Isaac dynamics

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ISAAC Dynamics
Developer(s) TransientGroup
Stable release
3.0 / June 1, 2017;2 years ago (2017-06-01)
Written in Java
Operating system Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7/Windows 10/macOS/Linux
License Proprietary
Website ISAAC Dynamic product page

ISAAC Dynamics is a dynamic simulation software developed by TransientGroup. The main purpose of ISAAC Dynamics is the dynamic simulation of engineering processes for conventional and renewable power plants. ISAAC Dynamics has been developed over Java platform and it runs on many of the most common operating systems.

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History

ISAAC Dynamics was created in 2007 in Florence (Italy) from the idea of a group of process and computer engineers working at TransientGroup. In that period of time, the company's customers (ENEL [1] and ENEA [2] ) put forward the need for a dynamic software for the analysis of CSP (Parabolic Trough) plant. In the following years, ISAAC Dynamics has been adopted by other companies like China General Nuclear Power Group [3] (Renewable sector), Techint, [4] Alstom, [5] RSE, [6] etc. The libraries have been then extended to other fields in order to provide a complete tool for the process simulation. In the meantime TransientGroup was present to several conferences as author like SolarPACES [7] and Zero Emission. [8]

Product

ISAAC Dynamics is a tool used to perform dynamic simulation of process in the main fields of engineering. ISAAC Dynamics is used mainly in:

ISAAC Dynamics is used in order to:

Software structure

Main Window

ISAAC Dynamics opens presenting the main window where the user can select what to do. It mainly consists of:

  1. Builder Interface;
  2. Dynamic Model Interface;
  3. Tables Interface
  4. Custom module creator.

Builder Interface

The Builder Interface is the interface that the user can use to create the model, with the drag and drop system, browsing the libraries included in the software divided into:

The user can create its own library composed by customized blocks.

Dynamic Model Interface

In this environment the user can run the model previously created in the builder interface, setting a set of parameters as:

It is also possible to extract new model starting from a particular time during the simulation, open trends and extract data from the simulation in Microsoft Excel documents.

Tables Interface

Using this function, the user can browse the thermodynamic properties regarding the fluids included in the platform.

Custom Module Creator

The user can also create customized modules using the template provided in the software; the language used for the equations implementation is Java.

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References

  1. Enel website
  2. ENEA - Renewable Energy Sources
  3. CGN Power Co., Ltd. website
  4. "Techint main website". Archived from the original on April 30, 2015. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
  5. Astom Power Group website
  6. RSE website
  7. SolarPACES website
  8. Zero Emission website