A Short Course on the “Development of CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation models” is

organized on November 4, 2007 in Salt Lake City. It is sponsored by the

CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network (CO-LaN) in collaboration with the US

Environmental Protection Agency. This hands-on course where you create

process model components useable in any process simulator will be given by

Dr Lars von Wedel from AixCAPE e.V. (Germany) and Dr Bill Barrett from US

Environmental Protection Agency. Both have extended experience in CAPE-OPEN

implementation.



Lars von Wedel is managing director of the AixCAPE consortium. He started

work in the CAPE-OPEN project in 1997 and has continued to work in CAPE

software integration with CAPE-OPEN standards since then. He has developed

several CAPE-OPEN compliant components, some of them being used in chemical

engineering industries.



William Barrett is a chemical engineer with the US Environmental Protection

Agency. Since 2001 he has worked with the US Environmental Protection

Agency, Sustainable Technology Division on applications of Computer-Aided

Process Engineering aimed at improving the environmental performance of

chemical processes



Highlights of this short course include: an introduction into the CAPE-OPEN

technology, interactions between the simulation environment and the model

components, development of a simple mixer unit operation that implements and

utilizes the CAPE-OPEN technology, and other related issues.  The full-day

session will be hands-on and is intended to give attendees a practical

understanding of CAPE-OPEN.



WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

- Overview of the CAPE-OPEN technology.

- Key features of CAPE-OPEN. 

- The role of property packages and unit operation models in a simulation.

- How to use third-party CAPE-OPEN objects in your simulation environment.

- Hands-on creation of CAPE-OPEN model objects in C++, Visual Basic or C#.

- Use of the created object in a CAPE-OPEN compliant process simulator.

- What to anticipate in future developments.



WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This course will help engineers involved in process modeling, including

educators or researchers, to understand the fundamental aspects of CAPE-OPEN

technologies that constitute the basis of current calculation tools.



Registration to this Short Course is through AIChE at

https://www.aiche.org/apps/ecommerce/meetreg/meetreg.asp



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Michel Pons

Chief Technology Officer

CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network



32 rue Raulin       Tel: +33.689.939.062

69007 LYON, France  Mel: [log in to unmask]



www.colan.org

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