Olivier Baudouin1, Stéphane Dechelotte1, and Alain Vacher2. (1) ProSim, Stratege Batiment A, BP 2738, Labege Cedex, 31312, France, (2) ProSim SA, Stratege Batiment A, BP 27210, Labege Cedex, 31672, France
ProSimPlus® and Simulis® Thermodynamics are software applications developed by ProSim Company. ProSimPlus® is a general steady state process simulator used by many industrial companies. Simulis® Thermodynamics is a thermophysical propertiescalculation server that generates highly accurate pure component and mixture properties (thermodynamic, transport, compressibility…) and fluid phase equilibria (liquid-vapor, liquid-liquid and liquid-liquid-vapor). The standard version of Simulis® Thermodynamics is provided as an add-in in Microsoft® Excel or as a toolbox in MATLAB® and enables the user to run complete thermodynamic calculations in these applications, but it can also be plugged in any legacy code. In this presentation, we show their new CAPE-OPEN capabilities following the new implementation of CAPE-OPEN Thermo 1.1. Now, on the one hand, ProSimPlus offers CAPE-OPEN thermodynamic plug and socket facilities (version 1.0 and version 1.1) thanks to the integration of the thermodynamic calculation server Simulis® Thermodynamics. On the other hand, ProSimPlus also offers a CAPE-OPEN unit socket to be able to call external models for unit operations. These unit operations can be compliant either with CAPE-OPEN Thermo 1.0 either with CAPE-OPEN Thermo 1.1 or even both. These different capabilities are here demonstrated with the use of third-party components. So, with this support of the CAPE-OPEN standard (version 1.0 and 1.1), ProSimPlus proposes a new way to integrate customers' know-how.