Discover professional-grade process simulation - without the price tag.
Explore our 2025 roundup of the best open-source tools for chemical and bioprocess modeling. Whether you're an engineer, researcher, or aspiring consultant, these free simulators offer the capabilities you need to design smarter, faster, and more affordably.

Curious which software chemical engineers rely on today? This 2025 guide breaks down top tools - from free, open-source solutions to sophisticated industrial systems - helping you choose based on your project needs, budget, and scale.

Steady-state and dynamic plant simulation are powerful tools that help engineers create optimal process designs to analyze plant operations, to develop performance improvement strategies, monitor and optimize operations and much more.
We are providing a full list of process simulator packages with their key characteristics. They are available for different industries, purposes, scales and under different commercial conditions. While some of them are very expensive, there are as well affordable ones and even a couple of them that are totally free of charge. So, no more excuses for not using process simulation tools.

You can apply programming skills in many areas of Chemical engineering. It can be either at the industrial scale or in research labs and it can include everything from process modeling, analysis, identification, planning, setup, control, maintenance etc.