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RECON
Getting started
Mass and Energy Balancing with Data Reconciliation and Validation

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Glossary

Getting started
Trying demo examples Setting up a new task Drawing a flow-sheet RECONs documents

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RECON

Software for Mass, Energy and Momentum balancing with Data Reconciliation and Validation Version of RECON which is restricted as concerns a size of solved tasks. The Lite version is free and can be downloaded from the Internet

RECON Lite

RECON.DLL
DR

RECON in the form of ActiveX object that can be called from other software
Data Reconciliation - Adjustment of data to obey natural laws. Reconciled data is more precise than the directly measured ones. DR also servers for detection and elimination of gross errors

Data Validation Improvement of the overall quality of process data (protection against random and gross errors)
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Getting started: Basic screen of the Lite version(1)

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The Lite version is a limited version of the full version. It enables one to create and solve small tasks limited by number of nodes, streams and components. A user in the Lite version is anonymous
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Getting started: Basic screen of the Full version (2)

Registration button License label

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The Full version enables one to create large flowsheets and to use further RECONs functions (connectivity to databases, creating databases of historical data, etc.) At the Full version the user must register himself/herself. In the beginning the only registered is ADMIN (password = admin) which can later define other users. 5

Getting started: Log in to RECON (3)

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Trying demo examples: Open files (1)

The open task button

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There are 20+ solved examples described in accompanied documents. Their names start by
MC - Mass and Component balance E - Energy balance UDE - User Defined Equations

Trying demo examples: A flowsheet (2)

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Press the Calculate - Run menu item

Running tasks and interpretation of results is described in the on-line help and in accompanied documents.

Setting up a new task: Basics (1)

Press this button Enter a name of your new task

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Setting up a new task: Basics (2)

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Fill the description (header of your task)

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Setting up a new task: Basics (3)

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Here you can modify units of measurement. Important is selection of mode of balancing - Mass or Molar.
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Setting up a new task: Basics (4)

Here you can add or remove components

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Enter/modify components ID and Descriptions (long names)

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Setting up a new task: Drawing a flowsheet (5)

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Click on the screen by the Right mouse button

Click on the New node menu item

You can also start drawing from the menu line

Drawing of a flow-sheet is started usually by creating nodes

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Setting up a new task: Drawing a node (6)

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Click on the screen by the Left mouse button Hold it and drag to the Right bottom corner of the node

After releasing the Left button fill the node ID

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Setting up a new task: Drawing a node (7)

Fill a nodes description (a long name)

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After pressing the OK button a nodes definition is completed

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Setting up a new task: Drawing a node (8)

You can see now the node

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Setting up a new task: Drawing a node (9)

Select a size of graphical objects

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It is now time to modify graphics according to the size of your task. Use menu Settings - Fonts and lines. You can also switch on a grid to make your flow-sheet more regular.
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Setting up a new task: Drawing a node (10)

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The Grid is activated by the menu item Settings - Gridlines. It is recommended to draw all nodes and to correct their placement before drawing streams. This is achieved by clicking on a node by the Right mouse button.
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Setting up a new task: Drawing a node (11)

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Select the Move/Resize item and Move/Resize (drag or stretch) by the Left mouse button

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Setting up a new task: Drawing a stream (12)

Start drawing a stream by clicking on New stream item

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In general, streams can start or end either outside of nodes (environment) or on the border of nodes (inside a double line of a border)
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Setting up a new task: Drawing a stream (13)

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Left click on the starting point of the stream Move the cursor to the end point of the stream and left click

Stream connecting 1 node with environment Stream connecting 2 nodes

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Setting up a new task: Drawing a stream (14)

Enter the stream ID (short name) Enter a stream description (long name)

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Enter a type of stream (Measured, Nonmeasured or Fixed) Enter a stream value Enter a stream uncertainty (For Measured type)

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Setting up a new task: Drawing a stream (15)

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After pressing the OK button the definition of a stream is completed.

A green dot shows that this stream starts in Environment

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Setting up a new task: Drawing a stream (16) Breaking stream lines

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During drawing a stream move the cursor aside of the line and Left click

Note 1: As the Left click is reserved for breaking the line, the ending of a stream in the Environment is done by the Right click Note 2: By holding the Ctrl key you can create stream breaks which are not rectangular

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RECONs documents

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This presentation helps user to start with RECON. The qualified use of DR requires more information which is presented in other ChemPlants documents.
1. RECONs on-line help
2. Process Data Validation in Practice. A comprehensive monograph covering both the DR theory and practical implementation of DR by RECON with many solved examples 3. Process Data Validation in the Power Industry. A comprehensive monograph targeted at balancing and DR in the Power industry including Nuclear Power Plants 4. Balancing and Data Reconciliation Minibook (available free on www.chemplant.cz)
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Other books about DR

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