This dialog appears when you select Tasks } Other Resources } Power Types from the main menu of the application or Resources } Power Types from the flowsheet’s command menu. If the process contains procedure which can produce power then the menus will appear as Tasks } Other Resources } Power Types Consumed and Resources } Power Types Consumed respectively.
This list presents all power types that are consumed in the process either in a specific operation or as a section wide power usage. Select a power type (will show as a highlighted row) and then click the View/Edit Properties button (
) at the top-right of the table or double click on the row of the selected power type. You will be presented with a dialog that allows you to edit the properties of the selected power type. From that dialog you can edit the purchase or selling price of the power, see where it is used in the process and set availability limits. Clicking on the View Locations Used button (
) will present you with a dialog which shows where exactly the selected Power is used in the process. For more details, see Power Type Properties Dialog and Locations where Power Types are Used Dialog.
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It is possible that a power type listed in this table, does NOT exist in your databank. Possibly it used to exist in your ‘SuperPro (User)’ database and it is now deleted, or you may be viewing a process model created by someone else and the original definition of that power type exists in his/her ‘SuperPro (User)’’ database. If that is the case, and you wish to keep a definition in your ‘SuperPro (User)’’ database for future use in other projects, you can deposit the power type in your databank (see Notes (e) below). |
NOTES:
a) Note that any changes in the properties of a power type through this dialog, will only affect the local copy of its definition in the process file and they will not be reflected in the values stored in the ‘SuperPro (User)’ database or in any other process files that utilizes the same type of power type.
b) You cannot explicitly add or delete power types to this list. A new entry is automatically added in this list as soon as that power type is engaged (for the first time) by an operation. It is also automatically deleted from this table, as soon as a power type is no longer engaged in any operation in this process model. If you wish to introduce a new power type to be used by your model, you should introduce the new power type in your power databank first, then engage it in your model (see Power Types Databank).
c) If you have modified the properties of a power type and you wish to update its database record based on its current values, then click on the Update Record in DB button (
). This will make the record kept in the database identical to the values as it now exists in your process file. If the selected power type does NOT exist in your power databank, this button will be disabled. In order to keep a copy of this power type in your databank, you must export its definition to the databank (see Note (e) below).
d) If you have modified the properties of a power type and you wish to reset its values to how they exist in your databank, then click on the Update Properties from DB Record button (
). This will refresh the values of the consumable type local definition (in the process file) to match the values of the power type as they exist in the database. If a record of this power type does not exist in your databank, this button will be disabled.
e) If a selected power type does NOT exist in your databank (either it used to exist and later deleted, or it was never defined there as the process model was created by someone else), you can export and keep a definition of this power type in your databank by clicking on the Export to DB button (
). Please note that this button will be active, even if a power type with that name already exists in your databank. In that case, you will get a chance to introduce a new record in the databank for this power type, but under a different name. This option is useful if you have modified the properties of a power type as they existed in the databank, and you wish to keep the modified version of the power type as well as the original.
