Defects Resolved in 6.1 Service Packs

Service Pack 4 - November 2018

  • Defect: 3546: 64 bits: 64-bit Xpress license is required for a 64-bit blender to work
  • Defect: 12564: Assay Handling: Reactor does not solve because of refinery assay confusion issues
  • Defect: 11564: Assay Handling: Assay Adjuster for VABP Using the Wrong Vector
  • Defect: 11563: Assay Handling: Unusual Assay Adjuster Response to VABP
  • Defect: 5418: CAPE-OPEN: Pure properties should not be returned by GetPropList
  • Defect: 5417: CAPE-OPEN: All pure volumes should not be the same
  • Defect: 5415: CAPE-OPEN: kvalues should be handled as a two-phase property
  • Defect: 5414: CAPE-OPEN: Surface Tension should not be an overall property
  • Defect: 12859: Correlations: Case takes a long time to load
  • Defect: 12436: Database: Incorrect CAS Registry number for two components
  • Defect: 6895: Date/Time - Scenario: Accumulation of non-rate based variables needs to be handled better by accumulation calculation
  • Defect: 5218: Date/Time - Scenario: Removing variable from strip chart does not update the Time Series - Strip Charts tab legend
  • Defect: 4980: Date/Time - Scenario: Time series does not update if strip chart is renamed
  • Defect: 12988: Documentation & Help Files: Pressing F1 on certain pages doesn't bring to expected help page
  • Defect: 12968: Documentation & Help Files: Spreadsheet: incorrect function help
  • Defect: 13572: Dynamics - General: Case crashes when running LNG in Dynamics
  • Defect: 13329: Dynamics - General: When you import an XML controllers can unexpectedly switch to the wrong algorithm
  • Defect: 13114: Dynamics - General: Crash deleting Cause from Cause and Effect Matrix
  • Defect: 13058: Dynamics - General: Quick Basic friction model in dynamics calculates pressure drop incorrectly
  • Defect: 12990: Dynamics - General: Case crashes while running the integrator (Product Build Only)
  • Defect: 12530: Dynamics - General: Refinery assays incorrectly synthesized and flow rate flipping between two values
  • Defect: 12515: Dynamics - General: No way to limit PV value and prevent alarms being triggered on negative flows
  • Defect: 12354: Dynamics - General: Integrator should warn about implicit static head contributions
  • Defect: 11377: Dynamics - General: 3 Phase Sep Water Level
  • Defect: 14228: Dynamics - General: Valve elevations are lost during dynamic initialization
  • Defect: 14145: Dynamics - General: Dynamics cases runs with general solver failures
  • Defect: 13796: Dynamics - General: Case crashes if integrator is running and the Initialize button is pressed
  • Defect: 12799: Dynamics - General: Dynamics Case crashes after 3 minutes of the Integrator running.
  • Defect: 14159: Dynamics - General: Pump warns about vapour in inlet when switched off
  • Defect: 13840: Environment - Basis: Petro-SIM 3.3 case crashes on load
  • Defect: 12921: Environment - Basis: Crash deleting Synthesis Component List
  • Defect: 12885: Environment - Basis: Infinite Solve when exporting to component mapper variables
  • Defect: 12884: Environment - Basis: Crash editing variable in spreadsheet
  • Defect: 12424: Environment - Basis: User property mismatch between basis list and component list
  • Defect: 12149: Environment - Basis: Isobutane appears as Refrig-600a when opening MFL file in Petro-SIM
  • Defect: 13078: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Publish -> Write to file window not fitting all content
  • Defect: 12815: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Validation Result title row wiped out after calibration
  • Defect: 12730: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Petro-SIM Ribbon Not Present in Excel 365
  • Defect: 12622: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Error in sending phase variables (viscosity of vapor phase) to excel
  • Defect: 12540: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Full Distop column calibration factors missing filter 6 under the calibration input sheet
  • Defect: 12314: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Handle calculated targets when copying from calib to predict without running calib
  • Defect: 11433: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Copy problem when no results on Calibration Results page
  • Defect: 11460: Excel - Export to Excel: All Streams displayed, even when "Boundary Streams only" checked.
  • Defect: 13129: General: Minor Typo on ribbon bar
  • Defect: 12634: General: Rx info cannot be exported to a spredsheet
  • Defect: 12521: General: Build 1471 - Unable to open Petro-SIM after install
  • Defect: 12169: General: Columns, splitters and flowsheets are ignored after case file is saved as another file
  • Defect: 14136: Iface - General: About rich text shows wrong characters for trademark and copyright
  • Defect: 14087: Iface - General: Font sometimes gets modified externally and buttons show wrong font size or type
  • Defect: 14059: Iface - General: Petro-SIM maximises views out of reach
  • Defect: 13963: Iface - General: <nobub> tag showing up in flyby
  • Defect: 13942: Iface - General: Petro-SIM process not closing cleanly
  • Defect: 13939: Iface - General: Resizing maximized oils environment leaves behind old lines
  • Defect: 13873: Iface - General: Quick access option should be disabled on Windows 10 by default.
  • Defect: 13760: Iface - General: Missing key in string table for StdLiqSG units
  • Defect: 12714: Iface - General: Case crashes viewing Distillation Plots
  • Defect: 12514: Iface - General: Crashes in event scheduler when objects are deleted
  • Defect: 12505: Iface - General: Null pointer crashes with messed up knowledge base
  • Defect: 12139: Iface - General: Case crashes when closing Petro-SIM
  • Defect: 11658: Iface - General: Catalyst Age reported in month
  • Defect: 5214: Iface - General: Datasheet graph lines are going off the chart
  • Defect: 4904: Iface - General: Difficult to add section diameter as independent variable
  • Defect: 4071: Iface - General: Highlighting all cells in big matrices took a large performance hit in v4
  • Defect: 3903: Iface - General: Save All dialog box needs to be redone
  • Defect: 14221: Iface - General: Drag and drop onto spreadsheet crashes when dialog box about labels come up
  • Defect: 14220: Iface - General: Drag and drop stops working after recall
  • Defect: 13945: Iface - General: Infrequent crashes on close in LinkedList code
  • Defect: 13841: Iface - General: Transpose option of workbook gives crash
  • Defect: 13246: Iface - General: Case crashes on close
  • Defect: 12550: Iface - General: Large case shows some issues that need attention
  • Defect: 12504: Iface - General: Standard conditions push pop mechanism is a crash vulnerability
  • Defect: 12924: Iface - PFD: Pump Widget goes bad on a 270 degree turn
  • Defect: 12452: Iface - PFD: Case crashes in the PFD code when exiting Calib Environment
  • Defect: 12227: Iface - PFD: Two meter Icons show up for STG power stream
  • Defect: 5369: Iface - PFD: PFD tables with only some streams change to show all steams if something gets added to the PFD
  • Defect: 4852: Iface - PFD: PFD cross-hairs never go away after opening case or moving object
  • Defect: 14109: Iface - PFD: Copy paste of object creates a meter label that's separate on PFD
  • Defect: 13263: Install / Uninstall: 32/64 bit Windows File Handler extension not installing correctly on Win 7 x64
  • Defect: 11057: KBC License Tester: Cannot commute token/chip licenses easily
  • Defect: 11928: Lab Analysis: Inconsistent Lab Analysis behaviour
  • Defect: 13422: Licensing: Petro-SIM allows me to use more seats than I'm licensed for
  • Defect: 13375: Licensing: DRT mode lets the user do more than they should
  • Defect: 13369: Licensing: COM invocation with runtime licensing now incorrectly require RX or Petro-SIM licenses as well.
