Patent ID: 9053260
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G05B,G06F

Abstract:
1. A simulation system comprising: at least one processor configured to execute a computer program product, said computer program product being stored upon a storage medium, said computer program product comprising a spreadsheet application, a process simulation application, and an integration tool, wherein the spreadsheet application and the process simulation application are discrete, stand alone products; said spreadsheet application comprising a graphic user interface for interacting with users, said graphical user interface comprising a grid of a plurality of cells arranged in rows and columns, each cell being associated with a cell specific value able to be uniquely addressed as a spreadsheet object, wherein said spreadsheet application is configured to associate at least one formula with a cell, wherein a value of the cell is able to be calculated based upon said associated formula; said process simulation application comprising a computer program product for simulating chemical processes using at least one flowsheet, which models a general flow of chemical plant processes and equipment; and said integration tool comprising programmatic code for calculation orchestration, wherein said calculation orchestration permits sequential batch processing of multiple runs to be initiated by said user at a given time, and for mapping process simulation application objects and properties to spreadsheet application objects, for conveying information between mapped objects, for performing case management functions to (i) automatically combine results from different runs of a same flowsheet in a common mapped spreadsheet and to (ii) automatically map input data and output data simulation results from different flowsheets which have different process flow diagrams to different spreadsheets each as a separate column of a single spreadsheet workbook.