Some Background:
Lockdown has given us all lots of spare time were we are bored out of our minds (at least some of the time). To that end i started playing around with some old distillation column code i had and made some improvements and put together a simple process simulator.
The main improvements are that it is 'generally' not neccessary to enter estimates for any column conditions for the column to solve. (at least for the columns i've tried).
The code has been optimised to some extent and basic stream flashes are fast (~2ms for a crude flash with 80 components), columns generally solve in a few hundred ms.
Currently it has a basic Hysys/Petrosim/Unisim style interface and works i'm a roughly similar way (although a myriad of improvements are of course possible).
However, this is 'a work in progress' and doubtless has plenty of annoyances, bugs and things that are just plain daft.
What i'm wondering is if anyone would be willing to help test it? Not right now but possibly in a few months time.
My current aim is to get a crude and vacuum column flowsheet running sucessfully and once that's done it would be nice to get feedback on things like bugs and column configurations that fail to solve etc... After that some basic petyluk columns are on the waiting list for testing.
If anyone might be interested please send me a message
Thanks for reading this.
Regards,
Silver