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Indexed by:期刊论文

Date of Publication:2008-01-01

Journal:CHINA PETROLEUM PROCESSING & PETROCHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY

Included Journals:SCIE、Scopus

Issue:3

Page Number:55-59

ISSN No.:1008-6234

Key Words:HYSYS automation; plate heat exchanger; Component Object Model (COM)

Abstract:When simulating or designing plate heat exchangers for multicomponent mixtures, most designers are often perplexed with the question on how to choose or estimate the physical property parameters and hope to have a reliable database that could be adopted. The commercial codes HYSYS supply the physical property package on over 1500 pure substances and over 16 000 binary coefficients for them. This work has briefly presented an efficient communication interface based on the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM) between inner plate heat exchanger simulation codes and the HYSYS package. The application of a custom-made HYSYS-COM interface has shown high efficiency, such as significant reduction of time needed for evaluating each process stream's properties. This automation method can be conveniently extended to further optimization study for any specific operation device such as heat transfers, columns, and other facilities.