One of the major centers of decision-making in a project, be it Oil & Gas or any other Chemical/Biochemical domain of engineering is the Process Design department. A major part of working in this department is frequent use of softwares that ease the work of professionals. One such is Process Simulation. A workshop for developing skills of the Master's progam students was held on October 23, 2010.Process Simulation is used for the design, development, analysis and optimization, of technical processes. In the context of courses in UPES, these softwares are applied to chemical plants and processes. In coordinating with faculty from the College of Engineering Studies, the section had organized a workshop on one such software "HYSYS", published by AspenTech. UPES has a student license of HYSYS and the software was provided for use to students on-campus, through WLAN.
The workshop was conducted by Prof. Sanjay Dalvi, a faculty member of the College of Engineering Studies at UPES. It was a three hour session that covered all the basics of process simulation and tips to optimize the design process. Students from M. Tech Pipeline and Process Design were the main participants in this workshop.
ASME student members were asked to bring their laptops/netbooks in order to access the university's copy of HYSYS via the local network. A Q&A session was held at the end of the workshop, after which a small presentation was done to the faculty for sparing time for the ASME Student Section.
