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Document what the Modular Property Framework considers to be an "Equation of State"

Open dallan-keylogic opened this issue 6 months ago • 0 comments
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A repeated source of confusion for users starting out with IDAES is what the modular property framework considers to be an "equation of state". See, for example, #1613 . They think that because they're not using a classic EoS like cubic, PC-SAFT, etc., they don't need to provide anything for a phase. However, the modular property framework uses "equation of state" more broadly, in a way that includes an Ideal equation of state for gas, liquid, and solid phases as well as activity models as equations of state.

~~Presently, this information doesn't seem to be present in the documentation. Therefore, it should be added.~~

It was under the "Phases" tab. Nevertheless, since the examples are "Ideal" (gas?) and "Cubic", a new user may be confused.

Additionally, the modular properties should verify that an equation of state is provided in the config dictionary while building either the parameter or state block.

dallan-keylogic avatar Apr 24 '25 13:04 dallan-keylogic