Unit Model#
Unit models represent pieces of equipment and their processes. These models contain the unit performance constraints and associated variables for the equipment, such as:
constraints relating balance terms to physical phenomena or properties (e.g. relating extent of reaction to reaction rate and volume)
constraints describing flow of material into or out of unit (e.g. pressure driven flow constraints)
unit level efficiency constraints (e.g. relating mechanical work to fluid work)
IDAES includes libraries of UnitModel classes. These models are composed of the following components:
ControlVolumeBlocks, which represent volume of material over which we wish to perform material, energy and/or momentum balances
StateBlocks and ReactionBlocks, which represent the thermophysical, transport and reaction properties of the material at a specific point in space and time
Inlets and Outlets, which allow UnitModels to connect to other UnitModels