BILCO - 1 BILCO 2.0 for Windows In = Out......a simple starting point !

BILCO - 2 Data Reconciliation: BILCO BILCO offers an interactive, quick and accurate way of solving material balance problems in a vast number of applications:  complex flowsheet problems in mineral or food processing plants, chemical or petrochemical plants,  all types of balancing problems for chemical analysis (fitting up to 100% and estimating accuracy of analysis), mineralogy (fitting with chemistry), definition of sampling strategies, mixing and blending, etc. Raw Material WastesConcentrate

BILCO - 3 Material balance problem Algorithm Experimental data Set of coherent estimators Relative errors on experimental data Relative errors on estimators Constraints

BILCO - 4 FlowrateGrade 1Grade 2 Material description

BILCO - 5 Material description: notation Q pi :flowrate of phase p in stream i X pig :fraction by weight of particle size g of phase p in stream i T pigk :fraction of component k in the particle size class g of phase p in stream i P pik :fraction of component k of phase p in stream i

BILCO - 6 Mathematical representation Measured values: Estimators:(vector Y) Minimisation of the function:with or

BILCO - 7 Constraints Conservation laws:  Linear:  Quadratic:  Cubic: Data integrity

BILCO - 8 An integrated software User friendly interface Tables for data entry and display of results Comparison sheets between experimental and coherent values Printing options for flowsheets and tables Copy/Paste capabilities in spreadsheet and word processing software

BILCO - 9 Friendly interface

BILCO - 10 Fields of application Continuous processes (mineral, water, food, chemical, petro-chemical,...) Distribution networks Waste management Quality control Mineralogy (chemical-mineralogical combination) Help to sensor implementation  A key step before further data processing or/and decision making