The common purpose of all operation types in this group is to carry material in or out of the equipment contents of the hosting equipment. The actual type of operation that is available to a given unit procedure or that is chosen depends on the following aspects:
● Material is carried in or out of the vessel
● Material is bulk or discrete
● Material amount is specified by the user or is to be determined at simulation time based on some upstream or downstream requirements of other operations.
The timing of all transfer operations can either be set by the user, be left to be calculated by the program based on the amount transferred and a (user-specified) transfer mass (or volume) rate, or be tied up to another operation via a Master-Slave relationship. Most of the transfer operations do emission calculations (discrete transfer operations do not).
The currently available transfer operations for liquids are:
● Charge, see Charge
● Pull In, see Pull In
● Pull Out, see Pull Out
● Transfer In, see Transfer In
● Transfer Out, see Transfer Out
The currently available transfer operations for solids are:
● Charge (Solids), see Charge (Solids)
● Pull In (Solids), see Pull In (Solids)
● Pull Out (Solids), see Pull Out (Solids)
● Transfer In (Solids), see Transfer In (Solids)
● Transfer Out (Solids), see Transfer Out (Solids)
The remainder of this section, is dedicated to the description of these operations.