Installation Sheet for DWSIM

Spoken Tutorial Team

IIT Bombay

1 The procedure to install DWSIM on Windows 7/8/10 (32-bit/64-bit)

1.1 The procedure to install DWSIM 5.8 Update 3 on Windows 10 (recommended)

1. To follow the installation procedure, you need to be connected to the Internet

2. Following system requirements should be met:
i. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 or newer
ii. 2 GB RAM
iii. 1.0 GHz dual-core processor (minimum)
iv. 500 MB Disk space for program files
3. At the time of creating this series, the latest version was DWSIM 5.8 Update 3
4. To install the same version, follow the steps as given below

1.2 Installing DWSIM latest version on your machine

1. Open your default web browser

2. In the address bar, type the url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dwsim/files/DWSIM and
press Enter
3. Under "Parent "folder, click on "DWSIM 5.8"
4. Scroll down and click on "Update 3"
5. Now, select the 32 bit or 64 bit installer depending on your system configuration
6. I will click on "DWSIM bin v58u3 setup win7win8win10 64bit.exe"
7. Save "DWSIM bin v58u3 setup win7win8win10 64bit.exe" file
8. Go to "Downloads" folder and right click on .exe file
9. Select "Run as administrator"
10. In the "User Account Control" window, select Yes
11. In the "Installer language" pop up, click on OK
12. "DWSIM 5 5.8 Update 3 Setup" window appears
13. Click on "Next"
14. In "License Agreement" section, Choose "I Agree"
15. In DWSIM Version Information section, Click on "Next"
16. In "Select components to install" field, Check all the check boxes and click "Next"
17. In "Choose Install Location" section, Click on "Next"
18. In "Choose Start Menu Folder" section, Click on "Install"
19. In "Chemsep 8.14 Setup License Agreement" section, Choose "I Agree"
20. In "Choose Users" section, Click on "Next"
21. In Choose Install Location section, Click on "Next"
22. In "Choose Start Menu Folder" section, Click on "Install"
23. On completion, "Setup was completed successfully" message appears. Now, click on "Next"
24. Click on "Finish".
25. In "CAPE-OPEN Type Libraries x64 or x32 Setup" section, Click on "Next"
26. Select I accept the terms in the License Agreement check box
27. Click on "Next"
28. In "Installation Scope" section, Click on "Next"
29. Click on "Install"
30. Click on "Finish"
31. In Command prompt, some commands are executes automatically
32. Wait for a few seconds
33. Once the execution is completed, click on "Next" in "DWSIM 5 5.8 Update 3 Setup" window.
34. Click on "Finish"
35. DWSIM is successfully installed

2 The procedure to install DWSIM on Ubuntu Linux 16.04

2.1 The procedure to install DWSIM 5.8 Update 3 on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit (recommended)

1. To follow the installation procedure, you need to be connected to the Internet

2. Following system requirements should be met:
i. Mono Framework 5.14.0 or newer
ii. 2 GB RAM
iii. 1.0 GHz dual-core processor (minimum)
iv. 500 MB Disk space for program files
 2.2 Installing DWSIM latest version on your machine

1. Open your default web browser.

2. In the address bar, type the url: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dwsim/files/DWSIM and
press Enter
3. Under "Parent" folder, click on "DWSIM 5.8"
4. Scroll down and click on "Update 3".
5. Click on "dwsim 5.8.3-amd64.deb"
6. Save the file in Home folder
7. Open the terminal by pressing Ctrl + Alt + T keys together
8. Type the following commands and press Enter

a) sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys

3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
b) sudo apt-get update
c) sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates
d) echo "deb https://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-xenial main" | sudo tee
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
e) sudo apt update
f) sudo apt-get install mono-devel
Prompt appears: Do you want to Continue[Y/n], press Y.
g) sudo apt-get install mono-complete
Prompt appears: Do you want to Continue[Y/n], press Y.
h) sudo apt-get install mono-vbnc
Prompt appears: Do you want to Continue[Y/n], press Y.
i) sudo apt-get install gdebi
Prompt appears: Do you want to Continue[Y/n], press Y.
j) sudo gdebi dwsim_5.8.3-amd64.deb

9. In the terminal, type "dwsim-classic".

10. DWSIM opens on your machine, then this means that DWSIM is successfully installed
3 The procedure to check DWSIM Installation

3.1 The procedure to check the DWSIM Installation in Windows 10 OS

To check the software installation, please follow these steps:

1. Go to https://spoken-tutorial.org
2. Click on "All Courses" drop-down and choose "DWSIM".
3. Click on "All Languages" drop-down and choose "English".
4. Click on "Search".
5. Scroll down and click on the "Rigorous Distillation" tutorial.
6. Download and save the code files.
7. Extract the zip file.
8. Go to DWSIM (Classic UI), right click on it and select "Run as Administrator".
9. From the "File" menu, click on "Open File".
10. Select the "Rigorous Distillation" code files form the downloaded folder.
11. From the toolbar, click on "Solve Flowsheet" button.
12. We can see that the flowsheet is simulated successfully

3.2 The procedure to check the DWSIM Installation in Ubuntu Linux 16.04

To check the software installation, please follow these steps:

1. Go to https://spoken-tutorial.org
2. Click on "All Courses" drop-down and choose "DWSIM".
3. Click on "All Languages" drop-down and choose "English".
4. Click on "Search".
5. Scroll down and click on the "Rigorous Distillation" tutorial.
6. Download and save the code files.
7. Extract the zip file.
8. Open a command terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T and type "dwsim-classic".
9. From the "File" menu, click on "Open File".
10. Select the "Rigorous Distillation" code fies form the downloaded folder.
11. From the toolbar, click on "Solve Flowsheet" button.
12. We can see that the flowsheet is simulated successfully