For this example we are using a process "Chlorine" that has been previously simulated. To do this we are going to enter ESP Process as you would normally do.

The WORKING IN WHICH MODE screen should be somewhat familiar with you by now if you have successfully simulated a process. For this part we will select Summary

This will being up the PRINT UTILITY which is actually more than just a printing tool. The simplest output file is the LIS file. This is a text file (the extension means LISting) and is easily printed or E-mailed. The default name is displayed in the white line below. To accept this just select Generate Report

You will be given several choices. The Printer option will print the LIS file to the default printer associated with your computer. Please note, this function defaults to LPT1 and may not print. In practice we rarely print directly to the printer, reviewing the file with a text editor or word processor is preferred. The default output device is Disk and is noted my the ">>".

Press the <Enter> key

The default output file name will be the same as the process file name. If a file already exists with this name (e.g., chlorine.lis) it will be overwritten without warning.

Press the <Enter> key.

As you can see from the MS-Windows explorer below, the file "chlorine.lis" has been created. You can open this with a standard text editor.

Below is the title page from the "chlorine.lis" file. You can scroll down to see all the data. It is the same data you saw in the Process Analysis stream report screens. It is a bit difficult to work with this data so OLI has created a connector to your default spreadsheet program.

Close any open text files and return to the Summary screen similar to the one below.

Highlight the top row and then press the <Enter> key.

You will be give a choice of outputs. This time highlight Spreadsheet and press <Enter>

As before you will be asked to supply a name (if desired) for the output file. The file extension here will be CSV (comma, separated, variable). This is a file type recognized by most spreadsheet programs including Lotus, Excel and Open Office.

Press the <enter> key

Once again select Generate Report

This time we have a new option. We have the choice of displaying the name of the streams across the top (Columns Streams) and the species in the rows or the species across the top and the stream names in the rows (Columns Species). I prefer the former and it is the default).

Select Columns Streams

You can have up to 256 columns. We limit it to 100 to save file sizes. More than the entered number of columns will result in the spreadsheet "Wrapping." This means column 101 will appear under column 1. This can get confusing but it does save paper when printing.

I recommend that you use the default 100 columns. Press <enter> to continue.

You will notice that the program will open and then close several command prompt windows. This is normal. When done, the default spreadsheet will automatically launch. Below is an example of the output for Excel 2007.

There are other options here that we are not going to discuss but you can change the form of the species to display just the molecular representation or to collapse all phases into a single column. I recommend that you experiment. Please close the spreadsheet before trying a new option. The program will fail (but no data will be lost) if you attempt to open the same CSV file again while the file is still open.

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