(397b) Status and Future Perspectives of the Refinery Reactors SIG

Revise and develop the necessary CAPE-OPEN interface standards for the use of

Refinery Reactor models in Process Modelling Environments

This talk will focus in two aspects of the SIG's work:

* Current Status: What has the group accomplished so far and what remains to be done until the initial objectives are accomplished? The two prototype implementations of the interfaces will be demonstrated.

* Future Perspectives: What do we want to do and accomplish after 2008? The initial SIG objectives should be accomplished and the prototypes working. Obviously these accomplishments should be pushed forward and the prototypes should be converted into commercial implementations. But, what else? There are a number of topics that look very attractive: defining and prototyping the "crude characterization" component, extensions into the Equation Oriented world to better support optimization applications, etc