Biosteam

* A `<Flowsheet>.view()` method for creating dynamic flowsheets that are always up to date with units and their connections. They work as a simple widgets that refresh automatically.
* A `LLECentrifuge` unit operation modeled by rigorous liquid-liquid equilibrium (solved by minimizing the total Gibb's free energy with a differential evolution solver).
* A `ShortcutColumn` unit operation that uses the Fenske-Underwood-Gililland algorithm for multicomponent distillation.
* A `<Flowsheet>.create_system()` method to create systems directly from the flowsheet. The method figures out how all units are connected and creates the internal recycle systems itself. It also incorporates all process specifications and facilities too. This method is used to create the sugarcane and the lipidcane biorefineries now.
* A `ProcessSpecification` object that allows you to add in process specifications as part of the flowsheet, so it shows up in diagrams and system objects created by the flowsheet. `MassBalance` objects also appear in the flowsheet, just like process specifications.
* A `Duplicator` unit operation for copying streams for the evaluation of alternative downstream processes.

BioSTEAM is a fast and flexible package for the design, simulation, and techno-economic analysis of biorefineries under uncertainty. BioSTEAM's framework is built to streamline and automate early-stage technology evaluations and to enable rigorous sensitivity and uncertainty analyses. Through its open-source and community-lead platform, BioSTEAM aims to foster communication and transparency within the biorefinery research community for an integrated effort to expedite the evaluation of candidate biofuels and bioproducts.

Last release for the v1 series .

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Thermosteam is a standalone thermodynamic engine capable of estimating mixture properties, solving thermodynamic phase equilibria, and modeling stoichiometric reactions. Thermosteam builds upon chemicals (https://github.com/CalebBell/chemicals), the chemical properties component of the Chemical Engineering Design Library, with a robust and flexible framework that facilitates the creation of property packages. The Biorefinery Simulation and Techno-Economic Analysis Modules (BioSTEAM; https://biosteam.readthedocs.io/en/latest) is dependent on thermosteam for the simulation of unit operations.

Thermosteam is a standalone thermodynamic engine capable of creating property packages for the rigorous estimation of temperature and pressure dependent mixture properties and thermodynamic equilibrium. Thermosteam presents a robust and flexible framework that facilitates the creation of property packages which may feed into BioSTEAM, the Biorefinery Simulation and Techno-Economic Analysis Modules, for the simulation of unit operations and production processes.