CC-API
Interfacing CHEMCAD®

4 ways to interface with CHEMCAD®

Connect

standard software to CHEMCAD

This way, another application can use CHEMCAD's thermodynamic calculations, i.e. access property data and thermodynamic models.

Embed

CHEMCAD in your application

Your application can be written in C# or it can be based on WordPress, MATLAB, or LabVIEW.

Extend

CHEMCAD with custom unit operations

Convert expertise and know-how into a model that is used in process design and optimization. Or get an innovative unit op from our shop.

Operate

CHEMCAD in the cloud

We have developed some applications that demonstrate the unique advantages of cloud computing.

CC-API comes with 2 Programmes

.NET Interface Development Trial

.NET Interface

.NET Interface is the center piece of CC-API. It is a class library and an object model to access parameters in a CHEMCAD flowsheet.

CHEMCAD flowsheets contain unit operations, streams and physical properties. These objects have many parameters. With .NET Interface you can read any of these parameters, change their values, and write them back to the flowsheet.

Read more about .NET Interface here or download it here. The classes are documented here.

Add-on Manager

Unitops and Add-on Manager

Custom add-ons extend the CHEMCAD functionality.

Our Add-on Manager administers DLL files for any number of unitops, enthalpy models, k value models, pipe models, or kinetic reaction rates.

You can get these from our shop or from anyone who specializes in programming DLL files.

Application Engineering based on CHEMCAD®

CHEMCAD is a powerful process simulator. Applications based on CHEMCAD use CHEMCAD’s power in their own logic. They provide an interface to end-users, who do not have to know how to navigate the CHEMCAD GUI, as engineers in a process engineering department usually do.

Applications based on CHEMCAD prevent users from seeing and changing the flowsheet, which underlies the simulation. They focus on the end-user’s workflow, and not on the process design engineer’s requirements.

As software engineering calls it, “an application is used to deploy a CHEMCAD flowsheet to end-users” other than the process engineers who create and modify the CHEMCAD flowsheet.

For example, users of CHEMCAD-based applications at an owner-operator can be located in operations. For operators, a CHEMCAD-based operator training system (OTS) mimics the OTS screens that operators are used to, but allows to operate a virtual plant instead of the real plant.

For example, users of CHEMCAD-based applications at an equipment manufacturer can be located in pre-sales or sales. In sales, a CHEMCAD-based equipment configuration application allows to vary stream components (with varying physical properties) and operating conditions, but proposes only a selection from the manufacturer’s catalog.

For example, users of CHEMCAD-based applications at an EPC company can be located in detailed design or 3D design. For these designers, a CHEMCAD-connected engineering system or asset life cycle management system can check the legal conformity of the planning depending on the stream conditions in the background, and without requiring the designer to apply the conformity rules manually.

With CC-API, any application can use CHEMCAD and a flowsheet – and even hide this fact effectively. CC-API protects your intellectual property and provides a user-centric experience in non-engineering environments. This way, another application can use CHEMCAD’s thermodynamic calculations, i.e. access property data and thermodynamic models.

Interfacing CHEMCAD

CC-API is a member of the CHEMCAD Suite, just like CC-STEADY STATE, CC-DYNAMICS, CC-THERM, CC-SAFETY NET, CC-FLASH, or CC-BATCH.

CC-API is the official Application Programming Interface for interfacing with CHEMCAD. It is endorsed by Chemstations, Inc. in Houston, TX (USA). CHEMCAD^® is a registered trademark of Chemstations, Inc.

CC-API is a Capital-Gain Consultants project. It was designed in partnership with Chemstations, one of the leading suppliers of process simulation software in chemical engineering.

CC-API Interfacing CHEMCAD®