  • Defect: 12832: Licensing: Case falsely shows use of CatFeedHydrotreater license
  • Defect: 14016: Licensing: Engineering and Rx licenses not checking SIM Suite license string, or presence of v4 license
  • Defect: 14012: Licensing: Crash in Multiflash Licensing code
  • Defect: 12240: Multivariable Navigator: Case crashes when cloning stream property
  • Defect: 6324: Network Solver: Network Solver deletes boundary specification from recycle unit op
  • Defect: 14071: OLE - Extensions: BPT-ROX extension causes PS to crash when you close PS
  • Defect: 13262: Ops - Compressor/Expander: Compressor Limits allow non-sensible specifications
  • Defect: 9930: Ops - Compressor/Expander: Backwards calculations to the rating compressor do not solve
  • Defect: 7469: Ops - Compressor/Expander: Compressor fails to solve
  • Defect: 7203: Ops - Compressor/Expander: Deleting compressor IGV cruves results in different surge/recycle requirement
  • Defect: 7087: Ops - Compressor/Expander: Compressor surge and stonewall line change when inactive performance map deleted
  • Defect: 12816: Ops - Distillation: Bottom Product Graphical Misrepresentation in Distillation Tower Dialog
  • Defect: 12748: Ops - Distillation: Disconnecting column product and saving gives crash
  • Defect: 12460: Ops - Distillation: Column Profile Plot Labelling Error
  • Defect: 12345: Ops - Distillation: Column error message about vapor enthalpy
  • Defect: 12999: Ops - Heat Xfr: Crash changing Heat Exchanger spec
  • Defect: 12993: Ops - Heat Xfr: Air cooler
  • Defect: 12265: Ops - Heat Xfr: Single Helix Double Helix features need to be removed from HX options
  • Defect: 13014: Ops - Heat Xfr: Clarify Exchanger Performance Details Page
  • Defect: 13166: Ops - Heat Xfr: Crash solving converted HYSYS case
  • Defect: 12721: Ops - Hydraulics plugin: Maximus hydraulics plugin stopped working
  • Defect: 14125: Ops - Meters: Meter should give better diagnostics when it can't calculate C:H
  • Defect: 13008: Ops - Meters: liquid actual mass density MIX/MAX validation inverted in meters
  • Defect: 12445: Ops - Meters: Case crashes on close in the meter code
  • Defect: 13970: Ops - Mixer/Tee/Valve: Consistency Error in Material Stream Object
  • Defect: 12459: Ops - Optimizer: Multiple Active Cases in an auto-solve optimiser never stop solving
  • Defect: 13811: Ops - Pipe: Pipe undo undoes the wrong segment
  • Defect: 13792: Ops - Pipe: Pipe fails with a flash failure using OLGAS
  • Defect: 13790: Ops - Pipe: OLGAS correlation giving very poor results which does not match HYSYS or other correlations
  • Defect: 13767: Ops - Pipe: Undo-ing (Ctrl+Z) some parameters in pipe as well as multiple Undos cause PS to crash
  • Defect: 12941: Ops - Pipe: Pipe solves to the wrong temperature
  • Defect: 12652: Ops - Pipe: Pipe segment can never solve with segment heat transfer
  • Defect: 12104: Ops - Pipe: Pipe crashes reading in slug information
  • Defect: 3650: Ops - Pipe: Simple pipe model does not handle or warn about heat losses
  • Defect: 13181: Ops - Reaction Set Based: Reaction set solver gets stuck in infinite loop with simple reaction setup
  • Defect: 6654: Ops - Reaction Set Based: Conversion reactor not heat balancing in 4.1SP2 onwards
  • Defect: 69: Ops - Reaction Set Based: Equilibrium reactor switches to separator mode too easily
  • Defect: 12768: Ops - Reaction Set Based: PFR with no reaction set crashes when saved to DB (or XML)
  • Defect: 14040: Ops - Spreadsheet: Infinite loop in Spreadsheet
  • Defect: 12780: Ops - Steam Operations: Problem with Petro-SIM 6.1 steam unit operations
  • Defect: 12658: Ops - Synthesis Transition: synth trans not handling unclassified C5s properly
  • Defect: 14116: PS Explorer: Database doesn't create New Monitoring App unless 1650 is registered
  • Defect: 14115: PS Explorer: Creating a New Monitoring App with "Application" in the name fails
  • Defect: 14092: PS Explorer: KBC.Monitor fails with slight variation in connection strings across run definitions
  • Defect: 14069: PS Explorer: PS Explorer improperly labelled
  • Defect: 13993: PS Explorer: Meter report displaying values in wrong units (not supporting units overrides)
  • Defect: 13968: PS Explorer: KBC Explorer doesn't handle SQLite file paths with = character
  • Defect: 13221: PS Explorer: Explorer not correctly identifying scantily-defined MPI utilities
  • Defect: 13118: PS Explorer: Build 1608 - Unable to create a New Monitoring Application
  • Defect: 14133: Refinery Ops - Alky: Running SALK-SIM sample case via workbook Predict fails
  • Defect: 14206: Refinery Ops - Assay Adjuster: Assay fixer plot shows wrong values
  • Defect: 12896: Refinery Ops - Assay Adjuster: Case crashes on save after running LPU
  • Defect: 12672: Refinery Ops - Blender: Blender fails due to bad scale factor handling
  • Defect: 13573: Refinery Ops - Blender: Zero Flow blend the only infeasible one
  • Defect: 13707: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: Coker Operating Data Collaboration causing all streams lighter than LCGO to become disconnected
  • Defect: 13397: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: Disconnect incompatible streams or give better messaging when switching configuration
  • Defect: 12792: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: RE: Looks like a bug in DC-SIM
  • Defect: 12461: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: DC-Sim not recognize VelGO flow input of 1 bpd or less correctly
  • Defect: 12420: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: Modify DC-Sim HGO API to show decrease rather than flat
  • Defect: 12402: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: BP Castellon DC-Sim calibration issues
  • Defect: 12397: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: DC-SIM responses to furnace steam suspect
  • Defect: 12396: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: DC-Sim HCGO S response to CFR bad at high CFR for BP Castellon coker
  • Defect: 12393: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: DC-Sim product N response vs CFR incorrect at high CFR
  • Defect: 12390: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: DC-SIM need to allow linear liquid product S response to feed S
  • Defect: 12389: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: DC-Sim wrong yields to pressure response with low NH3 factor
  • Defect: 13107: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: Inconsistency in coker calibration due inability to correctly determine bottoms stream
  • Defect: 13697: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: Set block target stream flow not picked up by coker
  • Defect: 12866: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: C3+ volume yield should be net in Validation Yield report
  • Defect: 12589: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: FCC Wizard and Sample cases have incorrectly setup cloned Yield property
  • Defect: 12575: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Add error message for 0 H2 yield in calibration
  • Defect: 12565: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Mixture dewpoint, composition and Non-vapour feed Hydrogen on Coke incorrect if mid riser feed present
  • Defect: 12442: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Feed metals not getting cleared from corrected column
  • Defect: 11291: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Fortran Runtime Error due to undefined variable OutTempRiser1 in fccrxu.for
  • Defect: 11216: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Regen Air stream in PS shows 100% O2 when no ambient air T input
  • Defect: 10766: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Hydrogen balance to be always shown in data rec for FCC basecase
  • Defect: 10463: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Problem with translation of core aromatics distribution between FCC and PS
  • Defect: 13571: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: FCC not recognizing feed riser split
  • Defect: 12635: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Infinite loop in regen internal catalyst circulation update routine
  • Defect: 13131: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: HXX Pressure Drop calibration fails due to wrong assigned value of last bed outlet P when there are 6 beds (maximum allowed)
  • Defect: 12981: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: Different and wrong effluent fine tuning behavior in 6.1 sp3 versus earlier
  • Defect: 12670: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: HXX wrong varID for previous reaction section of calibration results
  • Defect: 12624: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: Reactor bed pressure drop wrongly uses the dVF/dAGE input instead of XKUPs for calculation
  • Defect: 12605: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: Tops Pressure Drop results wrongly linked internally
  • Defect: 12577: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: Previous Poison Output Parameters wrongly shows up in Predict Input sheet causing inconsistency error
  • Defect: 12528: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: RHDS metals h factor lower reset limit wrongly assigned as 2.0 instead of 1.0
  • Defect: 12466: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: RHDS Cumulative Metals Accumulation Option does not work properly for R2 and R3
  • Defect: 12185: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: BPRR - GOH1 - ULSD WABT prediction result targeting bottoms S might end up at the other side of the floor
  • Defect: 13991: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: DHTR-SIM Nitrogen synthesis method
  • Defect: 12898: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: Iso-paraffins content property shows empty for HCR and DHTR models
  • Defect: 14155: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: Mistakenly used RHO instead of API in pressure drop calculation caused reverse DP response
  • Defect: 13998: Refinery Ops - ISOM-SIM: Penex model
  • Defect: 12927: Refinery Ops - Olefin-SIM: OLE3 - secondary severity
  • Defect: 12858: Refinery Ops - Olefin-SIM: Furnace does not solve on new clean machine when using engine 2
  • Defect: 12343: Refinery Ops - REF-SIM: Valero- Reformer in Refinery wide model-collaboration with xml file causes outlets to disconnect
  • Defect: 14015: Refinery Ops - VIS-family: Coker Furnace crashes when selecting dump fouling data to file and it is open by Excel
  • Defect: 11384: Refinery Properties: Case resolves upon opening due to duplicated properties
  • Defect: 12457: Solver: Supporting Multiple Optimisers per flowsheet has broken Multiple optimisers in multiple flowsheets
  • Defect: 13973: Store/Recall - Non-KBC: Unisim XML that falls over in a bad way
  • Defect: 12627: Store/Recall - Non-KBC: TASC HX unit conversions incorrect
  • Defect: 11554: Store/Recall - XML: Loading XML case setting up bad feeder block
  • Defect: 12727: Streams: Crash when viewing stream compositions
  • Defect: 13904: Synthesis: Bad results from synthesis using TBP Wt & GC data
  • Defect: 13477: Synthesis: Synthesis sulfur balance operates against wrong target in update cut mode
  • Defect: 13365: Synthesis: CARB Properties don't calculate to sensible values
  • Defect: 13140: Synthesis: MON does not get synthesised when viscosity physprops method is Hot Volume Blending
  • Defect: 13030: Synthesis: When saving an assay of a stream to the oil environment, then view assay properties in the oil environment, the listed boiling points are inconsistent with the actual NBP's of the hypo's.
