IDAES-PSE 2.5.0 Release

The Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems (IDAES) Integrated Platform is a versatile computational environment offering extensive process systems engineering (PSE) capabilities for optimizing the design and operation of complex, interacting technologies and systems. IDAES enables users to efficiently search vast, complex design spaces to discover the lowest cost, most environmentally sustainable solutions while supporting the full process modeling lifecycle, from conceptual design to dynamic optimization and control. The extensible, open platform empowers users to create models of novel processes and rapidly develop custom analyses, workflows, and end-user applications.

IDAES-PSE 2.5.0 Release Highlights

Upcoming Changes

IDAES will be switching to the new Pyomo solver interface in the next release. Whilst this will hopefully be a smooth transition for most users, there are a few important changes to be aware of.
The new solver interface uses a different version of the IPOPT writer (“ipopt_v2”) and thus any custom configuration options you might have set for IPOPT will not carry over and will need to be reset.
By default, the new Pyomo linear presolver will be activated with ipopt_v2. Whilst are working to identify any bugs in the presolver, it is possible that some edge cases will remain.
IDAES will begin deploying a new set of scaling tools and APIs over the next few releases that make use of the new solver writers.
The old scaling tools and APIs will remain for backward compatibility but will begin to be deprecated.

New Models, Tools and Features

New diagnostics check for near-parallel variables and constraints.
New diagnostics tools for identifying causes of infeasibility in models.
New example for creating a custom model of a liquid-liquid extractor unit operation.

Bug Fixes

Fixed bug in Gibbs reactor that caused it to appear to have additional spurious degrees of freedom.
Fixed bug in the Modular Property Framework that would cause errors when trying to use phase-based material balances with phase equilibria.
Fixed bug in Modular Properties Framework that caused errors when initializing models with non-vapor-liquid phase equilibria.

Testing and Robustness

Deployed the IDAES Diagnostics Toolbox to confirm that there are no structural or numerical issues in the core model libraries.
Additional robustness tests for core model, and some associated improvements in the converge tester class.
Fixed a number of issues that were causing unexpected warnings to be emitted during testing.

Deprecations and Removals

Removed examples for RIPE tool which has not been supported for a number of releases.