Somehow this paper defines what Dyssol, an open-source flowsheet simulation framework for particulate materials, developed by the research team at TUHH, will deliver as a modelling framework for the dynamic flowsheet simulation of processes designed for handling of particulate materials and will offer in terms of a comprehensive description of multidimensionally distributed particulate materials.The paper also briefly mentions the interoperability provided by CAPE-OPEN and implemented in SolidSim.
TUHH is an Associate Member of CO-LaN and engaged some 10 years ago in the development of SolidSim, a steady-state flowsheet simulator targeted at solids processes. At TUHH Dyssol is a kind of successor to SolidSim flowsheet simulation system. However, keeping in mind the experience of the SolidSim developers, TUHH, as per communications with CO-LaN, has deliberately decided to abandon the implementation of the CAPE-OPEN interfaces at the system kernel level while SolidSim relied on CAPE-OPEN for that. Since Dyssol was originally conceived as a research product, TUHH considers that using CAPE-OPEN could overly complicate the program at the initial stage and make it difficult to maintain later.
CO-LaN will investigate further with TUHH which constraints CAPE-OPEN technology was felt to introduce and remains confident that TUHH will renew its interest in CAPE-OPEN, may be for providing interoperability between Dyssol and CAPE-OPEN Property Packages.