Products > Discipline: Process Industry > Library: PROCESS
PROCESS LIBRARY
The PROCESS library facilitates the fast, easy design and simulation of a large number of industrial process plants, as well as the assessment of different control strategies.
Features
The Process library provides the most widely used process units in an industrial plant. This library enables plant designs by comparison of different theoretical configurations both morphologically and with regard to their control. It can also be used to improve existing plants and to simulate situations beyond normal and emergency operation.
The library comes with another auxiliary library of physico-chemical properties with different components. The chemical compounds defined in this library are:
- Specific compounds: H2O, O2, N2, CH4, C2H6, C3H8, C4H10, CO, CO2, ethanol, propanol and isoamyl alcohol (3-methyl, 1-butanol)
- General compounds: solid_00, solid_01, reac_A, reac_B, reac_C and reac_D
Furthermore, new compounds can be introduced by adding their physical properties to the properties library.
The components have a large number of available measurement sensors. By processing these signals, the necessary plant control diagram can be very easily implemented, be it to design or optimize the existing control, or to test with diverse structures to measure their impact in the event of their possible substitution. It is important to stress the role in all of this of EcosimPro’s multidisciplinary characteristics, which are by no means limited to control. On the contrary, the process library can also be combined with thermal and fluid libraries.
Thanks to EcosimPro’s features, the Process library is very easy to configure and extend, adding any components and characteristics as needed. This can be done graphically through a simple, user friendly interface, or through EcosimPro’s object-orientated language which makes it possible to re-use existing codes.
Applying the object-oriented methodology, a group of components can be encapsulated into a single subsystem used like a black box, with a defined number of inputs and outputs. This enables modular design of the overall system and makes it possible to share tasks among different specialised users or merely simplify the system.
Components
The different groups of components included in the library are summarised below:
- Sources and Sinks: The components allow specifying the working fluid and its system inlet and outlet conditions (pressure, temperature, mass flow, volume flow and chemical composition
- Pipes, Valves and Flows: They transport and determine the flow of a single-phase fluid from one component to another. They have different sensors to measure the product flowing through them
- Centrifugal pump and compressor: The characteristics of these components can be defined by means of parameters and tables. They both contain different sensors
- Heat exchangers and Flash: It has configurations for counter flow or parallel flow in the heat exchanger in which the components can be liquid-liquid, liquid-steam, gas-gas and liquid-gas. The flash enables you to obtain a liquid-steam combination from one liquid
- Tanks: Representing a cylindrical tank that can be configured in different ways: vertically, horizontally, open or pressurised
- Sensors: There is a wide range of sensors that can provide information to other components on temperature, level, composition, pressure, etc.
- Process: There are various specific components of chemical process engineering, such as:
- Reactors (CSTR, jacket reactor, batch reactor)
- Binary distillation column (liquid and steam phases are considered ideal)
- Evaporator
- Furnace and boilers
- Dryer
