LPT-2001-18 [BibTeX]
Jörg Hackenberg, Georg Schopfer, Lars v.Wedel, Aidong Yang, Wolfgang Marquardt:
Lifecycle modeling support - concepts and software
In: K. Panreck, F. Dörrscheidt (Eds.): ASIM 2001, 15. Symposium der Simulationstechnik, Paderborn, Germany, 12-14.9.2001, 11-24
Abstract:
Models about chemical processes and plants contain valuable knowledge about the
companies assets. Considering the costly efforts needed for their development, it must be
considered a waste of resources that (in general) models are neither reused for the
development of new models and often not even used for simulation studies in late
activities during plant design. This is mainly caused by (i) insufficient means to
distribute, maintain, and communicate models within the process design team, and (ii) a
lack of integration among process modeling and simulation tools that would enable the
combined use of existing models for a simulation independent of the tool they have been
developed with. This contribution presents an open environment that aims at the
management of chemical process models over the lifecycle of the process design activity.
The environment comprises a repository for the storage of heterogeneous models in a tool
independent format, a modeling tool for the development and administration of models in
the repository, a model integration platform for simulation which can execute simulation
experiments involving otherwise incompatible tools and a thermodynamics server
ensuring consistent physical property calculations for all models involved. Results are
presented along the development of a Nylon production process as a case study.
Keywords:
Lifecycle, chemical process modeling, Mathematical models, reuse, library, heterogeneous, tool integration, simulation, CORBA.