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Creting a graphical process control panel

Dear Professor Hedengren and community:

I was wondering if Gekko (or Python as a bigger entity) has any way to convert simulations into a graphical control panel.

Say we have a Combined Cycle, and we want to calculate the net efficiency by altering the process parameters, such as pressure levels, stack temperature, air/fuel ratio at the combustor...

Please find attached a sketch on what I mean with this.

This would be especially interesting for non-experienced users, for them to grasp an insight on how these parameters affect the output, without diving into the formalities of coding / Thermodynamics.

Thanks in advance for your valuable time.

Best regards, Enrique Garcia - Spain

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Solution

  • One way to create this graphical panel is through IPython widgets if you are running in a Jupyter notebook. Here is an example with Python and APM although you could just as easily create this with Gekko.

    MHE Widget

    A built-in option for Gekko is the GUI interface that can be accessed with m.solve(GUI=True). There is more information on the GUI interface in the Gekko paper.