Petro-SIM 7.0 Changes to Tools

Excel Application and Reporting Workbooks



New Reporting Workbook with Predict Input Sheet!

Common changes

  • Charting system enhanced for new workbooks, offering greater flexibility
    • New Chart Manager making chart administration easier
    • Support for multiple chart pages
    • More flexible chart configuration, allowing multiple lines per chart
  • Basecase can be tied to a database case

Application Workbooks

  • Optimizer configuration in can now be edited from within Excel
  • Scenario Manager available

Reporting Workbooks

  • Now include a Predict Input sheet that collates input variables from the Main and each sub-flowsheet

Excel Datasheet General


New datasheet generation in Excel for any object in a Petro-SIM case


Configurable Equipment Datasheets
  • One Excel worksheet per object or object type
  • Content built from template you create and format as needed

New heat and material balance report generation using your own templates


New Configurable Heat and Material Balance Tables
  • Functionality accessed from Send To in object inspect menus in PFD
  • Working on a starting template library for the full release version

Multi Data Set Analysis

  • The Data Set Analysis utility is a new utility that allows you to compare measurement values to calculated results across a wide number of data sets
    • Supports any number of data sets that can be imported from monitoring cases in a Petro-SIM database, from Historian, from Excel application workbooks or set up manually
    • Gives you options to configure trend and parity plots to let you compare visually
    • Includes configurable analysis statistics you can use to compare results quantitatively
  • It can be used independently or run as part of the Calibration application where it will treat data sets as cross-predict cases
    • Allows you to run these cross-predicts as part of calibration, letting you establish how well a new calibration or tuning performs versus measurements

LP Utility



Expanded LPU Functionality!
  • You can now generate multiple base delta tables per LP Utility
    • Previously support one set of delta coefficients with multiple base points
    • Now support a different set of delta coefficients per base
  • You can visualise the linearised model results and interactively apply bias terms to variables
    • Biases can be included within exported coefficients or included as a separate column
  • LP Utility data set calculations can be run in parallel, exploiting multiple cores on your computer
  • You can export the Base Delta table as a separate unit operation allowing for simplified modelling and for easier LP model assurance
    • Base Delta unit operation takes feed streams and generates product streams for use in the flowsheet
    • Product can be a combined effluent or be individual cuts as represented in the LP submodel
    • Can be separate unit operation or can be separate mode in full reactor