  • Defect: 12834: Synthesis: Crash importing Assay xml file
  • Defect: 12712: Synthesis: C5 iso-paraffins mismatched setup leads to mass imbalance across cutter
  • Defect: 11918: Synthesis: Inconsistent isomers synthesized by reformer and hydrocracker
  • Defect: 12532: Synthesis: Occasional Fortran out of range error in sulfur synthesis
  • Defect: 12488: Synthesis: Problems with Alky Predict (Synthesis)
  • Defect: 11166: Thermo - Flash: IOFlash PV flash failing pretty badly
  • Defect: 13089: Thermo - Multiflash: PS Crashes after linking to a MF Property Package
  • Defect: 12036: Thermo - Multiflash: Multiflash RKSA does not produce surface tension for `Pipesys example
  • Defect: 12570: Thermo - Property Package: LKP Package sometimes does not sole or show zero enthalpy values.
  • Defect: 14105: Tools - Calibration: Calibration synthesis TBP envelope curve not showing trends
  • Defect: 12741: Tools - Calibration: Auto-Setup button not configuring calib stream synthesis correctly
  • Defect: 3767: Tools - Calibration: undo for calib optimizer setup adds new variable
  • Defect: 12181: Tools - Cut/Copy/Paste: Case crashes when combining objects into subflowsheet
  • Defect: 14194: Usability - Platform: Unable to change the trace and status window height on secondary monitor
  • Defect: 5274: Utilities - Data Rec: Need smarter diagnostics from data rec
  • Defect: 13987: Utilities - Data Rec: Case crashes while saving Meter variables
  • Defect: 12992: Utilities - Hx Monitor: Deleting Hx Monitor Utility asks about hidden KPI and Datarec Utilities
  • Defect: 12211: Utilities - Hx Monitor: Enhancement request-HX Monitor-data rec
  • Defect: 11884: Utilities - Hx Monitor: Enhancement - change time/date stamp to reflect user's local time zone
  • Defect: 3935: Utilities - KPI: Favourites should show spreadsheet results better
  • Defect: 14073: Utilities - LP Utility: Base Delta solver always calculating on weight basis
  • Defect: 14070: Utilities - LP Utility: Swing cut page in LP utility doesn't show temperature units
  • Defect: 14061: Utilities - LP Utility: PS Build 1650 - PS Crashes when attached XML file is opened
  • Defect: 12616: Utilities - LP Utility: LP Swing cut cannot be connected to a spreadsheet
  • Defect: 12777: Utilities - LP Utility: LP Swing Cuts when used in conjunction with rigorous towers intermixes draws when it shouldn't
  • Defect: 12894: Utilities - Plot Utility: Build 1763-TC 2918 - PS Crashes when data copied as Metafile
  • Defect: 12377: Utilities - Plot Utility: Possible Plot Utility bug for basic nitrogen
  • Defect: 4381: Utilities - Plot Utility: Labels not updating correctly in Plot Utility
  • Defect: 11706: Utilities - User Properties: Can't delete multiple User properties at the same time.

Service Pack 3 - August 2017

  • Defect: 11956: Assay Handling: Case crashes after recalculating assay
  • Defect: 11468: Assay Handling: Case doesn't solve fully on recall
  • Defect: 12179: Database: DB case hierarchy gets corrupted when saving case on top of itself
  • Defect: 11889: Database: Database gets corrupted when case save fails
  • Defect: 12455: Database: Saving case on top of itself *still* corrupts case hierarchy
  • Defect: - : Database: Support for DB cases with multiple geneations where names only 1 character long
  • Defect: 11004: Date\Time - Scenario: "Apply State" State 1 option does not work properly
  • Defect: 11741: DB Explorer: TC 3071 - Available cases not displayed in the Explorer.
  • Defect: 11380: Documentation & Help Files: [Test Case 1914] Verify help links from all SIM models
  • Defect: 12221: Dynamics - General: Heat exchangers give an invalid solution.
  • Defect: 12193: Dynamics - General: Controller PV units are not accessible
  • Defect: 12153: Dynamics - General: Controller PV is an unreasonable value
  • Defect: 12141: Dynamics - General: Aqueous level taps give wrong reading when there is no aqueous phase
  • Defect: 12057: Dynamics - General: Memory leak detected in dynamics case
  • Defect: 12002: Dynamics - General: Dynamic chimney tray weeping behavior is wrong
  • Defect: 11941: Dynamics - General: Multiple dynamics related bugs from OTS Client Feb 1
  • Defect: 11820: Dynamics - General: Case crashes on close in the Dynamics Assay handling code
  • Defect: 11576: Dynamics - General: Integrator takes a while to start.
  • Defect: 11575: Dynamics - General: Dynamics initialization views take a long time to open
  • Defect: 11464: Dynamics - General: Case crashes on close in the Dynamics Assay handling code.
  • Defect: 11437: Dynamics - General: Case crashes trying to do an autosave while stopping the Integrator in Dynamics
  • Defect: 11397: Dynamics - General: Pressure Rise across check valve
  • Defect: 11376: Dynamics - General: Pressure not propagating in dynamics system
  • Defect: 11343: Dynamics - General: FW: OTS Client GOK3-Heat Loss Issue
  • Defect: 11342: Dynamics - General: LNG crashes with certain Delta P Calc parameters
  • Defect: 11231: Dynamics - General: Pressure blip opening valve
  • Defect: 11027: Dynamics - General: Equation Summary View Button does not resize with the window
  • Defect: 7299: Dynamics - General: Valve gets stuck with large flow rate when closed
  • Defect: 12264: Dynamics - General: Incorrect level displayed in PID block for aqueous level
  • Defect: 12374: Dynamics - General: Two undesired liquid phases
  • Defect: 12306: Dynamics - General: Vessel heat loss does not go to zero when set to none
  • Defect: 12296: Dynamics - General: Tray section instability and problems
  • Defect: 11548: Environment - Basis: Flowsheet not recalculating when it should
  • Defect: 11088: Environment - Oil: Text overlap on Conversion Reaction View
  • Defect: 11363: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Prime prediction run not picking up case cut points
  • Defect: 11308: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: application workbook Charts not working properly for Opt Summary with multiple iterations
  • Defect: 11279: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Cases marked for inclusion in calibration average get wiped as case is rerun
  • Defect: 11201: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Results do not always update
  • Defect: 11177: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Issue with XML Export to network location
  • Defect: 10950: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Excel does not update highlight color on heat of reaction factor correctly
  • Defect: 10936: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Distop column Cut points are not properly exported from Excel Workbook
  • Defect: 10864: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: PS freezes when loading basecase from excel
  • Defect: 10634: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Notes on Running Monikers in Knowledgebase
  • Defect: 1072: Excel - App & Rept Workbooks: Enable D86 90% cutpoints from V4 DC workbook
  • Defect: 11340: Excel - DB & LP Reports: from support incident 1005238 - exporting to lpu template not working
  • Defect: 10606: Excel - DB & LP Reports: Base column not populated in submodel template data export
  • Defect: 11621: Excel - Export to Excel: Crash after adding worksheet to Excel
  • Defect: 11452: Excel - Export to Excel: Excel Interface Problem - Cannot send specified values toconfigured specifications.
