Modelling the entire process
24 Nov 2003
Fluent, Aspen Technology and Enductive Solutions have announced a new standalone software toolkit that hooks Fluent's computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software into Aspen's Plus process modelling software.
The integration toolkit, which enables Fluent 6.1 to be used with the recently released Aspen Plus 12.1, uses the process-industry CAPE-OPEN interface standards for unit operations, physical properties, and reaction kinetics, so that all integrated designs and analyses are based on consistent and complete data.
'Our customers require this kind of interoperability in order to see how individual process equipment items impact overall plant behaviour,' notes Barbara Hutchings, Fluent's Director of Strategic Partnerships.
Enductive Solutions is offering the integration toolkit as well as services designed to help customers deploy coupled CFD and process simulation as part of a complete engineering solution.
Alstom Power is one of several companies that played an advisory and applications role in the development of the toolkit. To demonstrate the utility of the toolkit, Alstom used it with success to model a conventional steam power plant and an advanced natural gas combined cycle power plant.
