A Hybrid Object-Oriented Library for the Simulation of Sugar Houses

The final department of any sugar factory is in charge of producing commercial sugar grains out of an impure sucrose in water solution by means of crystallization. Quality requirements demand a fed-batch mode of operation from most of the process units of the section and in particular from the industrial crystallizers. A library of reusable simulation models of the Sugar House have been developed taking advantage of object oriented modeling concepts. The dynamic simulation of batch equipment usually demands the use of hybrid type models.