DWSIM Standalone Thermodynamics Library

Version 3.3.1.0
Copyright 2016 Daniel Medeiros
The DWSIM Standalone Thermodynamics Library is a .NET/Mono managed dynamic link
library (DLL) that exposes DWSIM s thermodynamics engine to external applications
using a simple programming interface, with no dependency on external components.
DWSIM Standalone Thermodynamics Library is free for commercial and non-commercia
l use. Read the license.txt file for more details.
Usage
To use the library in your .NET projects, add a reference to the DWSIM.Thermodyn
amics.dll file. All calculation functions will be available in the DTL.Thermodyn
amics namespace, inside the 'Calculator' class.
To use the library in other languages/ecosystems through its COM interface, you
must register it with Administrator privileges using RegAsm, which can be found
in your .NET 4.0 installation directory (usually C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framew
ork\v4.0.30319\). After finding the tool, open a DOS console window and run the
following command:
"RegAsm.exe /tlb:DWSIM.Thermodynamics.tlb DWSIM.Thermodynamics.dll"
This will create and register the type library automatically, making it callable
through COM.
Methods
This library has methods to calculate:
- Single Compound Properties
- Single Phase Mixture Properties
- PT, PH, PS, PVF and TVF Equilibrium Flashes, using an algorithm of your choice
(two or three phases)
Property and Equilibrium calculation functions require parameters that must be o
ne or more values returned by GetPropPackList, GetCompoundList, GetPropList, Get
CompoundConstPropList, GetCompoundTDepPropList, GetCompoundPDepPropList and GetP
haseList. They are self-explanatory, and will return values in an array of strin
gs.
For instance, the PTFlash function requires the name of the Property Package to
use, the compound names and mole fractions, temperature in K, pressure in Pa and
you may optionally provide new interaction parameters that will override the on
es used internally by the library. The calculation results will be returned as a
(n+2) x (3) string matrix, where n is the number of compounds. First row will c
ontain the phase names, the second will contain the phase mole fractions and the
other lines will contain the compound mole fractions in the corresponding phase
s.
For PH, PS, TVF and PVF flash calculation functions, an additional line is retur
ned that will contain the temperature in K or pressure in Pa in the last matrix
column.