ASM Fellow Launches Book During International Conference

ASM Fellow Professor Ir Dr Dominic C. Y. Foo launched his latest book on 24 October 2022 during the International Conference of Energy, Environment and Digital Transformation held in Milan, Italy.

During the event, Prof Foo launched the second edition of his textbook – Chemical Engineering Process Simulation, which Elsevier and IChemE recently published.

Professor Ir Dr Dominic C. Y. Foo is the Process of Process Design and Integration Professor at the University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM). He is also the Head of Department for the Chemical and Environmental Engineering Department and the founding Director of the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies of UNM.

During the book launch event, Professor Foo said that in his observation, many universities do not teach process simulation tools properly. In most cases, students are left to pick up the software by themselves, as if they are playing “computer games”. This issue motivated him to develop structured material to ease fellow chemical engineering instructors in teaching process simulation. This material will enable the training of a new generation of engineers in mastering this important skill set upon graduation, enhancing their employability.

In the two editions of the same textbook, he has collected many useful case studies of simulations from academic and industrial colleagues of various countries so that university academics can use them in their lectures.

Professor Foo also invited the President of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), Professor David Bogle, to give some remarks on his book during the book launch event.

“I haven’t seen such a comprehensive book in this area. It is based around popular software with a particularly broad and impressive set of examples to help guide good practice and understanding.” Professor Bogle said.

The new edition of the book consists of five sections:

• Section 1 has the basic steps of performing process simulation, e.g., solving algorithm, component addition, thermodynamic model selection, etc. Chapter 1 also outlines the ten important habits of process simulation to guide process engineers in converging their simulation flowsheet more efficiently. Novice to process simulation is highly encouraged to read this important chapter.
• Sections 2 to 5 are chapters with basic guides and case studies built on various commercial process simulation software in the market. These include UniSim Design (Honeywell), Symmetry (Schlumberger), SuperPro Designer (Intelligen, Inc.), Aspen Plus (AspenTech) and Aspen HYSYS (AspenTech). The basic guides of this software are found in chapters designed to enable students to self-learn this software.

In addition, the book also comes with various teaching support materials, such as solutions, simulation files, PPTs and figures that enable instructors to prepare lectures easily.

Interested instructors or students may head over to the Elsevier website to purchase this book.