CAPE OPEN Interface at BASF

摘要

To facilitate easier use of external third party thermodynamic property and equilibrium calculation servers, and to cut down on development and maintenance overhead resulting from specific interfacing with specific thermodynamic applications, BASF has researched the potential for using CAPE-OPEN as a means to incorporate third party thermodynamics via generic interfaces. A feasibility study exposed that this was possible, but also exposed some challenges. Based on the feasibility study it was also concluded that an interface library particular to and optimized for the use at hand was warranted. Such a library has been implemented and incorporated in the current release of BASF’s simulation software. Enduser’s feedback in terms of versatility, stability and performance are favourable. This presentation will outline some of the challenges that were found, and their solutions. Future work on CAPE-OPEN interfaces will focus on further improvement of the thermodynamics interfaces and interfacing with non-thermodynamic third party models, such as unit operations.