ProsimPlus: New CAPE-OPEN Capabilities for process simulators
Systematic methods and tools for managing the complexity
Software Architecture, Standards & Interfaces (T4-7)
Keywords: Interoperability, integration thermodynamics calculation, process simulation
Interoperability, integration and re-use are the most often met demands from engineering calculation package users. ProSimPlus is the general steady state process simulator developed by French software house ProSim and used by many industrial customers around the world now provides new CAPE-OPEN capabilities. These capabilities will be demonstrated in the presentation.
On the one hand, ProSimPlus offers CAPE-OPEN thermodynamic plug and socket facilities after the integration of the new thermodynamic calculation server of ProSim called Simulis Thermodynamics. ProSimPlus is able to perform thermodynamic calculations using external models but also to create CAPE-OPEN property packages that can be used within other CAPE-OPEN compliant software. We demonstrate an example of use of a third-party CAPE-OPEN property package within ProSimPlus.
On the other hand, ProSimPlus also offers a CAPE-OPEN unit socket to be able to call external models for unit operations. An illustration is made with the use of two CAPE-OPEN unit operations, the first one developed by ProSim and the other one from a third-party company. With this support of the CAPE-OPEN standard, ProSimPlus purposes a new way to integrate customers' know-how and to manage it in the long run.
Presented Monday 17, 15:40 to 16:00, in session Software Architecture, Standards & Interfaces (T4-7).
