Authors & Acknowledgements
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Authors
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Authors of the BioSTEAM software include:
* Contributers who committed significant resources, expertise, and other
impactful efforts:
* `Yoel Cortes-Pena `__ (lead BioSTEAM author, developer, and maintainer)
* `Jeremy Guest `__ (led efforts to found, develop, coordinate, and expand the software)
* `Sarang Sunil Bhagwat `__ (led the development of the heat exchanger network and more)
* `Yalin Li `__ (contributed general expertise)
* `Ben Portner `__ (led the development of compressor models and more)
* Direct contributers to code base:
* `All other developers `__
that have contributed to the biosteam repository
* Developers who have contributed in person and through email, including:
* `Lisa Pardini `__ (contributed heat exchanger design and costing)
* `Bugrah Mirsat Sahin `__ (contributed pump design and costing)
* `Rui Shi `__ (contributed kinetic fermentation model)
Acknowledgements
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The development of the BioSTEAM software was greatly expedited thanks to
third-party, open-source chemical engineering software which have provided
critical functionality to BioSTEAM. Special thanks to `Caleb Bell `__,
who has coordinated efforts with the lead BioSTEAM developer to tailor functionality of
his open-source software to the needs of the BioSTEAM software:
* Caleb Bell, Yoel Rene Cortes-Pena, Contributors (2016-2022). chemicals: Chemical properties component of Chemical Engineering Design Library (ChEDL)
https://github.com/CalebBell/chemicals.
* Caleb Bell (2016-2022). fluids: Fluid dynamics component of Chemical Engineering Design Library (ChEDL)
https://github.com/CalebBell/fluids.
* Caleb Bell and Contributors (2016-2022). thermo: Thermodynamics and Phase Equilibrium component of Chemical Engineering Design Library (ChEDL)
https://github.com/CalebBell/thermo.