A comparative study on Aspen Hysys interconnection methodologies

Researchers often find the need to integrate commercial process simulators such as Aspen Hysys, Plus, PRO/II or others with their own applications. However, despite relevance of these tools, authors have found no systematic research on connection methodologies, a gap in literature that they aim address this work. The will study methodologies popular simulator Hysys four tools hold current potential use for chemical engineering researchers: Microsoft Excel (VBA), Matlab, Python and Unity (C#). Four different communication approaches are presented (direct communication, indirect internal spreadsheets, data tables), results being compared terms accuracy time exchange, deviation results. code used experiments is made available readers.