Is the best option for analytical chemistry out there

Without a doubt is one of the most practical softwares in analytical chemistry, it has a lot a features, and you can handle your equipment and do the interpretation all in the same software. Also it's easy to write macros and change the features you find complicated.

It takes a great time to master the software, there in a lot of the versions the manage of the signal is very hard and the help assume you know very practical things in the equipment and the software it self.

Great chemical engineering software that allows studying chemical processes at a wide range of levels.

Use of this software is very intuitive. Simpler chemical reactions are readily set up and the dynamics and thermodynamics of those reactions accessible right away for study.

For the moment, the level of this software is too advanced for my needs. I am confident that I will eventually take advantage of many more of its capabilities, but for now the advanced capabilities confuse my analyses sometimes.

This taught me and my classmates a lot about process design engineering and was a great tool to take many chemical engineering skills and apply them to real life. The online help was also very helpful for topics that may not have been covered in class.

This software works well for chemical process modeling, and was used at my university to teach design to senior design. It had many features that worked well for the course, and basically had everything necessary for us to complete our design project and learn what we needed to. I can definitely see uses in industry as this project gave us a good background on what we could expect with process engineering or process design roles.

It can be difficult to learn, and some people fell behind throughout the semester. Unfortunately, there may not be much that can be done about this. In fact, there are a lot of tutorials and helpful advice on the website, and even some workshops. The toughness just comes from the rigor from chemical engineering in the first place. Some may argue that alternative chemical process design software may be better, but it really is not much better than this in my opinion.

Used to determine and verify design requirements for chemical reactor equipment.

Reactor design functions. Can choose from a catalog of reactants, choose the features that you want and it will give a required reactor size that you would need to achieve your desired results. Can also design heat exchangers, distillation columns, adsorption columns, pumps, ect.

Does not screen for feasibility. This software can only work with the inputs that you give it. So you will have to screen for unreasonable and unexpected results. This only really should be a tool for getting a general idea of plans and should not be the exact plans for any piece of equipment.

overall easier to use than similar programs. For this reason, using this program as an exercise will contribute to the general simulation rules.

first of all it is very easy to use and find detailed explanations. This is the most important advantage. If you are doing simulation for the first time, it is definitely a very important program for you.

In my simulations, the program sometimes gives very illogical errors and this affects the reliability of my result. The database needs to be updated and developed.

1. It can be easily installed. 2. Great user interface. 3. Easy to create new process designs. 4. Extremely adaptable when picking up new chemical interactions. 5. Increases students' ability for learning and drawing reaction mechanisms. 6. Enables to create excellent graphical abstract.

1. It is quite sensitive, sluggish. 2. It crashes suddenly.

I was excellent, I managed to perform the necessary simulation, however, understanding the graphical interface some time is lost

It is excellent for the simulation of food industry processes, such as multireaction petrochemical processes, since it allows the inclusion of the performance and selectivity data

I did not like graphic interdaz, it's unfriendly for a beginner. It should be more didactic, additional there is not much availability of information about the simulator.

Sehr gut

Große Stoffdatenbank, viele Unit Operations, einfache Bedienung, exaktes Ergebnis, kurze Rechenzeiten, kompatibel zu Excel und VBA

Irgendwas fehlt immer. In einem solchen Fall hilft die Excel-Unit, deren Algorithmus man leicht selbst erstellen kann.

Overall, very happy with using Chemcad at my small company, allowing us to simulate chemical engineering processes easily.

I love how easy it was to learn how to use this software -- modeling the chemical reactions/components we need took very little time.

The license was fairly expensive, but it seems to be worth it -- it speeds up our modeling time significantly.

I was able to apply my chemical engineering education with this software. Most of the components I learned about were there to apply to my designs and I was able to map out the plant design for my colleagues without much training.

The user interface seems a little outdated, but I noticed that with pretty much all software I have used in this sector.

The software can be used for modelling referigerative cycles

Provides a nice environment for steady state simulations .

Converging of flowsheets with recycling is a bit difficult.

Learned the basics and was able to do a few projects. Would be worth learning more advanced features.

Very helpful for chemical process design. Getting up to speed is simple and more advanced simulation features.

Other software for simulation that seemed more valuable to learn. Once we learned basics in ChemCad we were using other process software.

Very simple with many different unit ops. Thermodynamic models seem to be accurate and effective. Easy to use

Appearance is old looking compared to other flowsheeting software. There needs to be more cost calculating functionality

Interesting software for chemical process design. Good use for simpler chemical processes

What I least like is the fact that it takes to converge in multiple processes

Chemcad has the great advantage of having varied and full-function modules for different types of processes and industries. This, in addition to allowing the customization of the software with independent modules that work together according to the needs of each client.

Being a chemical software with so many functionalities makes Chemcad a complex management software for apprentices. However, there are tutorials and examples on the web that can help with this aspect.