COMPUTER AIDED PROCESS

Both the need to reduce experimental costs and increasing reHabiHty of mathematical modeling have led to growing acceptance of computer-aided process analysis and simulation, although modeling should not be considered a substitute for either practical experience or reHable experimental data. 

The use of the computer in the design of chemical processes requires a framework for depiction and computation completely different from that of traditional CAD/CAM appHcations. Eor this reason, most practitioners use computer-aided process design to designate those approaches that are used to model the performance of individual unit operations, to compute heat and material balances, and to perform thermodynamic and transport analyses. Typical process simulators have, at their core, techniques for the management of massive arrays of data, computational engines to solve sparse matrices, and unit-operation-specific computational subroutines. 

Computer-aided process synthesis systems do not mean completely automated design systems (57). Process synthesis should be carried out by interactive systems, in which the engineer s role is to carry out synthesis and the machine s role is to analy2e the performance of synthesized systems. Computet apphcations in the future will probably deal with the knowledge-based system in appHed artificial intelligence. Consequendy, research on computer-aided process synthesis should be directed toward the realization of such systems with the collaboration of experienced process engineers. 

Flash-drum specifications in addition to (T9, T9) and (T9, adiabatic) are also possible but must be applied with care, as discussed by Michelsen [Comp. Chem. Engng., 17,431 (1993)]. Most computer-aided process design and simulation programs permit a wide variety of flash specifications. 

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FIGURE 8.2 Example of a flowsheet generated by computer-aided process synthesis, as would be seen on the screen of a computer terminal. The column on the left side of the figure shows options available in the particular design program being run. Courtesy, Peter Piela, Carnegie-Mel Ion University. 

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