Oil Shale Process Model (OSP) code development manual

The Oil Shale Process (OSP) model has proven to be a useful tool for the analysis of the steady-state operation of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Hot-Recycled- Solids 4 tonne-per-day Pilot Retort (4TU-Pilot). This manual has been developed to guide a user through the development of source code modifications to the OSP code and to assist a user in implementing the code on a computer different than the HP workstations that have been used for its development. The OSP code has been developed for generalized chemical process simulation of the HRS (Hot-Recycled-Solid) oil shale retort. Several of the common unit operations encountered in industrial chemical process design are included in the OSP code, including packed and fluidized bed reactors, splitting and mixing operations, and a dilute flow lift-pipe. A set of chemical species and reactions related to oil shale processing are available for incorporation into a given simulation. This manual will guide an engineer/programmer through the code structure, logic and data structures or data files used by the OSP code. Two other manuals complete the documentation for the OSP code, the "Oil Shale Process Model (OSP) Theory Manual" and the "Oil Shale Process Model (OSP) User's Manual." These manuals should be referenced to find out the why and how of OSP.