  • Defect: 11323: Excel – Export to Excel: Copy function in Excel
  • Defect: 11528: General: Component splitter failed to ignore feed stream with zero flow
  • Defect: 11434: General: Cetane Index D4737
  • Defect: 11406: General: LPU Case from Client
  • Defect: 11249: General: Time bomb doesn't appear to be working
  • Defect: 11009: General: Case crashes during cut/copy/paste
  • Defect: 10544: General: Controller Specsheets are incomplete
  • Defect: 11410: General: User Variables clog up the Trace Window while running in Dynamics
  • Defect: H1012743: HX-Monitor: Clean up tracking of embedded KPI changes
  • Defect: 12205: Iface - General: Process data table issues (not dynamics mode)
  • Defect: 12125: Iface - General: Multiple optimisers per flowsheet
  • Defect: 12112: Iface - General: Right click on large matrix with many cells selected is slow
  • Defect: 12047: Iface - General: Reordering knowledge base items does not always work
  • Defect: 12029: Iface - General: Something in preferences file causes matrices to not paint properly
  • Defect: 11992: Iface - General: Allow double click on matrix row labels to auto size width (like Excel does)
  • Defect: 11955: Iface - General: Case crashes on close in the Notes Manager
  • Defect: 11915: Iface - General: Scenario utility does not create initial user logic
  • Defect: 11891: Iface - General: Excel Workbook Synthesis Template row for feed streams only built once feed stream associated with a template in the basecase
  • Defect: 11871: Iface - General: HXX-SIM validation report of LHSV is wrong
  • Defect: 11863: Iface - General: User variable script changes lost if not careful
  • Defect: 11861: Iface - General: Blending recipes not importing on to Spreadsheet - due to Spanish vowels
  • Defect: 11633: Iface - General: Unable to paste large data chunk into a spreadsheet
  • Defect: 11588: Iface - General: Case crashes after double-clicking on Bulk Properties
  • Defect: 11572: Iface - General: Petro-SIM never starts up and remains as a background task
  • Defect: 11463: Iface - General: Case crashes selecting Wild Naphtha plot
  • Defect: 11124: Iface - General: xml case gets stuck on Auto-Recovery
  • Defect: 12347: Iface - General: Copy formatted table option puts -32767 values in clipboard for regular text instead of what you see
  • Defect: 12302: Iface - General: Crash in trying to drag multiple items to strip chart
  • Defect: 11456: Iface - PFD: PFD Tables not updated after simulation converges
  • Defect: 11341: Iface - PFD: Crash deleting Subflowsheet
  • Defect: 11254: Iface - PFD: PFD tables shouldn't get updated when changing synthesis methods?
  • Defect: 10838: Iface - PFD: New streams defined show up on top of old streams
  • Defect: 11015: Install / Uninstall: Missing files from 6.1 sp2 install
  • Defect: 10940: Install / Uninstall: 6.1 SP2 no longer installs on Win 7 pre-SP1
  • Defect: 10963: Lab Analysis: xml case fails to open on recall
  • Defect: 11233: Licensing: Crash when Petro-SIM is opened
  • Defect: 11122: Licensing: Crash in the licensing code when no application licenses available
  • Defect: 10705: Licensing: Expiration Pop-Up Windows stopping UMT Bulk Runs
  • Defect: 12291: Licensing: Build 1738 - PS Crashes when out of Network
  • Defect: 11914: Multi-Case Reporting: multi-case report does not show enum values, or allow enum values to be copied
  • Defect: 10431: Multi-Case Reporting: Reporting/Multi-Case Reporting Should Support Profile Plots
  • Defect: 647: Multivariable Navigator: Down arrow sometimes flips to another widget
  • Defect: 11455: Network Solver: Network Solver resolves every time when file is opened due to Hydrate Utility presence
  • Defect: 11362: Ops - Compressor/Expander: Polytropic Head Factor wrong in Compressor
  • Defect: 11007: Ops - Compressor/Expander: Case hits HASSERT on load
  • Defect: 10958: Ops - Compressor/Expander: Reciprocating Compressor missing Curve Data
  • Defect: 12126: Ops - Distillation: Column pumparound dT specs cause noisy solution
  • Defect: 11424: Ops - Distillation: Column doesn't let me set a draw spec
  • Defect: 11378: Ops - Distillation: Crash on save after deleting objects
  • Defect: 12367: Ops - Distillation: Flowrate spec shows wrong flowrate
  • Defect: 11635: Ops - Heat Xfr: Allow different flowsheets for shell/tube on the End point model
  • Defect: 10954: Ops - Heat Xfr: MSHE does not show individual sides
  • Defect: 9888: Ops - Heat Xfr: Add an enable ft factor checkbox to the HX
  • Defect: 11924: Ops - Meters: DR appears to have a bug!
  • Defect: 11890: Ops - Meters: 3rd meter in linked meter chain not getting notifications about changes in 1st meter
  • Defect: 11582: Ops - Meters: DEFAULT UNIT IN METER
  • Defect: 11313: Ops - Meters: Corrections - Design specification SG disappears when saving case to DB
  • Defect: 9929: Ops - Mixer/Tee/Valve: Valve with rating information doesn't solve with specified outlet pressure
  • Defect: 11454: Ops - Optimizer: Optimzer uses <empty> values (-32767) when calculating derivative from unsolved flowsheet
  • Defect: 12459: Ops - Optimizer: Multiple Active Cases in an auto-solve optimiser never stop solving
  • Defect: 11553: Ops - Pipe: Loading HYSYS XML sets up a pipe that always kicks on recall
  • Defect: 11549: Ops - Pipe: OLGA-S option in pipe not solving for single phase pipes
  • Defect: 11524: Ops - Pump: Case crashes on close in the Pump code
  • Defect: 11502: Ops - Pump: Pump Curves- operating point away from the pump curve
  • Defect: 11642: Ops - Reaction Set Based: Crash viewing reaction
  • Defect: 9618: Ops - Spreadsheet: Variable type sorting in the spreadsheet
  • Defect: 12340: Ops - Spreadsheet: Spreadsheet cell in ignored flowsheet continually stacking
  • Defect: 11511: Ops - Spreadsheet: Spreadsheet TOUNIT function should return error when unit string not recognised
  • Defect: 10253: Ops - Steam Generator and Burner: Burner doesn't solve when fuel flow is zero
  • Defect: 12472: Ops - Steam Generator and Burner: Case crashes when viewing Burner's Design Specs page
  • Defect: 11367: Ops - Synthesis Transition: Inconsistent use of Specific Gravity versus Liq Mass Density
  • Defect: 11872: Profiling: Very long pause after paste
  • Defect: 11923: PS Explorer: Unable to navigate between tabs to view details
  • Defect: 11676: PS Explorer: Opening case from Explorer causes PS to freeze if missing license
  • Defect: 11672: PS Explorer: Standalone Explorer UMT shortcuts do not respect preferred unit set
  • Defect: 11465: PS Explorer: Error message displayed when F1 function is clicked.
