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Welcome
to the homepage of NeqSim (Non-Equilibrium
Simulator). NeqSim has been developed at Department
of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, at the
NeqSim is a dynamic process simulator
specially designed to handle non-equilibrium situations. Common non-equilibrium
processes include absorption, distillation, multiphase flow in pipelines,
drying processes, hydrate formation and heat exchange. NeqSim
also handles traditional equilibrium process calculations (equilibrium
separators, equilibrium streams).
The applicability of NeqSim
is in the areas of
- Equilibrium
calculations (TPflash / PHflash
/ TVflash ….)
- Multiphase
flash calculations
- Chemical
equilibrium calculations (reactive equilibrium)
- Electrolyte
calculations (salts, amines)
- Hydrate
calculations (TP-flash, phase curves)
- One
phase pipe flow / Two phase flow (steady state / transient)
- Absorption
/ Distillation (steady state / transient)
- Freezing
point calculations
- Construction
of Thermodynamic Property Charts (2D / 3D)
- Parameter
fitting (thermodynamic / fluid mechanics data)
NeqSim is built upon six base modules:
- Thermodynamic
Routines
- Fluid
Mechanic Routines
- Physical
Properties Routines
- Chemical
Reaction Routines
- Parameter
Fitting Routines (including experimental database)
- GUI
module
NeqSim is programmed in Java – and is
easily extendible with new modules. NeqSim implements
Python (Jython)
as a scripting language – a powerful, easy and object oriented language. Python
documentation is available here. Fast
and easy Python scripts are automatically made with the toolbars in the GUI. NeqSim uses the Jext text-editor and the VisAd
scientific visualization library.
The documentation is available here.
A thesis work related to NeqSim is available here.
Example-scripts are available here.
Things I hope to implement in the near future
are
- Process
Optimisation routines
- Slug
Flow Routines
- Better
GUI
The documentation is scarce at the moment – but
will hopefully be better soon.
You are welcome to send your comments to Even Solbraa.