General hiatus 

• a tool for studying the effects of process integration on the controllability 
• a universal tool to make user-written process simulations 
• a tool for process synthesis in which the tool acts like an 'intelligent boss' 
• a tool for studying the dynamic effects in boiler feed water preheating in thermal cogenerating power stations  

Calculation of costs and economics 

• software tools for a global and detailed calculation and optimization of the overall economics of a process  

Evaluation and optimization methods 

• methods for the optimization of power control and variable speed control methods for the evaluation of energy, exergy and power flows 
• loop calculations 
• water pinch or balances 
• simultaneous design of a heat exchanger network and process simulation 
• design of a heat exchanger network suitable for more than one application 
• risk analysis of uncertainties with respect to process or market data  

Batch and continuous processes 

• a tool for the simulation and control of batch processes and its combination with continuous processes (dynamic simulation) 
• software program for the scheduling of batches 
• software program for a direct overview of the production  

Dedicated applications 

• simultaneous calculation of heat losses and pressure drops in a pipe 
• calculation of efficiencies based upon parameters from the environment 
• a software program in which hydraulic and separation constraints can simultaneously be specified, for the revamp of a distillation section  

Data exchange 

• improvement of data exchange between software programs including word processors 
• exchange of flowsheeter data and real-time data 
• possibility to include comments in the calculation results to improve the communication between the design and engineering departments  

Data 

• programs that take into account particle size, agglomeration, crystallization, the viscosity of fluids and quality parameters of for example polymers 
• data on rare organic compounds and water/steam tables are sometimes missing  

Data representation 

• an easy way to restrict the output to the desired output data only, preferably in the desired units 
• graphical representation of data (Sankey and Grassmann diagrams)  

Unit operations 

• reactive distillaton 
• combustion of gases, liquids and solids (including mixing) 
• absorption of inorganic gases in water 
• coal activation 
• adsorption on coal/zeolites 
• heat pumps 
• biotechnological syntheses 
• modelling of reactors (gas/liquid, liquid/solid) 
• two-phase flow in pipes 
• modelling of crystallization and polymerization  

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