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DEVELOPMENT OF A CHEMICAL PROCESS MODELING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON CAPE-OPEN INTERFACE STANDARDS AND THE MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK
Citation:
BARRETT, W. M. AND J. YANG. DEVELOPMENT OF A CHEMICAL PROCESS MODELING ENVIRONMENT BASED ON CAPE-OPEN INTERFACE STANDARDS AND THE MICROSOFT .NET FRAMEWORK. G.V. Reklaitis (ed.), COMPUTERS AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING. Elsevier Science Ltd, New York, NY, 30(2):191-201, (2005).
Description:
Chemical process simulation has long been used as a design tool in the development of chemical plants, and has long been considered a means to evaluate different design options. With the advent of large scale computer networks and interface models for program components, it is possible to create applications that can incorporate third-party add-in components and take advantage of information contained within process simulation programs using a common set of interfaces, such as the CAPE-OPEN interfaces. Use of CAPE-OPEN interfaces and the .NET framework will allow this application to develop into a distributed, cross platform simulation and process control environment that can be easily extended to incorporate novel chemical process computing applications. The current effort is the development of a process simulator built to use process model components that implement the CAPE-OPEN interfaces. This paper describes the process model components and the process modeling environment developed as the core component of a program intended to evaluate the processes that generate wastes in a metal finishing process. Ultimately this program will be made available to the general community as an open-source application.