SIP: Oper. Conds Tab

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

○ Steam Type Indicates the cleaning steam that is used by the operation. Click on the list box to bring up a list of available steam heating agents in order to select one.	<Steam>	Any Steam Heating Agent
● Inlet Temp. (^oC) The inlet temperature of the cleaning steam.	152.0	Positive
● Outlet Temp. (^oC) The outlet temperature of the cleaning steam.	152.0	Positive
○ Material Consumed Indicates the material that is used as cleaning agent during the In-place steaming. Click on the list box to bring up a list of available stock mixtures or pure components (depending on the selected option) in order to select one.	Water	Any Stock Mixture or Pure Component
○ Remove Contents with Disposed Agent? Check this box to remove vessel contents as waste with disposed material associated with the steaming agent.	No	Yes/No
○ Waste Type Indicates the waste type of the material associated with the heating agent. It can only be changed from the properties of the Heat Transfer Agent.	<none>	Any Waste Type
○ Waste Treatment Cost ($/kg) The cost of waste treatment per kg of waste material associated with the heating agent. It can only be changed from the properties of the Heat Transfer Agent.	0.0	Positive
○ Deposited to Storage Unit Select a Receiving storage unit to collect agent waste and contents, and track waste material. List will only show receiving units that have the same waste type classification as the heating agent’s associated material. See Registered (in use) Material Storage Units for info on how to defined a Receiving Unit. By default the application will assign the “SIP Waste” storage unit that is automatically created with every new process model (see Special Purpose Receiving Units for CIP & SIP Waste).	<none>	Any Rec. SU
◙ Rate (kg/h) The mass flow rate of cleaning steam.	600.0	Positive
◙ Amount per Cycle, per Unit (kg) The mass of cleaning steam per cycle and per equipment unit.	0.0	Positive
◙ Rate per Volume (kg/h/m³) The mass flow rate of cleaning steam per equipment volume.	100.0	Positive
◙ Amount per Volume (g/L) The mass of cleaning steam per equipment volume.	0.0	Positive
◙ Amount per Area (kg/m²) The mass of cleaning steam per equipment area.	0.0	Positive
● Total amount (kg) The total mass of cleaning steam used for the operation.	150.0	Positive
● Total Flowrate (kg/h) The total mass flow rate of cleaning steam used for the operation.	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
○ Steaming Time (min) The actual duration of the operation.	30.0	Positive
○ SIP Panel Indicates the Auxiliary Equipment used to carry out this operation. See Auxiliary Equipment for information on how to define SIP Panels in the process.	<none>	User Defined
○ Include Use of Consumables Check this box to include the use of consumables by the SIP Panel. If the panel does not have any consumables specified this check box is hidden.	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 SIP: Modeling Calculations.

•Consumption Contributions...

You can specify up to five different contributions for the steam consumption specification: a rate, an amount (per cycle, per equipment unit), a rate per equipment volume, an amount per equipment volume, and an amount per equipment area.

•SIP Panel

A SIP panel can be either selected from a list predefined SIP panels by selecting it from the drop-down list or created by clicking on the Create new SIP Panel button . When creating a new SIP panel you will be presented with the Auxiliary Equipment Properties Dialog: Aux. Equipment Tab for: CIP Skid, SIP Panel and User-Defined Aux. Equipment Type dialog where you can enter the desired panel specifications. The selected panel properties may be viewed at any time by clicking on the view button .

•Sharing of CIP Skids...

When the same SIP panel is shared by multiple operations, the program makes sure that the processing times of those operations do not overlap.

The list of ingredients (pure components and stock mixtures) available to select as a cleaning agent include only those that have already been registered. If you don’t find the ingredient needed, you must register them first through the Pure Component Registration Dialog or the Stock Mixture Registration Dialog. Instead of exiting the operating conditions dialog and selecting Tasks } Pure Components } Register, Edit/View Properties..., or Tasks } Stock Mixtures } Register, Edit/View Properties...,for convenience, two buttons allow a user to invoke either of the above interfaces without leaving the stream dialog. After visiting either of the aforementioned interface to add a component (or a mixture), upon return to the operation dialog, the component (or mixture) is readily available in the list of ingredient options and can be selected as cleaning agents.