Development of a Systems Engineering Model for Chemical Separation Process

Development of a Systems Engineering Model for the Chemical Separation Process by Lijian Sun Dr. Yitung Chen, Examination Committee Chair Associate Professor of Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Nevada, Las Vegas This thesis is concerned with the efforts to develop a general-purpose systems engineering model software TRPSEMPro^ that can be used to improve productivity in the design process. Different features of TRPSEMPro will be presented in this thesis. First, Systems Engineering technology is presented, followed by the exposition of different numerical optimization technologies and DOE (Design of Experiments) study technologies. Second, the detailed software process, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA&D) for the TRPSEMPro is presented. All the design data models are expressed by using Unified Modeling Language (UML). AMUSESimulator is another software package which has been designed and implemented in order to serve as a bridge bet%̂ een AMUSE Macro, developed by ANL, and systems engineering model, TRPSEMPro. The design process for AMUSESimulator is elaborated in this thesis. ' TRPSEMPro Transmutation Research Program System Engineering Model Project