Equipment factory usage

The EquipmentFactory provides a single entry-point for instantiating process equipment that can be automatically wired into a ProcessSystem. The factory supports every value listed in EquipmentEnum, including the energy storage and production classes (WindTurbine, BatteryStorage, and SolarPanel).

Basic creation

ProcessEquipmentInterface pump = EquipmentFactory.createEquipment("pump1", EquipmentEnum.Pump);
ProcessEquipmentInterface stream = EquipmentFactory.createEquipment("feed", "stream");

The string based overload is tolerant of the common aliases that existed historically (for example valve and separator_3phase). Unknown identifiers now throw an exception instead of silently creating the wrong equipment.

Equipment with mandatory collaborators

Some equipment types cannot be instantiated without additional collaborators. The factory now prevents creation of partially initialised objects and exposes dedicated helpers instead:

StreamInterface motive = new Stream("motive");
StreamInterface suction = new Stream("suction");
Ejector ejector = EquipmentFactory.createEjector("ej-1", motive, suction);

SystemInterface reservoirFluid = new SystemSrkEos(273.15, 100.0);
ReservoirCVDsim cvd = EquipmentFactory.createReservoirCVDsim("cvd", reservoirFluid);

Attempting to create these units through the generic method now results in an informative exception message that points to the correct helper method.