Mass Balancing

[elphick]

Mass Balancing across a network (flowsheet) is functionality that is currently under development within this package.
Those that have mass balanced a mineral processing plant routinely in a production setting will know that it is almost inevitably a very iterative procedure:

• Load data
• Load default SD's (weights) defining the degree of movement/restraint a measurement can move during balancing
• Balance
• Review results
• Adjust SD's
• Balance
• Adjust ... and so on until we're happy.

Considering the above, it is likely that the mass balance functionality in this package would likely only be useful for simple on-off balancing problems.

I'm wondering about the value of creating a separate package (that leverages this one) to provide a User Interface (UI), such as Dash, to provide the interactive layer needed to make such a process more productive and less clunky. The plotly plots we already have would be a leg-up since they could be re-used.

Thoughts?