Process and technology data base

The process and technology data base is a set of process units or process interface models.

• Technology: refers to unit operation that will be assembled to define processes.
• Process: refers to set of process unit operations assembled in a flow-sheet to convert raw materials into products and by products. Following the modular approach, a process appears therefore as a set of interconnected process units operations related by mass and energy flows exchanges in pipes or cables.

Each process or technology model is added in the data base as a folder containing:

• the calculation engine model: the process data base in the calculation engine format
• the input parameters: the description of the variables that the user can modify to run the model and the way those values are send into the calculation engine process data base.
• the process unit interface model: the description of the data extracted from the calculation engine process data base and their usage to define the process unit interface.
• the documentation and the references
• the model reporting instructions
• the data base integration meta data that include
  • Validation status
  • Versioning
  • Authorship
  • Data base categorisation

Adding an element in the data base will allow its usage in various models, like process integration models, energy system integration models, or techno-economic and environmental impact assessment.