As explained in Chapter 2:Switching Unit Procedures, SuperPro offers the option to switch a unit procedure inserted in the flowsheet with another one that belongs to the same procedure family. The table below illustrates the procedure families and the procedures in each family.
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Batch Vessel |
- Reactor - Bioreactor - Fermentor - Air-Lift Fermentor - Seed Reactor - Seed Bioreactor - Seed Fermentor - Disposable Bioreactor - Disposable Seed Bioreactor |
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Continuous Reaction Vessel |
- Stoichiometric Reactor - Kinetic Reactor - Equilibrium Reactor - PF Stoichiometric Reactor - PF Kinetic Reactor |
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Continuous Ferm. Vessel |
- Stoichiometric Fermentor - Kinetic Fermentor - Air-Lift Fermentor - Raceway Pond - Stoichiometric Seed Fermentor - Kinetic Seed Fermentor |
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Inoculum Preparation |
- Rocking Bioreactor - Roller Bottle - T-Flask - Shake Flask - Test Tube |
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Batch Liquid Storage |
- Blending Tank - Flat-Bottom Tank - Receiver Tank - Horizontal Tank - Vertical-on-Legs Tank - Drum - Tote - Disposable Generic Container - Disposable Large Bag on a Skid |
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Batch Solids Storage |
- Silo - Bin - Drum - Tote |
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Continuous Liquid Storage |
- Blending Tank - Flat-Bottom Tank - Receiver Tank - Horizontal Tank - Vertical-on-Legs Tank - Drum - Tote |
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Continuous Solids Storage |
- Silo - Hopper - Bin - Drum - Tote |
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Bulk Mixing |
- 2-Stream Mixing - 3-Stream Mixing - 4-Stream Mixing - 5-Stream Mixing - 6-Stream Mixing - 7-Stream Mixing - 8-Stream Mixing - 9-Stream Mixing - Custom Mixing - Flow Adjusting - Mixture Preparation |
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Bulk Splitting |
- 2-Way Splitting - 3-Way Splitting - 4-Way Splitting - 5-Way Splitting - 6-Way Splitting - 7-Way Splitting - 8-Way Splitting - 9-Way Splitting - Custom Splitting - 2-Way Component Splitting - 3-Way Component Splitting - 4-Way Component Splitting - 5-Way Component Splitting - 6-Way Component Splitting - 7-Way Component Splitting - 8-Way Component Splitting - 9-Way Component Splitting - 3-Way Distribution - 5-Way Distribution - 10-Way Distribution - Custom Splitting |
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Heat Exchanging |
- Heating - Electric Heating - Cooling - Electric Cooling -Heat Exchanging |
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Drying |
- Tray Drying - Freeze Drying - in Double Cone Dryer - in a Cone Screw Dryer - in a Sphere Dryer - Drying / Granulation - Spray - Fluid Bed - Drum - Rotary |
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Membrane Filtration |
- Microfiltration (Batch) - Microfiltration (Feed-and-Bleed) - Ultrafiltration (Batch) - Ultrafiltration (Feed-and-Bleed) - Diafiltration - Reverse Osmosis (Batch) - Reverse Osmosis (Feed-and-Bleed) |
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Cloth Filtration |
- in a Dead-End Filter - in a Nutsche Filter - in a Plate & Frame Filter -in a Rotary Vacuum Filter |
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Liquids (Near) Transport |
- by Centrifugal Pump - by Diaphragm Pump - by Gear Pump - by Peristaltic Pump |
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Gases (Near) Transport |
- by Centrifugal Compressor - by Fan - by Vacuum Pump |
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Solids (Near) Transport |
- by Belt Conveyor - by Pneumatic Conveyor - by Screw Conveyor - by Pneumatic Elevator |
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Far Transport |
- by Truck (Bulk) - by Truck (Discrete) - by Train - by Sea - by Air |
It is important to recognize that switching a procedure from one family to another is not just a convenient shortcut to deleting the procedure, and creating a new one with the same (or equivalent) operations in it. When a user deletes a procedure (and all the operations in it) all references to those operations are deleted (e.g. for scheduling purposes as start time reference operation, see Scheduling Terms & Definitions). Then after the new operation(s) are inserted, the cross-references must be established once again, a painstaking and error prone process. When switching the family of a procedure, all the cross-referenced to the contained operations remain intact, thus saving the modeler a lot of time. Furthermore, when switching families, and whenever possible, user settings are carried automatically over to the new (equivalent) operations created, thus saving the user a lot of time. However, not all settings can be carried over from one operation to another (e.g. from an ultrafiltration operation to a diafiltration operation), therefore user should inspect and approve the newly created operations manually by visiting their i/o simulation dialogs.