API Reference

This section documents the main classes and functions in ProcessPI.

Units

• Velocity(value, unit)
• Diameter(value, unit)
• Density(value, unit)
• Viscosity(value, unit)
• Temperature(value, unit)
• Pressure(value, unit)
• SpecificHeat(value, unit)
• ThermalConductivity(value, unit)
• HeatFlux(value, unit)
• HeatTransferCoefficient(value, unit)
• HeatOfVaporization(value, unit)
• Time(value, unit)
• Mass(value, unit)
• MassFlowRate(value, unit)
• MolarFlowRate(value, unit)
• Volume(value, unit)
• VolumetricFlowRate(value, unit)

Components

• Acetone(temperature=Temperature(...))
• Water(temperature=Temperature(...))
• Toluene(temperature=Temperature(...))
• Methanol(temperature=Temperature(...))
• OrganicLiquid(...)
• InorganicLiquid(...)
• Gas(...)
• Oil(...)
• Vapor(...)

Calculations

• CalculationEngine()
• .calculate("fluid_velocity", volumetric_flow_rate, diameter)
• .calculate("reynolds_number", density, velocity, diameter, viscosity)
• .calculate("friction_factor_colebrookwhite", diameter, roughness, reynolds_number)
• .calculate("pressure_drop_darcy", friction_factor, length, diameter, density, velocity)
• .calculate("pressure_drop_hazen_williams", length, flow_rate, diameter, density, coefficient)

Pipelines

• PipelineNetwork(...)
• .add_pipe(start, end, diameter, length, roughness)
• .describe()
• .schematic()
• .visualize_network()