Programming in simulation for process industry

Abstract

A programmable process plant includes a plurality of physical components relating to the processing at least one fluid in the process plant. A three-dimensional (3D) simulation system includes a plurality of programmable 3D simulation objects, each simulation object corresponding to a physical component of the process plant. The programmable 3D simulation objects include state variables relating to states of the simulation object and programming code which may be altered by a user during the execution of a simulation application on the 3D simulation system. Based on observed results of the simulation, programming code associated with one or more of the simulation objects may be transferred to a corresponding physical component. The physical component is configured to execute the transferred programming code to control or alter a state of the physical component of the process plant.

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