Expanding Process Modelling Capability
through Software Interoperability Standards

At the Global CAPE-OPEN project (GCO) final meeting in Cambridge in December, 2001, Malcolm Woodman from BP demonstrated CAPE-OPEN interoperability, using Aspen Plus from AspenTech, HYSYS.Plant from Hyprotech, gPROMS from PSE and Multiflash from Infochem. This was a very significant event, since it was the proof that someone from an operating company was able to use CAPE-OPEN "plug and play" interoperability working with commercial simulators and tools. All of the software used is available from the suppliers, provided, of course, you have the respective licenses. The demonstration shows the enormous progress that has been made by GCO in developing comprehensive and unambiguous specifications, and by software suppliers in making the use of CAPE-OPEN components in their simulators convenient and reliable.

Additionally you can access the interoperability demonstrations that were given on the Global CAPE-OPEN mid-term meeting in Amsterdam November 2000.

Caution! The size of these video files ranges between 1 Mb and 4Mb.

aspenplus.avi (2.21 Mbytes)
This video shows interoperability with Aspen Plus using foreign unit operations and thermodynamic services.

gPROMS(1).avi (3.78 Mbytes)
This video shows gPROMS using foreign thermodynamic services.

gPROMS(2).avi (3.96 Mbytes)
This video shows more gPROMS with foreign thermodynamic services, including comparisons over several runs.

Hysys.avi (3.20 Mbytes)
This video shows interoperability with Hysys using foreign unit operations and thermodynamic services.

HYSYS2.2-kit 236 speed.avi (1.25 Mbytes)
This video shows speed improvements on interoperability with Hysys 2.2 using foreign thermodynamic services.

HYSYS2.4 speed.avi (1.43 Mbytes)
This video shows more speed improvements on interoperability with Hysys 2.4 using foreign thermodynamic services.

HYSYS3.0 speed.avi (1.68 Mbytes)
This video that the speed improvements are effective in Hysys 3.0 too.

Multiflash.avi (1.23 Mbytes)
Multiflash(2).avi (239 Kbytes)
Multiflash(3).avi (1.83 Mbytes)
These videos show HYSYS and Aspen Plus using Infochem's Multiflash thermo services.