The design of a dynamic simulation system of a liquid chemical filling process
The flow sheet and operation principle of a liquid filling process was briefly discussed, and the dynamic simulation mathematic models of the filling process were developed in detail using the mass balance equations, gas state equations and historical process data. Based on the intelligent process control (IPC) simulation mode, the overall structure and the development scheme of the filling process simulation system was designed. A dynamic simulation system of the filling process was successfully developed, by taking a typical SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) configuration software named Century Star as GUI (graphical user interface) development platform, and integrating with a DLL (dynamic link library) function program to perform the calculation of the simulation models programmed using Visual C++. The development of the simulation GUI included the design and Command Language programming of simulated process flow sheet diagrams, simulation command buttons and their displaying diagrams, and the operation and parameters adjustment diagrams of all kinds of manipulators in the process flow sheets. The overall simulation operation of the filling process was fairly good achieved. Then some comprehensive and systematic simulation tests of the filling process were carried out. The simulation results show that the simulation system could satisfy the filling process research and design requirements very well, and the main process operation parameters were optimized through these simulation tests.
3D Simulation System for Filling Lines Based on Object-Oriented Technology
：The requirements needed in designing of filling lines are discussed and the framework for 3D simulation system is presented. The modeling based on object-oriented technology and 3D graphics is introduced. An application based on the OpenGL and VC++ to simulate the process of beer filling lines is given.
Traceability strategy for gear-pitch-measuring instruments: development and calibration of a multiball artifact
There is a strong demand to ensure the traceability of gear-measuring instruments (GMIs). We propose a multiball artifact (MBA) for the evaluation of pitch-measuring accuracy. The aim of the MBA is to transfer the minimum uncertainty from a calibrated value at the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ) to a measured value of GMIs at a shop floor. The MBA is composed of equally spaced high-accuracy balls around an axis. The pitch-measuring accuracy of GMIs is evaluated by measuring the angular pitch deviation of the balls instead of the angular pitch deviation of a gear. We calibrated the angular pitch deviation using a coordinate measuring instrument (CMM) at the NMIJ and adapting a multiple-orientation technique. We proposed a calibration strategy of the angular pitch deviation. The calibration value of the pitch deviation for the MBA at the NMIJ was obtained with a measurement uncertainty (U95) of 0.2 µm. We evaluated the pitch-measuring accuracy of a GMI using the calibrated MBA. Each value of U95 for the cumulative and single pitch deviations for the left and right flanks was less than or equal to 0.5 µm. The small uncertainty was transferred from the NMIJ to the GMI.