Outputs:

• Produce high quality process flow diagrams
• Update mass balance table on each process flowsheet automatically
• Select variables to display on mass balance table on flowsheet
• Create use variables that can be calculated from expressions and displayed in mass balance table.
• Customize reports (mass balance, equipment list, line list, water balance, reagents…).

Interface:

• Interact using graphical user interface conforming to familiar Windows standards
• Drag-and-drop equipment icons onto drawing page
• Select from an extensive library of process units
• Configure process unit using an intuitive Properties Viewer
• Use layers for a drawing page
• Layout flowsheet over easy multi-page navigation system

Outputs:

• Deliver high quality drawings either as:
  • Block flow diagrams
  • Process flow diagrams
• Easily include and update mass balance table on diagrams
• Easily include and update equipment table on diagrams
• Deliver customizable reports:
  • Mass balance
  • Production and reagents
  • Water balance
  • Mass balance design criteria
  • Equipment (including pumps/valves) list
  • Line lists
• Export for use in other applications:
  • Export flowsheets to SVG, JPG, BMP etc
  • Export all reports to Microsoft Excel
  • Export graphs to JPEG, BMP files

Stream manager

• Manage components in stream easily in the Stream Manager
• Copy and paste values from Excel directly into stream manager
• Examine data as individual streams, all streams at once or the inputs and outputs from a process unit

Steady-state simulations:

• Enjoy sequential modular approach by running single units, groups of unit, pages or entire project
• Reduce calculation time using optimized automatic selection of recycle loops
• Reduce error through automatic numbering and ordering of the process units

Calculations:

• Select from a large library of process units
• Select energy balance model integrated within each process unit
• Complement process units with generalized models, like phase splitter etc

Component data:

• Select from more 9000 components in database of physical and thermodynamic data
• Easily add User-Specified components
• Export and import components from other Cycad Process^® projects

Scenario analysis

• Import scenarios from Excel and run project
• Export results from scenario to Excel for further analysis and reporting

Extensive reaction options available:

• Extent/conversion-based reactions
• Rate-based (liquid or gas phases)
• Gas mass transfer
• Shrinking particle/core models

Milling and crushing:

• Milling breakage curves
• Crushing gradation curves.

Particle size distributions:

• Use PSD Manager to configure and track particle size distributions
• Calculate crushing and milling performance using breakage and gradation models.
• Account for particle size distributions on reaction with shrinking-particle model

Designers:

• Target output streams from a process unit using designers
• Select between Unit-specific and overall flowsheet designers
• Select different solver methods for Designers

Compare:

• Compare results between different scenarios and models. Avoid time c consuming searches for differences by using the ‘Compare’ function.

Parameter estimation:

• Fit parameters with the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm
• Fit most process unit parameters to measured data