PRO/II Tutorial

1. PRO/II Tutorial To get some practice with the use of the PRO/II process simulator to model chemical processes(see PRO/II documentation – Tutorial Guide)

2. Steps in Creating a Model • Create a new case (1-1) • Select Units (1-1a) • Select Thermodynamics (1-7) • Select Components (1-4) • Add Unit Operations & Streams (1-3) • Run Simulation (1-19) • Generate Report (1-20) PRO/II Tutorial Don Robinson

3. Session 2 Adds More Units • Distillation Column (2-2) • Heat Exchangers (2-7) • Compressor (2-11) • Skip: Flash Hot Key (1-20) Double Window (2-3, 2-4) PRO/II Tutorial Don Robinson

4. Session 3 • How to get data from model to reports, Excel etc. • On CD, but not on paper copies • If you have time, take a quick look at it PRO/II Tutorial Don Robinson

5. Bad Habits Taught By Tutorial • Illogical order of steps (see list on previous slide) • Two many unit ops and streams at one time (do one at a time) • Infrequent saving of files (do Save As case01, case 02, . . . case0n) PRO/II Tutorial Don Robinson