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Introductory Course

Daniel Oliveira de Medeiros created the open-source process simulator DWSIM in 2004. This introductory course will cover DWSIM's history and origins from Excel macros to its current features. Students will learn how DWSIM compares to other simulators like HYSYS and Aspen Plus, as well as the source material that influenced DWSIM's development. The goal is for students to understand what DWSIM does, why it was designed the way it is, and how it fits in the landscape of other process simulation tools.

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Introductory Course

Daniel Oliveira de Medeiros created the open-source process simulator DWSIM in 2004. This introductory course will cover DWSIM's history and origins from Excel macros to its current features. Students will learn how DWSIM compares to other simulators like HYSYS and Aspen Plus, as well as the source material that influenced DWSIM's development. The goal is for students to understand what DWSIM does, why it was designed the way it is, and how it fits in the landscape of other process simulation tools.

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DWSIM Introductory Course

About Me
• I’m Daniel!

• Full name: Daniel Wagner Oliveira de Medeiros


• Became a Chemical Engineer on Dec 2004

• Programming since 2001 (C, C++, VBA, VB.NET, C#...)


• Developing DWSIM since 2004

• Working as a Process Engineer at the Oil and Gas industry since 2005
• Online instructor since 2018 (?...)
Course Outline
• About DWSIM
• Why DWSIM
• Features
• History & Origins
• Early versions
• Why Open-Source?
• Comparison with Other Tools
• HYSYS
• Aspen Plus
• COCO Simulator
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Source Material
• Papers
• Books
• Online sources
Course Goals
• Understand what DWSIM does
• Why it is what is is
• What were my inspirations
• How it compares to other tools
• What is the source material
About DWSIM
• Why DWSIM
• It should have been something different, but you can think about something like Daniel Wagner
SIMulator? It was a suggestion from a friend of mine which I didn’t take too seriously at the
time… now I find it too weird. Let’s consider that DWSIM is just a name, without any meaning…
much better this way.
• Features
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/dwsim
• http://dwsim.inforside.com.br/
• History & Origins
• First Excel macros (VBA – PR & SRK EOS, UNIFAC models)
• Bill Barrett’s paper (Development of a CAPE-OPEN compliant process simulator on
Microsoft.NET - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009813540500219X)
• Microsoft’s Design Surface Sample (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973830.aspx)
• Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio_Express#2005%E2%80%932010_produ
cts)
About DWSIM
• Early versions
• The first release
• Becoming open-source
(https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/opsim/ROUZoBMXiiY)
• Mono Version (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/opsim/L6RLLsFn6oQ)
• Further development
• Milestones
• CAPE-OPEN interfaces (http://dwsim.inforside.com.br/wiki/index.php?title=CAPE-OPEN)
• Parallel Solver & GPU acceleration
(http://dwsim.inforside.com.br/wiki/index.php?title=Parallel_calculation_options_in_DWSIM
_3)
• Remote solvers (http://dwsim.inforside.com.br/wiki/index.php?title=Solver_Configuration)
• Mobile versions
• Cross-Platform Interface (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IUG6hMs8Uo)
• Why Open-Source?
• Because I’ve wanted everyone to know how a chemical process simulator works…
Comparison with Other Tools
• DWSIM x HYSYS (inspiration for UI, setup workflow, result reports, material
stream composition input)
• DWSIM x Aspen Plus (I don’t know Aspen Plus, never had to work with it and
don’t like it. Very confusing interface)
• DWSIM x COCO Simulator (used to test the CAPE-OPEN interfaces and check
calculation results)
• Strengths
• Availability (DWSIM is available on all platforms)
• User Interface (some users say that it is very user-friendly)
• Models (many Unit Operations and Thermo models)
• Support (very fast e-mail support)
• Bug fixing and new releases (I’ve always try to fix bugs as soon as possible and am always
working on new features)
• Weaknesses
• Documentation (insuficient written documentation)
• Math instability (because I have to use free tools…)
• Free tools only (because DWSIM is GPL)
Source Material
• Source Material
• Papers
• Books
• Online sources

à Check additional file for a list of relevant papers and books


Other DWSIM Courses
• Basic 1 (Installation, Setup, Running a Simulation)
• Basic 2 (Thermo & Unit Operation Models, Solution Inspector)
• Basic 3 (Additional Flowsheet & Rigorous Column Models)
• Intermediate 1 (Reaction Subsystem & Petroleum Fractions)
• Intermediate 2 (Compound Creation & Flowsheet Utilities)
• Intermediate 3 (Flowsheet Analysis Tools)
• Advanced 1 (Advanced Modeling, Data Regression, Excel Add-In)
• Advanced 2 (Python Scripting)
• Developer (Debugging Sessions, Interfaces, DTL & Extras)
The advantage of being the developer...
• We will be running DWSIM in debug mode all the time!
• You will understand how DWSIM internals actually work
• We’ll be doing the tasks together from scratch
• We will be working around errors as they arise
• I’ll be giving hints during the course based on my experience as the
developer of the tool

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