  • Defect: 11312: PS Explorer: Implement zoom function and wrapping for auto generated charts (similar to zoom on tables)
  • Defect: 11054: PS Explorer: Add the ability to turn off unwanted columns in the Data Sets tab
  • Defect: 10433: PS Explorer: Ability to export a page or report of charts with a single click
  • Defect: 10432: PS Explorer: Want ability to copy/paste data set (single-case) report matrices into other applications
  • Defect: 11270: Refinery Ops - AROM-SIM: Arom-Sim LHSV bug exist since V5
  • Defect: 10899: Refinery Ops - AROM-SIM: AROM v6 add missing component 1234THyNapht to Refinery-Aromatics
  • Defect: 11860: Refinery Ops - Blender: Copy paste of blender gives crash
  • Defect: 11257: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: DC quench loop sometimes fail, the solve with small change in quench target
  • Defect: 11226: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: Build 1446 - TC -1774 - DC-SIM -Reactor Model Basecase splitter product stream setup
  • Defect: 11175: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: Data Rec for DC-SIM cases includes Coker furnace object
  • Defect: 11172: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: DC-SIM Estimated Furnace Out Stream Doesn't show a logical connection to DC-SIM
  • Defect: 10988: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: DCSIM D86 cutpoints option makes LCGO/HCGO TBP cutpoint not changeable
  • Defect: 9980: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: Wizard configuration changes with furnace present
  • Defect: 12419: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: DCBaseCase Coker Furnace Exclude from New Calibrations setting broken
  • Defect: 12412: Refinery Ops - DC-SIM: Coker Array out of bounds
  • Defect: 11388: Refinery Ops - Distop: Distop "Calibrate to meet mass flows" flag impacts stripping steam handling in predict
  • Defect: 11332: Refinery Ops - Distop: Case crashes in the Optimizer
  • Defect: 11314: Refinery Ops - Distop: Case crashes on close
  • Defect: 12376: Refinery Ops - Distop: Test for cut point contiguity needs to be a bit more tolerant
  • Defect: 12118: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: FCC double converts cold properties from index to property for 2 LCO cases
  • Defect: 11931: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Calibration-time yields (FXDATA) not handling pure components in liquid recycles
  • Defect: 11920: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Net yields report does not subtract recycled pure components
  • Defect: 11853: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Internal Cut Distillation Factors not shown in workbook
  • Defect: 11765: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: PECAT heat capacity defaults to 0 in predict if none present in calibration
  • Defect: 11471: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Error 14 due to high Torch Oil flow to regen 2
  • Defect: 11444: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: FCC only reports inerts on the effluent stream
  • Defect: 11301: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: FCC produces bogus results with individual gas yields above 100 te/h
  • Defect: 11244: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Sulfur in coke not updated by FCC for data rec based on fluegas SOX input
  • Defect: 11209: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Remove 0 flow from recycled streams before Tee in wizard
  • Defect: 11188: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Incorrect MAT Activity reported when CCM option on (Option 2)
  • Defect: 11056: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Reactor Dense phase and Dilute phase heat losses switched in FXDATA
  • Defect: 11021: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Excel Import/Export for feed metals not functioning properly
  • Defect: 10983: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Bad naphtha Sulfur value passed into FXDATA
  • Defect: 10553: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Better description of Degree of Sulfur Processsing
  • Defect: 9754: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Lift Gas should be backed out properly when attached as recycle
  • Defect: 11209: Refinery Ops - FCC-SIM: Remove 0 flow from recycled streams before Tee in wizard
  • Defect: 11880: Refinery Ops - Feed Generation: Case crashes during synthesis
  • Defect: 11775: Refinery Ops - General: Property templates not applied consistently until reopening case
  • Defect: 10956: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: ULSD Property Template not persisting properly?
  • Defect: 12086: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: feed's FBP less than 530C caused validation result of total S to go missing
  • Defect: 11657: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: Missing user-specified quench gas rate option in exported workbook
  • Defect: 10960: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: Optional recycle gas rate does not have assay/flow rate defined
  • Defect: 12415: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: LHSV exponent tuning factor gets reset (ignoring user-input) during a calibration
  • Defect: 12360: Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: Issues with LHSV Exponent and other expert factors
  • Defect: - : Refinery Ops - Hxx-SIM: Added diagnostics to report ULSD template names in force at Diagnose=3
  • Defect: 11256: Refinery Ops – HXX-SIM: Put exponent on LHSV term to represent mass transfer limitations @ low LHSV
  • Defect: 11337: Refinery Ops – HXX-SIM: Poison feature does not work properly when there is liquid recycle
  • Defect: 11271: Refinery Ops - ISOM-SIM: ISOM-SIM LHSV bug exist since v5
  • Defect: 11683: Refinery Ops - REF-SIM: [Test Case 2833] CCR Sample Crash
  • Defect: 11651: Refinery Ops - REF-SIM: REF-SIM UMT mode doesn't calibrate to the validated targets
  • Defect: 11352: Refinery Ops - REF-SIM: Client - `Petro Sim 6.1_SP2 - issues with H2/Hc ratio in Reformer reactor model for EoR predictions
  • Defect: 6858: Refinery Ops - REF-SIM: Ability to clear out previous case auto-tune target
  • Defect: - : Refinery Ops - REF-SIM: Enhance REF-SIM Autotune Setup 1 page for clarity
  • Defect: 11983: Refinery Ops - VIS-family: Not able to input Temperature Targets anymore (Cross Over, Radiant Out, COT)
  • Defect: 11597: Refinery Ops - VIS-family: Fired Heater Mass Balance
  • Defect: 11705: Refinery Properties: Extended component property vectors are not accessible through automation
  • Defect: 11384: Refinery Properties: Case resolves upon opening due to duplicated properties
  • Defect: 10979: Refinery Properties: Refinery Assay Report stops calculating results after a calibration
  • Defect: 10219: Shell Extension: File explorer does not show Petro-SIM build and Version of ksc files (defect for Win10 only)
  • Defect: 11457: Solver: Solved case resolving on load
  • Defect: 12457: Solver: Supporting Multiple Optimisers per flowsheet has broken Multiple optimisers in multiple flowsheets
  • Defect: 9880: Store/Recall: HYSYS Air Cooler XML not recallling correctly
  • Defect: 12081: Store/Recall - Binary: 3.0 case crashes on load
  • Defect: 11641: Store/Recall - Binary: Case crashes on recall due to large Text log with Unicode characters
  • Defect: 7075: Store/Recall - Binary: Petro-SIM crashes when importing assay file
  • Defect: 12113: Store/Recall - Non-KBC: HYSYS Case crashing on load
  • Defect: 11930: Store/Recall - XML: HYSYS XML case crashing on load once stored out as ksc
  • Defect: 11419: Store/Recall - XML: Loading XML file fails
  • Defect: 10964: Store/Recall - XML: Case crashes when saving as XML.
