Equipment Input (.rpe file)
The
.rpe file is where equipment instances are defined.
Each piece of equipment is specified on a single line (no RETURN or LINEFEED
allowed) in the following format:
<equipment name>, <description>, <equipment type>, <unit id>, [<attribute value pairs>]
- <equipment name> is the identifier for this equipment. It must be a character string with at least one non-numeric character in it.
- <description> [OPTIONAL] is any description that will be displayed in various dialogs. It may not contain a comma.
- <equipment
type> is one of the following equipment descriptor types (although
other user-defined equipment types may be defined):
- Air Cooler
- Air Cooler Cell
- Boiler
- Centrifugal Compressor
- Circular Platform
- Column
- Control Valve
- Cooling Tower
- Cylinder
- Electrical Substation
- Gas Turbine Generator
- Heat Recovery Steam Generator
- Horizontal Drum
- Horizontal Pump
- Horizontal Reboiler
- Horizontal Side Side Pump
- Horizontal Top Top Pump
- Horizontal Vessel
- Ladder
- Motor Control
- Packaged Equipment
- Plain Box
- Reactor
- Reboiler
- Reciprocating Compressor
- Shell and Tube Exchanger
- Steam Turbine Generator
- Storage Tank
- Storage Tank by Capacity
- Sump
- Switchgear
- Transformer
- Vertical Box Heater
- Vertical Drum
- Vertical Heater
- Vertical In-Line Pump
- Vertical Pump
- Vertical Vessel
- <user-defined equipment classes>
- <unit id> [OPTIONAL] is the name or number for the unit to which this piece of equipment belongs.
- <attribute value pairs> [OPTIONAL] are used to import equipment attributes normally written to the script file via the equipment process file. Value pairs are space delimited and are formatted: <attribute name> <attribute value>.