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CAPE-OPEN UPDATE, Volume 11
CAPE-OPEN UPDATE is a publication of the CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network (CO-LaN), a non-profit consortium for the development of the CAPE-OPEN standard.
CAPE-OPEN Laboratories Network. Annual General Meeting. 9-10 March 2006
Cannes, France
Attendees:
Philippe Arpentinier, Air Liquide; Lars Von Wedel, AixCAPE e.V.; Jasper Van Baten, AmsterCHEM; Michael Gobler, AspenTech; Ronald Klein,
BASF; Werner Drewitz, BASF; Peter Banks, BP; Malcolm Woodman, BP; Stéphane Brochot, CASPEO; Harry Kooijman, ChemSep; Michel Pons, CO-LaN;
Frank Eckert, Cosmologic; George Spyrou, CPERI; Jan Verwijs, Dow Benelux B.V.; Wilma Hensen, Dow Benelux B.V.; David Cameron, Fantoft;
Isidoro Hernandez, Honeywell; Ensheng Zhao, Honeywell; Joe Holmes, HTRI; Mark Lichtenauer, HTRI; Fernando Aguirre, HTRI; Murugesh
Palanisamy, HTSL; Bertrand Braunschweig, IFP; Martin Gainville, IFP; Pascal Roux, IFP; Jean-Charles de Hemptinne, IFP; Sylvie Cauvin, IFP;
Laurent Pigeon, IFP; Dominique Guerillot, IFP; Richard Szczepanski, Infochem; Thierry Gautier, INRIA; David Jerome, Invensys Process
Systems; Martin Peter Breil, IVCSEP; Nicolas von Solms, IVCSEP; Alain Vacher, ProSim SA; Olivier Baudoin, ProSim SA; Ben Keeping, PSE; Gregor
Fernholz, PSE; Thomas Williams, PSE; Didier Paen, RSI; Ray Dickinson, Shell Global Solutions; Richard Baur, Shell Global Solutions; Erhard
Perz, SimTech; Fatima Dargam, SimTech; Werner Merk, The Dow Chemical Company; Mathias Pogodda, TUHH; Alan Scott, TÜV-NEL; William Barrett, US EPA; Hans-Horst Mayer
Overall Agenda
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Status Report – Werner Merk
Membership
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CO-LaN has 7 Full Members and 46 Associate Members. This represents a gain of 11 Associate Members. The Full Members are: Air Liquide,
BASF AG, BP, Dow, IFP, Shell and TOTAL. The Associate Members break down into the following categories, showing the new additions this year:
28 software providers
14 universities
2 US Federal agencies
2 individuals
Management Board: The Board members in 2005, plus invited SIG leaders were:
| Dow |
W. Merk |
President |
| IFP |
B. Braunschweig |
Treasurer |
| BP |
P. Banks |
Secretary |
| BASF |
R. Klein |
Member |
| Shell Global Solutions |
R. Dickinson |
Member |
| Total |
J. Bousquet |
Member |
| Dow |
K. Irons |
Member |
| BP |
M. Woodman |
Member |
The Board had monthly phone conferences and quarterly physical meetings, which dealt with the 5 missions of CO-LaN, votes for new members
and general decision making. During the year, the CO-LaN Mission Statement has
been agreed.
Expanding Process Modelling Capability through Software Interoperability Standards
SIG Management:
- Unit SIG
- Thermo SIG
- Interoperability Support SIG
- Methods & Tools SIG (Bertrand Braunschweig). Created with initial focus on .NET
- Refinery Reactor Model SIG (Ignasi Palou-Rivera) Scope developed
Contracts and Services:
- Awarded by CO-LaN
- Michel Pons Technologie for CTO activities in 2006
- SHMA for CO Logging & Testing Tool development
- Licenses formally granted to CO-LaN for testing and demo purposes
- A+, HYSYS, Distil, ComThermo renewed by AspenTech
- VALI by BelSim SA
- UniSim Design by Honeywell
- MultiFlash by Infochem
- gPROMS by Process Systems Enterprise
- SIMULIS Thermodynamics by ProSim SA
- INDISS by RSI
- PRO/II renewed by SimSci-Esscor
- PPDS by TÜV-NEL
- Other software (e.g. COCO, SolidSim, IVCSEP)
Consultancy Services:
- Objectives
- Assist developers
- Secure CAPE-OPEN expertise
- Accomplishments in 2005
- CO Logging & Testing Tool specification
- CosmoTHERM
- Available capacity for 2006. Use it!
Marketing & Dissemination:
- CAPE-OPEN Award 2004
- CO Update #10
- Conference participation
- ESCAPE-15: Consultancy scheme
- PSE User Meeting: gO:CAPE-OPEN
- ICheAp-7: Support tools
- AIChE Annual Meeting (Cincinnati): CO Simulis and MATLAB
- EUROKIN workshop
- World Congress of Chemical Engineering: dynamic UNIT spec
- 2nd US CAPE-OPEN Meeting at US NETL
- Journal papers by CO-LaN
- NPT Procestechnologie, Oil&Gas Science Technology Journal
- Visits (some funded directly by TOTAL)
- NETRAL, Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Scandpower, Petroleum Experts, Rhodia, Gaz de France, CEA, The University of Tulsa
- A substantial number of papers about CAPE-OPEN were published at World Congress of Chemical Engineering, ESCAPE-15 and in Computers & Chemical Engineering Journal.
Website:
- Successful move to new hosting provider
- Minimum disruption of service
- Expansion of members area
- Management Board page
- Highlights of monthly meetings
- Pages for each SIG
- Minutes of meetings
- Issues discussion board (Thermo)
- Downloadable material (Interoperability)
- Updating of public pages
Training: ProSim SA delivered a CAPE-OPEN training session to Rhodia. There was no direct participation from CO-LaN.
The meeting endorsed the Status Report.
Proposals for 2006
- Contract MPT for technical leadership activities
- Complete AspenTech consultancy actions
- Development & maintenance of support tools
- Polish and publish existing SIGs work
- Dynamic UNIT and Thermo 1.1
- Creation of new SIGs
- Methods & Tools
- Refinery Reactor Model
- Dissemination policy
- Maintain and develop US
- Identify Asia and Middle East opportunities
- Engineering contractors
Proposals for Dissemination in 2006 are:
- AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, US
- Topical Conference (4 sessions)
- Overall progress
- Unit interfaces
- Thermo interfaces
- Numerical interfaces
- As 3rd US CAPE-OPEN Annual Meeting
- Consider sending Proposals to Present till May 1
- Others
- PSE Annual Meeting
- SIMO’2006
The Cannes Interoperability showcase and SIG reports are detailed earlier in this edition
of CO Update.
The meeting endorsed the 2006 budget.
Elections of Management Board for 2006
The Board elected for 2006 was:
Dow: Werner Merk (President)
BP: Peter Banks (Secretary), Malcolm Woodman (Member)
TOTAL: Jacques Bousquet (Member)
IFP: Bertrand Braunschweig (Treasurer)
Shell: Ray Dickinson (Member)
BASF: Ronald Klein (Member)
Companies with more than one member on the Board only have one vote, in accordance with the By-laws of CO-O-LaN.
CAPE-OPEN Award 2005 : the CAPE-OPEN 2005 award was presented to Fernando Aguirre (HTRI) for HTRI successful commercial implementation of the CAPE-OPEN
UNIT interface in a specialized engineering software suite with a global user base.
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