Control Cont variables

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In the HYSYS.Plant simulator, this is accomplished by the Adjust operation, in CHEM-CAD by the CONT subroutine, and in PRO/II by the CONTROLLER subroutine. In ASPEN PLUS, the equivalent is accomplished with so-called design specifications. The latter terminology is intended to draw a distinction between simulation calculations, where the equipment parameters and feed stream variables are specified, and design calculations, where the desired properties of the product stream (e.g., temperature, composition, flow rate) are specified and the equipment parameters (area, reflux ratio, etc.) and feed stream variables are calculated. In HYSYS.Plant, the Adjust operation is used to adjust the equipment parameters and some feed stream variables to meet the specifications of the stream variables. Furthermore, the Set object is used to adjust the value of an attribute of a stream in proportion to that of another stream. 

For assistance in the use of the Adjust and Set objects, the reader is referred to the module HYSYS -> Principles of Flowsheet Simulation Getting Started in HYSYS -> Convergence of Simulation on the multimedia CD-ROM that accompanies this text. As was discussed in the subsection on bidirectional information flow, for all of its subroutines, HYSYS.Plant provides a bidirectional information flow, that is, when product stream variables are specified, the subroutines calculate most of the unknown inlet-stream variables. In CHEMCAD, a control unit, with one inlet stream and one outlet stream (which may be identical to the inlet stream), is placed into the simulation flowsheet using the CONT subroutine. The parameters of the control unit are specified so as to achieve the desired value of a stream variable (or an expression involving stream variables) or an equipment parameter (or an expression involving equipment parameters) by manipulating an equipment parameter or a stream variable. This is the feed-backward mode, which requires that the control unit be placed downstream of the units being simulated. The CONT subroutine also has afeed-forward mode. 

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