  • Defect: 10962: Store/Recall - XML: xml case fails to solve on recall
  • Defect: 11307: Streams: Case crashes calculating stream properties
  • Defect: 10961: Streams: One Property Template button visibility not correctly set
  • Defect: 7433: Streams: Synthesis property selection view in the simulation environment does not support double click
  • Defect: 11808: Synthesis: Incorrect p-value synthesis result
  • Defect: 11804: Synthesis: Crude assay metals synthesis with 2 data points
  • Defect: 11523: Synthesis: Fortran out of bounds runtime error in kbclib dll
  • Defect: 11272: Synthesis: Octane fingerprints do not converge
  • Defect: 11104: Synthesis: Sulfur synthesis rejects cuts with low ABP leading to data mismatch
  • Defect: 12446: Synthesis: ULSD property template behavior odd
  • Defect: 12312: Synthesis: Case crashes on hard-wired synth comp limit
  • Defect: 11485: Synthesis: Sulfur synthesis results in 0 values for Hypo40-60
  • Defect: 11023: Synthesis: Using a Hypothetical component outside of the specified liquid density range to import an assay causes an error
  • Defect: 10957: Thermo - Database: Please add a synonym (Tetralin)
  • Defect: 11638: Thermo - Flash: Flash failure at feed stream
  • Defect: 11166: Thermo - Flash: IOFlash PV flash failing pretty badly
  • Defect: 11165: Thermo - Flash: PH / PT Flash inconsistency
  • Defect: 11100: Thermo - Multiflash: Multiflash MUCH slower than PR
  • Defect: 11935: Thermo - Property Package: Multiflash export to GCEOS package crashes
  • Defect: 11247: Thermo - Property Package: Twu MW estimation failing
  • Defect: 11246: Thermo - Property Package: Std Liq Volume flow cannot be used
  • Defect: 5030: Thermo - Property Package: 2 liquid phases wrongly detected
  • Defect: 792: Tools - Cut/Copy/Paste: Copy paste of a column can change the specs
  • Defect: 11835: Tools - Preferences: unit sets with custom units (HasUserConversions) doesn't always get filtered out for excel app reports
  • Defect: 11987: Translation: Translation malfunctions with Google language input tools
  • Defect: 10996: Usability - Ribbon Bar: Unhandled exception error associated with Migration --> SIM Workbook in Excel
  • Defect: 12085: Utilities - Data Rec: Data rec not making interior meters wait for reconciled values
  • Defect: 11908: Utilities - Data Rec: Data reconcilation around meter override values
  • Defect: 11834: Utilities - Data Rec: Improve robustness of Data rec calculation of Volume and Molar flow
  • Defect: 10863: Utilities - Data Rec: Improve detection of when auto-scale should be used in data rec
  • Defect: 10926: Utilities - Depressuring: Exact effect of head surface area and metal mass corrections is uncertain
  • Defect: 10925: Utilities - Depressuring: The time axis of the strip charts defaults to "date" format - depressuring
  • Defect: 10924: Utilities - Depressuring: The flash efficiencies should remain visible whatever heat loss model is chosen - depressuring
  • Defect: 10923: Utilities - Depressuring: The operating pressure default <<stream pressure>> doesn't work as expected - depressuring
  • Defect: 10922: Utilities - Depressuring: Back pressure entry limited to values between 1 kPa and relief valve set point - depressuring
  • Defect: 10921: Utilities - Depressuring: Metal Mass correction factors are often misinterpreted - Depressuring
  • Defect: 10920: Utilities - Depressuring: The vessel metal wall thickness defaults to 10mm - Depressuring
  • Defect: 10918: Utilities - Depressuring: PV term defaults to 0% - Depressuring
  • Defect: 10907: Utilities - Depressuring: Incomplete reset of information/options when switching heat loss mode - Depressuring
  • Defect: 10905: Utilities - Depressuring: Inconsistency on Reload of Miller Vessel Client Case
  • Defect: 11430: Utilities - Hx Monitor: Minor Spelling and format issues in HX Monitor
  • Defect: 11565: Utilities - LP Utility: Assay Adjuster - Liq Mass Density Delta column not accepting negative value
  • Defect: 11394: Utilities - LP Utility: V6.1 B1421 LPU issue
  • Defect: 11515: Utilities - Plot Utility: Plot utility uses FBP to plot properties rather than the boiling point of each component
  • Defect: 11932: Utilities - Sizing: Tray Sizing Utility not calculating pressure drop correctly
  • Defect: 11581: Workbooks: Using "As Set In Streams" Properties in the Reporting Workbook

Service Pack 2 - August 2016

New Features in sp2:

  • Assay Synthesis can now make use of Property Templates as alternative to standard spline techniques, allowing you to impose different profiles for different stream types
  • New tuning factor added to FCC-SIM for Residence Time Effect on Conversion
  • Number of improvements to Hydrotreating and Hydrocracking reactors
    • Now report the recycle gas rate on mass and molar basis
    • Single circuit reactors make recycle gas stream available
    • Can now specify gas quench rates in prediction with reactor solving for temperature
    • Reactors have override mechanism for out of balance net gas yields during calibration

Significant Defect Fixes in sp2

  • Defect 10995: FCC: Edit FCC wrapper to correctly put all other stream assays to correct location when a lift gas/C4 recycle present.
  • Defect 10983: Correct internal setup of naphtha cuts in the calibration data collection code inside the FCC wrapper in situations where the lift gas/c4 recycle feature is used. Was picking up whole effluent values instead of naphtha cut values for all properties except yield and gravity.
  • Defect 10463: FCC - Ca ring distribution incorrect on input side (PS definition vs FCC-SIM internal definition) affecting cycle oil and bottoms recycles connected as fresh feeds
  • Defect 10185 - Mass imbalance across Coker in Naphtha Modification Yes/Partial
  • Defect 10459: Make sure both modes through VGO Cracker generate extended component breakdown. Also correct space allocation to stop array out of bounds with furnaces with full set of tubes and the maximum 20 fouling increments

Other Defect Fixes in sp2

  • Defect 11237: Force FormatRows onto main Microsoft Excel thread when exporting variables from Petro-SIM to existing application workbook
  • Defect 11233: Crash on start when walking more than two license servers
  • Correct issues with Ft Factor and inconsistencies in heat exchanger
  • Defect 11201: force Microsoft Excel to process messages when screen updating is turned on
  • Defect 11131: reg. tool was incorrectly classifying some managed assemblies (VB.Net, C# non-AnyCPU) as native and not registering them properly
  • Defect 11007: Fix crash on load recalling compressor case with performance curves
  • FCC: Add error check for hydroprocesssing severity
  • Defect 11106: fixed up gas stream MW report in HXX results views
  • Defect 11104: Modify rules in synthesis to change the current lower bound of 36 C for determining if a property gets considered in some situations to 20 C.
  • Defect 11039: HXX - Fixed wrong initialization of internal flag for Gas System #2 circuit with OT gas configuration that causes false failed calibration.
  • HXX issues:
    • Fixed economics data: remove makeup cost output. Relink total cost
    • Fixed infinite loop bug with 2 drums HPS system. Defect 11093
    • Fixed wrong reactor total quench mass rate
    • Fixed wrong message link in input checking
    • Correct the names of Easy/Hard S in Validation results -> Other Key Indicators. Defect 11037
    • Fix the units of the Validation results -> Other Key Indicators to be more descriptive
    • Edit KB so that feed type only show up in XL for DHTR-SIM
    • fixed R1 easy sulfur was not reset after R1 total sulfur was reset due to model's unable to satisfy property balance around the HPS for R1R3 configuration. This could cause problem with R1 sulfur result.
  • Defect 9854: fix flaw in naphtha modification algorithm when adjusting wt% data, fully implementing the Prorate by TBP Weight option which drives things on weight basis
  • Defect 11038: HXX: set easy and hard S validation targets to zero in ULSD mode since E,M,H S are all lumped into total S, Very Difficult Sulfur is not applicable.
  • Defect 10976: FCC: Add FCC Profiles to Calibration Result and Predict Input to copy calculated FCC Profile for cold predict inputs.
  • Defect 10959 HXX: fix for recycle gas stream appearing disconnected when actually is connected
  • Defect 10960 HXX: flow rate not consistent with reported on results tab
  • Defect 10955 HXX: fixed up error #92 about makeup greater than Treat Gas
  • Defect 10876: choose new colour palette for Explorer report trends.
  • Defect 10878: fix Explorer issue with bulk run deleting intermediate data sets when run with late-in-day process end time and 1 day step size
  • Defect 10831: Maximus hydraulics plugin needs better time management.
  • Defect 10866: Case crashes selecting Steam User variable in Adjust.
  • Defect 10707 - HXX: fixed wrongly used ratio in liquid recycle composition convergence loop that causes reported negative net yield of C1 and negative solubility
  • Defect 10747: stream property buttons not working on a sorted matrix
  • Defect 10544: Controller report sheets are incomplete – MPC, Surge Controller and PID Controller
  • Defect 10756: Case crashes while validating Calibration
  • Defect 10767: User binary interaction coefficients around water are overwritten
  • Defect 10753: Crash on close
  • Defect 10741: Cannot send extension variables to a Microsoft Excel application workbook.
  • Defect 10665: FCC: Issue error/warning message for heat of cracking calibration factor regardless calibration is solved or not
  • Defect 10692: Distop column Stripper Delta T (Calc) is specified after accepting all data leading to a consistency error.
  • Defect 10705: license expiry message should not stop UMT runs
  • Defect 9890: Importing spreadsheet cell into KPI utility not working as expected
  • Defect 10667: Right click drag and drop does not work for multiple KPI variables from spreadsheets
  • Defect 10696: Rest KIJs still not completely clean.
