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As institutions for training practical and skilled professionals, higher vocational colleges have the primary responsibility of cultivating individuals with strong practical abilities for enterprises, and the improvement of such practical skills relies on solid hardware facilities as a foundation. For chemical engineering majors, teaching facilities include various chemical processing units and chemical simulation software. Since most institutions have few chemical engineering equipment, or the equipment available is rudimentary, it falls far short of the requirements for modern industrial production, which in turn affects teaching and prevents the achievement of optimal teaching results. Therefore, after students complete their courses, schools generally arrange for them to go to companies for internships. However, during the internship period in enterprises, due to the special nature of the chemical manufacturing industry – such as complex production conditions and safety hazards like high temperatures, high pressures, toxic substances, flammability, explosiveness, and corrosivity that are present throughout the production process – students have few opportunities to carry out operations firsthand. They can only observe, which results in them having only a superficial understanding of chemical production. The emergence of chemical engineering simulation has solved the problem of students not being able to carry out practical operations. Through simulation exercises, students can carry out simulations on computers for the cold start-up, normal operation, and fault handling of chemical production plants. This allows them to understand the production and operation processes of such plants without having to go to a factory, thereby integrating theory with practice, improving teaching quality, enhancing students’ professional skills, and laying a solid foundation for their future careers. 1. The significance of chemical process simulation: Chemical process simulation in teaching refers to mathematical models that describe the dynamic characteristics of process systems; these models enable the reproduction on a computer of the real-time behavior of chemical production processes, thereby allowing operations to be carried out within such simulation systems. Through chemical process simulation, students can gain a deep understanding of process knowledge and master practical operational skills in a highly realistic environment. 2. The application of chemical process simulation in chemical engineering education. Chemical process simulation-based teaching is a new type of teaching method; the simulation training laboratory serves both as a classroom for students and as a control room similar to those used in chemical manufacturing plants. On the one hand, classrooms can be used to teach theoretical knowledge while also demonstrating chemical engineering simulation operations; by allowing students to use such simulation software, the real-time dynamics of actual production processes can be replicated, enabling them to experience the actual working environment in chemical production and thus achieving better results in skill training ； On the other hand, students verify theories through practical training, gaining a deeper understanding of those theoretical concepts, which helps to improve their overall capabilities.