Objective
Quick and effective process simulation is vital for
assessing the performance of new or modified processes
before making the large investments necessary for
construction. It is thus an essential tool for allowing
new and improved products and processes into the market
quickly. The market for process simulation is dominated
by three companies offering incompatible products. This
is both true for steady state and dynamic simulation.
Different simulators have different strengths and to get
the best results requires access to more than one
simulator and integration with in house software
containing company specific information. This makes
simulation a slow, costly process and makes it difficult
for European Industry to exploit advances made by
research institutes and specialist suppliers of
simulation elements, whose products cannot be readily
integrated.
The project aims to promote the adoption of an open
systems communication for process flowsheet simulation,
which allows simulator users to employ elements of any
simulator within any other. Specifically the project
will develop open system communication for key simulation
elements, demonstrate the effectiveness of the open
system, widely disseminate the results and through this
promote adoption of the open system by the major
providers and users of process simulation. Following the
recommendations of a study made in 1995 for the partners,
the project will encourage a new approach known as
"component software", which enables a complete simulation
to be assembled using sofware components from a variety
of sources.
The specifications of the agreed interfaces wil1 be
widely discussed and disseminated in order to ensure the
rapid adoption in the European Industry. This will
provide the European process industries with faster,
cheaper, more accurate process simulation leading to
enhanced competitive and environmental performance. A
large new market will be created for specialist European
simulation elements vendors, increasing competition and
advancing the state of the art.
A balanced partnership including major process companies
and a process licensor, all substantial users of
simulation, will provide the user requirements. Selected
consultants and universities, experts in the CAPE domain,
will formulate the standards and demonstrators. The
expertise of the simulator vendors will ensure that the
results are practicable and are rapidly adopted.
The CAPE OPEN proposal builds on the BE95 1207 proposal,
with changes motivated by:
experience gained from the OO Cape study[5];
one year of evolution in the process simulation
software industry;
consensus report on the previous submission to Brite
Euram.
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