PPDS Client
The PPDS Client is the way that most users will interface with the PPDS Thermoserver. This client is installed as default when a user installs PPDS for Windows.
Screen shot from the PPDS Client showing the Text Output window and the Available Banks window.
It provides a simple way for users to interact with the PPDS Thermoserver to perform a variety of calculations including 1, 2 and 3 phase flashes for solid, liquid and vapour phases. Results are displayed in the Text Output window while requested graphs are displayed in their own dedicated window.
Screen shot from the PPDS Client showing the multiple streams and windows.
The default arrangement consists of a Text Output window where the calculation results are written to and the Available Banks / Components window which provides a mechanism for accessing the 1500+ components that are available through the supplied databanks.
Components can be dragged from the displayed databanks into default problem windows to define the streams for which the calculations will be performed. These tabbed windows then allow the user to define the additional conditions that specify their specific calculation.
Screen shot from the PPDS Client showing a typical Problem definition window.
Its multi-window design allows several streams to be active at the same time allowing multiple sets of conditions to be examined.
When the calculation is performed the results are written to the Text Output window. The contents of the Text Output window can then be printed, saved or copied into other applications. As the Text Output windows uses a grid system for holding its content, when pasting content from The Text Output window into grid destinations such as tables or spread sheets, the cell layout is preserved. This allows tables of results to be generated from within the PPDS Client and pasted directly into a spreadsheet for further analysis and processing.
Screen shot showing data from the PPDS Client pasted into a spreadsheet.