Let's close some glaring gaps

摘要

PROCESS SIMULATION HAS TRANS-formed the design of chemical plants and its impact will continue to grow,as the story on page 18 points out.However,proprietary modeling environments sometimes have made it difficult for operating companies to incorporate their own software or niche packages from third parties.This has spurred a collaborative effort to foster"plug-and-play"process-modeling-software components.Air Liquide,BASF,BP,IFP,Dow,Shell Chemicals and TOTAL are leading the initiative,called CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network,says Michel Pons,process simulation group leader for ARKEMA,Lyon,France.Pons has been involved with the program.