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IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAPE-OPEN COMPLIANT PROCESS SIMULATOR USING MICROSOFT'S VISUAL STUDIO.NET AND THE .NET FRAMEWORK
Citation:
Barrett**, W M. AND P F. Harten*. IMPLEMENTATION OF A CAPE-OPEN COMPLIANT PROCESS SIMULATOR USING MICROSOFT'S VISUAL STUDIO.NET AND THE .NET FRAMEWORK. Presented at AIChE, Spring National Meeting, Information Technology Topical Conference, New Orleans, LA, April 27, 2004.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public
Description:
The United States Environmental Protection Agency is developing a Computer
Aided Process Engineering (CAPE) software tool for the metal finishing
industry that helps users design efficient metal finishing processes that
are less polluting to the environment. Metal finishing process lines can be
simulated and evaluated to determine the quantity of pollutants released
using on-screen flowsheets. These are used to identify processes that reduce
the amount of waste generated. The processes represented on flowsheets are
created from a large collection of unit operations commonly used in the
metal finishing industry. The user builds processes by selecting icons that
represent the unit operations from a toolbar and drag-and-drop these icons
onto the flowsheet. The path of the material streams connecting unit
operations are drawn on the design surface with the computer mouse. The
final step of the analysis is to optimize the metal finishing process to
minimize the amount of waste produced per item.