Use of Flowsheet Monitoring to Perform Environmental Evaluation of Chemical Process Flowsheets

Flowsheet monitoring interfaces have been proposed to the Cape-Open Laboratories Network to enable development of applications that access to multiple parts of the flowsheet or its thermodynamic models, without interfering with the flowsheet itself. These flowsheet monitoring applications generally perform post-processing on flowsheet calculations, such as flowsheet evaluation and validation. This paper will present an overview of the flowsheet monitoring capabilities and provides an example of an implementation of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (USEPA's) WAste Reduction algorithm developed using flowsheet monitoring..