Bulk-to-Discrete Conversion: Oper. Conds Tab

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Variable Definitions, Ranges and Default Values

The following table shows a brief description of the variables appearing in this tab. The table also displays their default values and their generally acceptable range:

Variable

Default Value

Range

 

Entity Name
The name of produced discrete entities.

Discrete Entity

Any Text

Bulk Amount Per Unit (g or mL)
The bulk mass or volume of a discrete entity.

1.0

Positive

Operating Throughput per Unit (entities/h)
The flowrate of discrete entities per equipment unit.

0.0

Positive

Power Type
Indicates the power type that is used by the operation. Click on the list box to bring up a list of available power types in order to select one.

<Std Power>

Any Power Type

Specific Power (kW/(Entity/h))
The power consumed for the operation per feed rate of discrete entities.

0.0

Positive

Total Power (kW)
The total power consumed for the operation (per cycle).

0.0

Positive

Power Per Unit (kW)
The power consumed for the operation per equipment unit.

0.0

Positive

Setup Time
The amount of time (per cycle) spent before each operation is carried in preparation for the actual execution of the operation. It may involve actions like cleaning, vacuuming, setting up of equipment, etc. which the user opted not to model explicitly.

0.0

Positive

Process Time
The actual duration of the operation (per cycle).

60.0

Positive

Ignore Labor?
Check this box to ignore labor for this operation. This option is used only if the process time is set by a master-slave relationship.

Yes

Yes/No

Symbol Key: User-specified value (always input); Calculated value (always output); Sometimes input, sometimes output

Specification Choices / Comments

The following list describes the available specification choices in this tab; for more details on how these are implemented, see Bulk-to-Discrete Conversion: Modeling Calculations.

Operating Throughput per Unit...

The Throughput variable is calculated by the program based on the output stream.