LIBPF UI

The LIBPF UI (User Interface) product adds a user friendly interface and enhanced reporting capabilities to LIBPF. To know more, plase download the brochure.

Source code

The User Interface to LIBPF is based on NOKIA - Trolltech's Qt Cross-Platform Application Framework 4, Open Source Edition; the source code to LIBPF UI is available here under an Open Source license (GPL version 2).

Applications

The LIBPF UI module is required if personnel has to interact with the computation server for desktop, off-line use. Potential applications include:

• Licensors can deliver interactive mass and heat balances along with the traditional PDP (Process Design Package);

• Sales people can perform preliminary calculations of utilities consumption and yield to improve the accuracy of their estimates;
  
• Process engineers can perform interactive Process Flowsheeting for design, troubleshooting, technology investigation/feasibility study, process development.

Features

LIBPF UI is multilingual: it is available in English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese:

The LIBPF User Interface runs under several operating systems, such as Apple OSX 10.2 - 10.5:

Windows 2000 to Vista:

and Linux:

Through LIBPF User Interface it is possible to:

• Change selected inputs and configurations;
• Change, start and stop the computation kernels;
• Browse and read selected results;
• Save and retrieve cases:

• Generate spreadsheet reports in Excel or OASIS ODF.
  

The type of manipulations the users can perform and the amount of informations they can access can be exactly bounded; non-skilled users can be prevented from manipulating the connectivity or supplying unreasonable inputs (bounds checking); licensees can be prevented from understanding the model details.