Passing Data from
One Screen to Another Screen Back to Main Tutorial
If you go to Preferences\ Data Passing Options,
you should see three options: 1) Ask before
The following steps
will explain the functionality of the three options above. GCAP allows you to
bring appropriate data from one screen to another screen. For example, you are
doing flash calculation on screen 5A and you want to know the phase envelope of
the gas, you can open screen 4A and GCAP CAN pass that gas composition to
screen 4A for you, depending on the option that you select. You do not have to retype the gas
compositions in the screen 4A. Assuming that here is what you have on screen
5A:
Now you are ready to
do the flash calculation. Click the “Run” button. Please notice that the information you type
in will not be remembered by GCAP until you click the “Run” button. You should
see the following after clicking the “Run” button.
Option 1: (Ask before
Let’s go to Preferences\ Data
Passing Options and select
option 1. Go to the Volume 1
menu, click Chapter 4. Phase Diagram,
and select A. Multicomponent Phase
Envelop. GCAP recognizes that
you have existing data that could be used in this screen 4A. Because you select option 1 (Ask before Pass
Data), it asks you to update the data or not.
If you click Yes,
the gas compositions you typed into screen 5A is now displayed in screen 4A
If you click No,
all the gas compositions remain zero.
Option 2: (Do NOT Ask and Pass Data) If selected, GCAP passes the data to screen
4A without asking your permission.
Option 3: (Do NOT Ask and Do