Description: This is a reactor network simulation for the production of OME3-5 from renewable feedstocks (CO2, H2) using the aqueous formaldehyde route. This simulation was performed for the preliminary process evaluation required for report 2 for Design 4501W at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. The program evaluates each process stream before and after calculation using material balance models, and adjusts process streams for subsequent iterations using the finite-difference gradient. This process is repeated until the convergence criterion is reached.

How to run: To run this program, install the required dependencies if needed and run the process configuration driver file using the console command 'python3 NetworkDriver.py'. This will initialize the reactor network and begin the iterative solution method.

Contributors: Henry Dikeman Patrick Gibbons-Peterson Sandhya Appiah Shivam Yadav

Program Dependencies: Python: 3.8.5<= Numpy: 1.20.1<= Sympy: 1.7.1<= Scipy: 1.6.1<=

note: it is likely that backwards compatability with older package versions exists, but these are the versions known to work with the current version of the simulation