Use of CAPE-OPEN Standard in US-UK Collaboration on Virtual Plant Simulation
Under the auspices of a US-UK Memorandum of Understanding and Implementing Agreement for fossil energy R&D (http://us-uk.fossil.energy.gov/), the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) have recently completed a three-year collaboration on virtual plant modeling and simulation technology for advanced fossil-energy power generation systems. The R&D collaboration was aimed at taking full advantage of the synergies between NETL’s ongoing Advanced Process Engineering Co-Simulator (APECS) project and the UK’s three-year Virtual Plant Demonstration Model (VPDM) project. The key objective of this collaboration has been the development of compatible, open standards-based US and UK technology for process/equipment co-simulation. To achieve plug-and-play model interoperability, the collaboration leveraged the process-industry CAPE-OPEN (CO) software standard which is managed and disseminated by the CO Laboratories Network (www.colan.org).
- Research Organization:
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Pittsburgh, PA, Morgantown, WV, and Albany, OR; UK Department of Trade and Industry
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE - Office of Fossil Energy (FE); UK Department of Trade and Industry
- DOE Contract Number:
- None cited
- OSTI ID:
- 936310
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/NETL-IR-2008-033; NETL-TPR-1766; TRN: US200818%%652
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2007 AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov. 4-9, 2007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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