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General hiatus and needs regarding software tools for process integration

General hiatus

• a tool for studying the effects of process integration on the controllability
• a universal tool to make user-written process simulations
• a tool for process synthesis in which the tool acts like an 'intelligent boss'
• a tool for studying the dynamic effects in boiler feed water preheating in thermal cogenerating power stations

Calculation of costs and economics

• software tools for a global and detailed calculation and optimization of the overall economics of a process

Evaluation and optimization methods

• methods for the optimization of power control and variable speed control methods for the evaluation of energy, exergy and power flows
• loop calculations
• water pinch or balances
• simultaneous design of a heat exchanger network and process simulation
• design of a heat exchanger network suitable for more than one application
• risk analysis of uncertainties with respect to process or market data

Batch and continuous processes

• a tool for the simulation and control of batch processes and its combination with continuous processes (dynamic simulation)
• software program for the scheduling of batches
• software program for a direct overview of the production

Dedicated applications

• simultaneous calculation of heat losses and pressure drops in a pipe
• calculation of efficiencies based upon parameters from the environment
• a software program in which hydraulic and separation constraints can simultaneously be specified, for the revamp of a distillation section

Data exchange

• improvement of data exchange between software programs including word processors
• exchange of flowsheeter data and real-time data
• possibility to include comments in the calculation results to improve the communication between the design and engineering departments

Data

• programs that take into account particle size, agglomeration, crystallization, the viscosity of fluids and quality parameters of for example polymers
• data on rare organic compounds and water/steam tables are sometimes missing

Data representation

• an easy way to restrict the output to the desired output data only, preferably in the desired units
• graphical representation of data (Sankey and Grassmann diagrams)

Unit operations

• reactive distillaton
• combustion of gases, liquids and solids (including mixing)
• absorption of inorganic gases in water
• coal activation
• adsorption on coal/zeolites
• heat pumps
• biotechnological syntheses
• modelling of reactors (gas/liquid, liquid/solid)
• two-phase flow in pipes
• modelling of crystallization and polymerization

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