One connected project
Design basis, components, block flow diagrams, process flow diagrams and piping and instrumentation diagrams live in one project file, so a change in one place is visible everywhere.
Features
What Black Owl includes
Capabilities of the current early-access platform, grouped by how engineering work progresses.
01 / Project foundation
The shared record every step draws on.
Components, thermodynamics, utilities and revisions live in one project, so later steps start from the same data.
Components
Maintain the components for the project, with molecular weights used by the balance.
Thermodynamics settings
Choose the property package and mixing rule for the project. Package suitability depends on your system; you remain responsible for that choice.
Utilities
Define utilities such as cooling water with supply and return temperatures and stream codes.
Revision and freshness tracking
Project structure includes revision control and calculation freshness records, so results can be tied to the inputs they came from.
02 / Diagrams and balance
Draw the process and balance it.
Block and process flow diagrams and the material balance work from the same streams and equipment.
Block flow diagrams
Draw process blocks such as mixers, reactors and splitters, and connect them with numbered streams that carry phase, flow, temperature and pressure.
Process flow diagrams
Place pumps, vessels, heat exchangers, reactors, columns, mixers, condensers and splitters, and route the lines between them.
Material balance
Run the material balance from the block flow diagram and see mass flows on each stream, with a status showing whether the results are current.
03 / Engineering development
Carry the project into deliverables.
Piping classes, equipment drawings, layout and the wider module bar build on everything defined before.
Piping classes
Piping class tables with rating, material and schedule by size. Reference defaults are labelled as such and need project review.
Equipment drawings
Generate equipment drawing sheets, such as a packed column, from the equipment data.
Plant layout
Set out a plot with floors and racks to plan how the plant sits on site.
A full module bar
The workspace also has modules for energy, equipment sizing, PDS, equipment sketches, commissioning, a stream data editor, a PFD line list, a run report, DEXPI and isometrics.
BLACK OWL EARLY ACCESS
See these capabilities on your process
Request early access for a walkthrough from design basis to P&ID.