Survey of Existing Systems for the Dynamic Simulation of Industrial Processes

Abstract

Dynamic simulation has the reputation of being a costly exercise. Tools to help reduce the development costs of dynamic models are discussed in this paper. Mathematical software libraries and CSSLs are briefly discussed from a user's point of view. Dynamic flowsheeting packages are classified, and one particular equation oriented package, SPEEDUP (Sargent, Perkins and Thomas (1982)) is discussed in detail.

Keywords

• Dynamic simulation
• mathematical software
• CSSLs