  • Defect 7394: Add ability to suppress high dry hole pressure drop warning in tray section.
  • Defect 10520: Fix FCC Summary page in application workbook to correctly scroll through all feeds (including extraneous)
  • Defect 10658: Distop short-cut column sitting incorrectly at unsolved
  • Defect 2781: Add Furnace error message when no inlet tube P specified with NO Furnace Simulation option selected.
  • Explorer: Incident 1001781: add some null protection in meter report view if the report failed to get data for some reason
  • Defect 10654: Gas Turbine Datasheet report fix
  • Defect 10657: Petro-SIM window title bar is a tiny bit long
  • Defect 10661: improvement to account for H2O and NH3 pure comp values in user property synthesis
  • Defect 10610: fix issue with ECAT tag reader where it would confuse "P" with "PV" as a tag name in some catalyst vendor workbooks.
  • Defect 10653: add variable status to flowsheet report's "Include in Economics" so that units that don't actually support econ calculations can't be selected
  • Defect 10652: Stability problem in dynamics case upon recall
  • Defect 10651: Deleting selector block wreaks havoc
  • Defect 10612: Question regarding Scenarios in Petro-SIM.
  • Defect 10615: New Stream Location to be exactly where you drag and drop it.
  • Defect 10636: Initialization code also changes the stream pressure.
  • Defect 7455: Individual units in controller unit operations
  • Defect 10611: memory corruption in the column; add an error state to the column when feed properties are missing
  • Defect 10611: AMSIM uninitialized variables fix
  • Defect 10374: recall fixup of controller mode type
  • Defect 7164: undo a compressor curve delete incorrect
  • Defect 10599: overlap in pipe segment view
  • Defect 10601: auto connect doesn't work in sub-flowsheets
  • Defect 10492: Improve Maximus Plug-in.
  • Defect 9852: Synthesis envelope plot sometimes not displayed in DC calibration.
  • Defect 10560: HXX: fixed bogus file number that caused Fortran crash because it tried to write to protected directory.
  • Defect 10586: Client needs to add duplicate entries in the Process Data Tables.
  • Defect 10314: Auto-recovery case causing crash on Petro-SIM start.
  • Defect 10319: Update Pyrolysis furnace engine to avoid a license error
  • Defect 6976: Correct MW of C12A.
  • Defect 10492: Improve Maximus Plug-in
  • Defect 10523: Explorer - more pivot code improvements to cope with columns that get created with object instead of double DataType because the SQL results had empty values.
  • Defect 10550: fix crash when heat exchanger added to composite curve utility
  • Defect 10301: Pipe Segment in Dynamics does not have a holdup.
  • Defect 10462: Scenario that changes input to Extension only runs when going via Spreadsheet.
  • Defect 10537: Petro-SIM-Maximus integrated simulation occasionally does not solve.
  • Defect 10545: Case not recalling from XML correctly
  • Fix Heat Exchanger, ensuring that changes to stream flowrate during solve gets implemented every time
  • Defect 10523: add null pointer protection to fouling report
  • Defect 10152: add more forcible updates of calibration log to account for timing issues where DRU imbalance can get calculated too soon
  • Defect 10518: add ability to update UMT base case using meter report interface
  • Defect 13: Exporting compositions from a spreadsheet is now working.
  • Defect 7062: crash removing variable from LPU
  • Incident 1001131: Use standard stackpanel instead of virtualizingstackpanel because it fails to display auto-trended KPI charts on one client machine
  • Defect 10472: fix crash in optimizer after removing variables
  • HXX: improve warning message #16 and error message #73
  • REF: exposed the Total Catalyst Inventory input regardless of catalyst activity mode
  • HXX: added error message when the calibration times out
  • Explorer Defects: fix issue where virtualized tree-view nodes on case Raw Data tab were not always showing correct children plus tweak some views to cope better with large fonts.
  • HXX: updated wizard base case to accommodate the optional External Liquid Feed stream
  • Defect 10448: Stop variable navigator allowing adjustable connections to inappropriate variables
  • Incident 1001131: fix hard crash when Explorer launches a case in Petro-SIM and opens the Multi-case reports view when PS has never been manually connected to a DB at least once
  • Defect 10488: Corrected treatment of non-zero status codes in calibration mixing
  • Defect 10487: Nested children user knowledgebase tables not getting merged
  • Defect 10471: "Apply State" button does not work properly
  • Defect 10449: Petro-SIM is passing flowrates in Kg/s to a ModelVariable set to lb/s
  • Defect 10457: A sort of Ghost image is left on the PFD each time you select an object
  • Defect 3520: speed up published data sets view in Petro-SIM by scanning CollectionData table instead of ObjectData for timestamps
  • Defect 10426: only fire historian read event if any historian actually connected and have read something
  • Defect 10427: add delete button to Explorer monitoring app options tab
  • Defect 5722: Reports are better at detecting when running monikers don't refer to the same item at each offset when variables are added to a report, also add usability request to auto-filter reports when adding spreadsheet cells
  • Defect 10079: correlation manager now preferentially returns the base correlation names rather than awkwardly-named clones.
  • Defect 3845: DRU now sends out moniker changed notifications so that KPI utility doesn't display garbage when properties are hidden
  • Defect 10234: Add general MonikerChanged event for the multi-case reports to listen on
  • Defect 10083: improve handling of tray sizing utility with multi-case reporting. Plus fix issues around spreadsheet exports
  • Defect 10440 - ISOM: If there are no C4s in feed then set default cracking distribution of C5+ to C4s as n-butane which can then isomerize
  • Defect 10361: Network Solver utility changes specifications, refuses to solve
  • Defect 10453: Case crashes deleting Surge Controller
  • Defect 10000: attach mode on the column icon doesn't work for feeds.
  • Defect 10438: Repeated trace message coming from data rec.
  • Defect 10420: Notification of an attachment changed
  • Defect 10413: workflow giving units not found error
  • Defect 10303: The default valve linear rate is totally unrealistic
  • Client feedback: lab meters (intensive props only, no corrections, and dependent meters with extensive props) now automatically calculate MW during the DR estimate pass, so that dependent meters can use them for flow corrections.
  • Defect 10395: fix issue where report matrix was getting lost when popped out into new window
  • Defect 9842: Case crashes after clicking Generate Data in the LP Utility.
  • Defect 3675: Reporting workbook needs option to use properties currently in the stream.
  • Defect 10374: Copy and Paste loses Controller Mode in all Controllers.
  • Defect 9901: Can we read some stuff in from HYSYS preference files
  • REF: fixed improperly written write statement for error #12 that causes Fortran crash when it is encountered.
  • HXX: added warning to let user know that a bug fix that causes change in pressure drop calculation results has been implemented. Recommend to recalibrate
  • Defect 10370: Fix the mw estimation routine when using Default/Do Not Estimate methods
  • HXX Defect fixes:
    • Replaces results of combined feed's SG and 650+ Delta SG/API (that comes from the internal model) by that calculated from PS
    • Fixed ensure bottoms recycle tolerance basis is the same between calibration and predict
    • Fixed uninitialized variable that causes runtime error crash
    • Improved note message for missing liquid quench T
    • Fixed wiping out of liquid quench flow rates not working properly
    • Added the missing R3 B1 Heat Removal Option
    • Fix Liquid Quench Type 2 (External Liquid Feed to R2/R3) rate not making it to the internal reactor
    • Change visibility of the "Liquid Quench Basis Option" box so that it is shown in all Liquid Quench Type except for Gas Only
    • Ensure that only mass rates are passed to liquid quench inputs when Liquid Quench Type = 2 or 3
    • Fixed wrong unit for per reactor liquid quench rate report
  • REF: fixed reported COC Loop1 incorrectly assigned from sum of both Loop1 and Loop2.
