PhreePlot

PhreePlot is a program for making geochemical plots and fitting geochemical models to observations with PHREEQC.

Introduction

PhreePlot contains an embedded version of PHREEQC 3. PhreePlot sits on top of PHREEQC and makes it relatively straightforward to do repetitive PHREEQC calculations, the type of calculations that are often needed to make a plot. PhreePlot uses tags placed within the PHREEQC input file to identify places where substitutions are to be made and has several looping mechanisms to control the values substituted. It also contains software for generating Postscript (ps) plot files and optionally a bundled version of Ghostscript for converting these to a variety of other image formats. In addition to normal PHREEQC-type calculations, PhreePlot can be used to generate predominance diagrams, make 2D-contour plots and to fit PHREEQC models to observations using various optimization routines.

Download

• PhreePlot (Version 1) for Win32 and x64 Windows. N.B. It is advisable to use the x64 version if possible. It is likely that the next version of PhreePlot will be the x64 version only.
• If you do not have administator rights to install the above, use this x64 version which can be installed anywhere. You will then have to manually set the PHREEPLOT environment variable to your installation directory and PHREEPLOT_PATH to the directory containing the pp executable.
• If PhreePlot reports some missing dll's, download the appropriate zip file (missingdlls-64 or missingdlls-32) and put the missing dll's in the same directory as pp.exe, i.e. in your PHREEPLOT_PATH directory.
• Some Linux and Mac OSX binaries are available with installation notes here.
• A brief guide to the installation of PhreePlot.
• Ghostscript 9.52, or locally from gs952w64.exe or gs952w32.exe for converting ps files.
• GSview (Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd) for viewing ps files. Note that this requires Ghostscript 9.52 or earlier.

Documentation

• PhreePlot Guide (pdf, 6.2 MB)
• An introduction to PhreePlot's looping (pdf, 84 kB)
• Release notes

  2019-23 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 and earlier

Reviews and calculations

Molybdenum

• Scripts used in creating some of the figures for our Mo review published in Applied Geochemistry 84, 387-432 (2017) are included in the \demo\MoReview2017\ folder created during PhreePlot installation.

Uranium

• Scripts used in creating some of the figures for our U review published in Applied Geochemistry 148, 105534 (2023) are included in the \demo\Ureview\ folder created during PhreePlot installation.

List species app

• List species (lsp) is an app to analyse PHREEQC-format database files. See here.

Gallery

• Examples

Acknowledgements

The following are acknowledged for their major contributions to the code in PhreePlot:

• DL Parkhurst, CAJ Appelo & SR Charlton: PHREEQC.
  
• KE Kohler: PSPLOT Postscript plotting library.
  
• MJD Powell & HSL Archive: VA05, NEWUOA and BOBYQA optimization routines.
• P Bourke: CONREC contouring.

A full list of Acknowledgements is given in the PhreePlot Guide.

Feedback

Please send David Kinniburgh (david@phreeplot.org) bug reports and any comments on the Windows Installer, program or documentation. Examples to add to the Gallery are also welcome.

You can automatically check whether you have the latest version of PhreePlot installed each time you run PhreePlot by setting the keyword 'checkForUpdate' to TRUE in the settings file ( pp.set).