AN OVERVIEW OF ICAS-IPDC - A SOFTWARE FOR INTEGRATED PROCESS DESIGN AND CONTROLLER DESIGN OF CHEMICAL PROCESSES

Abstract

. This paper introduces a software that has been developed based on a new systematic
model-based methodology for performing integrated process design and controller design
(IPDC) [1] of chemical processes. The software called ICAS-IPDC has been implemented into a
systematic computer-aided framework which uses the VBA (visual basic for applications)
programming language with Microsoft Excel interface. The ICAS-IPDC framework is
overviewed together with the main features of the software. ICAS-IPDC allows simple, accurate
and faster analysis of the IPDC problem of chemical processes, which helps in obtaining the
optimal solution of the complex IPDC problem easily.