  • Explorer: fix a number formatting issue in Explorer found in a DB case
  • Defect 10347: don't restore the assay updates view on recall if left open during save, causes confusion when there aren't actually any new updates
  • Defect 10337: fix timing issue around assay collaboration, where correlations marked themselves as clean and then didn't get dirty after the actual assay update
  • Defect 10312: fix issue where reports targeting running monikers got messed up with blank rows when exported to Microsoft Excel
  • Defect 10138: Give each monitoring app in Explorer its own DB context to work with to fix multi-threading deadlock issues
  • Defect 9933: Fix up two minor FCC wizard bugs (dangling streams when using Coke and Inerts option and missing H2S from Gas Product #1)
  • Defect 9923: Modify H on Coke Warning message
  • Defect 9927: Regen 2 Dilute Phase Temp missing EnableMoniker in knowledgebase
  • Defect 7167: Edit Naphtha Modification Option flyby for more accurate description
  • Defect 6875: Fix Wet Gas Inerts Rate to be correct variable type in knowledgebase
  • Defect 9427: Remove Coke Drums_Heat Loss Adjust Factor from default meter setup (predict only variable)
  • Defect 9696: C1 to C4 net yield result missing n-butane, trans-2-butene, and cis-2-butene
  • Defect 10126: Missing typo fix on Alumina (not Aluminia)
  • Defect 7546: Add all Catalyst Factors to show up properly from MVN
  • Defect 10262: Change default for lift gas fraction to Riser 2 from 0.5 to 0.0
  • Defect 9921: Improve flyby/dropdown options for Recycled Catalyst Option
  • Defect 9812: Add unique LP tags for FCC results that have the same label
  • Defect 10229: Change label for Nozzle Efficiency Calc. Option to refer to correct XKUP
  • Defect 10242: Fix Naphtha Recycle functionality to show up for feed Naphtha recycle
  • Defect 9917: Gas Pipe Unit Op causing crash reading HYSYS XML
  • Defect 9948: Xylene isomerization reactor has the wrong reaction
  • Defect 10119: "Serious Coding Errors" when using FCC Wizard
  • Defect 9840: Case crashes on close
  • Defect 5394: Transfer Signal output block being ignored
  • Defect 5395: Cannot connect OP values directly to feeder blocks
  • Defect 9482: Case crashes on save
  • Defect 9884: Spreadsheet / Distop / Datarec conspiring to not solve fully
  • Defect 9481: User Knowledgebase Reordering not working via Knowledgebase editor
  • Defect 6885: Copy PFD to bmp doesn't work for Background Colour set to Production Hue
  • Defect 9746: Change the PR BIP for Heptane-Hydrogen
  • Defect 7542: Sour PR instability
  • Defect 9405: The HCAMS import functionality doesn't work in 64-bit Petro-SIM
  • Defect 9767: Transfer function does not allow controller output to be selected as source
  • Defect 9732: Column monitor page, comments do not move when group active.
  • Defect 9741: Improve FCC handling of zero PONA values in calibration.
  • Defect 10345: Correct return from Oils to PFD from leaving Solver in Hold
  • Defect 10326: Add extra entry to help file search path for stand-alone Explorer

Service Pack 1 - March 2016

  • Defect 10239: Explorer material balance not generating data
  • Defect 10228: Water Dewpoint incorrect
  • Defect 10225: Workflow Manager gets stuck while running Petro-SIM cases
  • Defect 10222: Valve with fail open should have an option to reverse the control signal
  • Defect 10202: Unable to open Petro-SIM cases from PS Explorer
  • Defect 10200: Total Naphtha Yield error message incorrect
  • Defect 10181: Crash in Excel 2013 when changing chart type in app workbook to Monitor
  • Defect 10178: Loading calibration case from Excel wrongly create stream synthesis
  • Defect 10172: Hydraulic link stream pressure changes incorrectly
  • Defect 10143: Error Message not worded properly
  • Defect 10140: Unable to recall XML file due to ampersand in fluid package name
  • Defect 10125: DISTOP bogus error
  • Defect 10122: LP Utility problem in Petro-SIM 6.1 (template file)
  • Defect 10117: Meter report update-and-rerun does not work when taking over an in-progress data set
  • Defect 10116: Meter Report update-and-rerun gives duplicate data sets when working on approved data set
  • Defect 10114: Excel Unit of Volume Ratio does not show up properly
  • Defect 10103: Dynamics assistant generating inconsistencies by specifying compositions where it should not
  • Defect 10084: Issue when re-saving a particular generation of DB case
  • Defect 10071: Report shows cat circ/makeup rates in mass flow units instead of cat flow units
  • Defect 10070: Product Build only hang recalling a coker case
  • Defect 10069: Net Yields report not saved to database
  • Defect 10067: Net Yields and Standard Yields variables do not have consistent offsets
  • Defect 10052: PIPESYS doesn't work in the 64-bit version of Petro-SIM
  • Defect 10047: Error Code Formatting in Workbook causing Excel exception
  • Defect 10040: Bad calcby's in Aircooler cause crash on save
  • Defect 10037: Extend ability to open Petro-SIM cases so can also export to disk or open in new instance of Petro-SIM
  • Defect 10009: Rec error for streams not saved to database
  • Defect 10007: Interaction Parameters being changed on HYSYS XML recall
  • Defect 9998: Reset parameters button does more than that
  • Defect 9988: Hydroprocessing Severity (Delta SG) missing from MVN Case variables
  • Defect 9986: XML Case using Multiflash fluid package crashes on load
  • Defect 9961: New case built via FCC Wizard not able to calibrate due to DISTOP main frac
  • Defect 9959: Errors when loading DIPPR defined components
  • Defect 9950: Distop Column Refuses to solve after any spec change
  • Defect 9934: Heat exchangers solving using HTRI are very slow
  • Defect 9928: Crash reading calibration factors into a distop fractop
  • Defect 9914: Changing 'Unitless' format on script properties does not work
  • Defect 9910: Data rec does not write out all adjusted imbalances
  • Defect 9902: Unit Operations palettes do not display correctly in Dynamics mode
  • Defect 9898: LP export to Excel hangs - and gets out of index error
  • Defect 9882: Cannot write an assay synthesis system that generates an estimated MW
  • Defect 9868: Historian tag contain @ should be allowed
  • Defect 9856: Case constantly flickering "Solving" due to a spreadsheet cell import
  • Defect 9850: Expired license causes crash in Extension Icons
  • Defect 9849: Cumulative composition by weight does NOT plot properly
  • Defect 9813: Optimizer objective function incorrect in Excel Predict results
  • Defect 9781: Recall of FCC Case from v6 to v6.1 fails
  • Defect 9775: Synthesis fails to return proper value for Nitrogen content
  • Defect 9728: Petro-SIM does not open with this preference file
  • Defect 9704: Tray Sizing Utility not correctly warning about flooding
  • Defect 9676: Synthesis fails to ensure PIONA to be >=0
  • Defect 7545: FCC Key Indicators - Factors linked to wrong results
  • Defect 7470: MXASSAYCOMP in BP_StreamTransfer
  • Defect 7445: Cannot set DISTOP values on Efficiencies view from spreadsheet
  • Defect 7335: Bad Viscosity Fill-in code causing case to never converge
  • Defect 7284: Can we please read in the HeatModel dynamics XML stuff from HYSYS cases
  • Defect 7244: Incorrect error message when feed T90 point is below 650F
  • Defect 7230: Adding a lab analysis tool results in a Petro-SIM crash if no stream selected
  • Defect 7181: FCC Validation Highlighting only appears after clicking window
  • Defect 7050: Stream sourced Feeder Block issues
  • Defect 7028: PIPESIM hydraulic unit op not transferring black oil water content properly
  • Defect 6744: Petro SIM case does not open
  • Defect 6718: Item 18: Default value of tolerance disappears with delete key
  • Defect 6711: Solver not returning to Burner when the necessary input streams have been appropriately specified
  • Defect 6354: Naphtha estimation from simple HDS generating daft values
  • Defect 5646: Script Properties could be more user-friendly wrt VarType
  • Defect 5546: Lab Analysis tool provides very different response for hydrate prediction for SP1 build
  • Defect 5296: Strange cutpoints in calibration unless 90% value is given
  • Defect 4916: Components Compositions reported on Ref-SIM "Components Balance" not consistent with effluent stream's composition
  • Defect 4914: HDS Purge Gas Label disappears
  • Defect 3861: Matrix of check boxes has very slow interaction
  • Defect 2950: Feeder blocks with stream attachments appear to use the stream assays all the time
  • Defect 484: Prevent stream cutters from appearing until needed