Case Study: United States Military Academy advances chemical engineering education with Datacor CHEMCAD

United States Military Academy saves weeks of reactor model integration time with Datacor

The United States Military Academy (USMA) needed to integrate custom engineering models into their primary chemical process design tool, CHEMCAD from Datacor. Their challenge was that built-in software equations were too rigid for handling unique operational scenarios, proprietary models, and specialized student projects, particularly for membrane separation processes.

Datacor's solution enabled USMA to use CHEMCAD’s flexible data mapping to integrate external computational environments like Mathematica. This allowed for the real-time creation of highly specialized custom models. The result was a significant time savings; students reported that incorporating a custom reactor model into CHEMCAD saved weeks of work. This successful integration is now an important part of the USMA chemical engineering curriculum.

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