Approved consultant for:

The use of all CAPE-OPEN major interfaces in CAPE-OPEN-compliant software components, in both CORBA and COM applications. Access to small teams of students to assist in project development.

Contact information

Name: Prof. Luis Puigjaner 
Company/Dept: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Dpt. Enginyeria Química

Address: Avda. Diagonal 647, Pab. G-2 E-08028 Barcelona, Spain

e-mail:   Luis.Puigjaner@upc.es

CAPE-OPEN References

  Benqlilou¹ C., S. Bel¹ , M. González¹ , M. Pons² , R. Szczepanski³ , A. Espuña¹ , and L. Puigjaner, "Towards the Standardisation of Thermodynamic and Physical Properties Packages", ESCAPE-14, European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering-14 (Eds. Tavoa-Barbosa, A. and Matos, H.) Elsevier, Amsterdam, in press. (2004).

Benqlilou, C., Graells, M., Espuña, A., Puigjaner, L., "An Open Software Architecture for Stady-State Data Reconciliation and Parameter Estimation", ESCAPE-12, European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering-12. (Ed. Grievink, J., Schijndel, J.), Elseiver, pp.853-858, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (2002).

Puigjaner, L., Graells, M., Reklaitis, G.V., "Computer Tools for Discrete/Hybrid Production Systems" Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering-11 (Eds. B. Braunschweig and R. Gani), Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ISBN 0-444-50827-9, pp. 433-452 (2002).

Puigjaner, L., Espuña, A., Reklaitis, G.V., "Frameworks for Discrete/Hybrid Production Systems" Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering-11 (Eds. B. Braunschweig and R. Gani), Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ISBN 0-444-50827-9, pp. 663-700 (2002).

Benqlilou, C., Bel, S., Pons, M., Espuña, A., Puigjaner, L. "Open Systems Architectures for Process Engineering Software: Minlp Solver Specification, Protoype and Testing", Proc. 9º Congreso del Mediterráneo de Ingeniería Química, pp. 560, Barcelona, Noviembre 2002.

Sequeira, S. E., Graells, M., Puigjaner, L., "Integration of available CAPE tools for Real Time Optimisation systems". European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering – 11, Vol. 9 (Ed. Gani, R., Jorgensen, S.B.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, ISBN 0-444-50709-4, pp 1077-1082 (2001).

Braunschweig, B., Irons, K., Roux, P., Gani, R., Mathisen K., Puigjaner, L. "Global CAPE-OPEN Project: Results to Date", 51^st Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference , pp. 243, Halifax, Canada, 14-17 October 2001.Braunschweig, B., Irons, K., Pons, M., Roux, P.,

Koeller, J., Kuckelberg, A., Puigjaner, L. "CO-LaN: Maintaining the CAPE-OPEN standard through a virtual organization", 51^st Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference , pp. 312, Halifax, Canada, 14-17 October 2001.

Any other useful information

The DEQ-TQG-LCMA group participated in the GCO Project, taking a leading role in the definition of some parts of the CO standards and also in the implementation of software prototypes for testing and assessment of other parts. The group has also participated successfully in the elaboration of different parts of the CO tester (MINLP and THERMO). The group is currently associated member of CO-LAN.

Regarding the use of CO standards to specific commercial applications, during the last 20 years, the DEQ-TQG-LCMA group has been developing software applications dealing with large and complex decision making problems (supply-chain, planning and scheduling, supervisory system and diagnosis), real-time optimisation (RTE) and decision support structures leading to the same objectives (see previous section). The software produced is currently being integrated in an open framework (MOPP) which is making extensive use of present standards like ISA S88 and SP95 and, obviously, CO