摘要：Process simulations allow both the optimization of existing processes and the design of new systems, leading to the efficient exploration of different scenarios and at low cost. There are in the market many simulation softwares, but they are characterized by a high cost and lack of flexibility, i.e. the capacity to modify the source code in order to add new models and modify the existing ones. This work presents the development of a flexible steady state simulator for mineral comminution circuits. It is an open source simulator built using Matlab environment, it includes an user-friendly GUI and algorithms to solve numerically the mathematical equations derived from the flowsheet structure. In order to illustrate its capabilities a simple example is presented.
关键词：KeywordsSteady State simulations,comminution circuitsopen source software
