Typical gPROMS users

A modeling tool across the organisation

In many cases, gPROMS is used across the organisation as a tool for capturing and transferring knowledge

gPROMS is applied by major process organisations throughout the world to to provide high-quality information for decision support in product and process innovation, design and operation.

There are also approximately 200 academic institutions worldwide using gPROMS for research and teaching, ensuring that gPROMS is constantly being applied to the most challenging applications in new areas of research.

Typical application areas are those that involve complex physical and chemical phenomena, such as reaction engineering, crystallisation and complex separation processes.

Who uses gPROMS and why?

gPROMS is used to generate high-quality predictive information for decision support in all aspects of design and operation, across all sectors of the process industries.

gPROMS technologies can be applied in many different ways to address generic process challenges. There are many more examples of specific applications of APM in industry in the examples summary and in the application areas section.

Within any large process organisation, there is a range of users:

Expert modellers, writing models to capture corporate knowledge in usable form and generate results.

Expert modellers use gPROMS ModelBuilder for all aspects of modelling: constructing models, validating them against laboratory, pilot or operating data, executing models to obtain results or packaging them for use by other users.

Process engineers, exploring flowsheet alternatives to optimise equipment and control design. Process engineers use library models within the gPROMS ModelBuilder flowsheeting environment.

Operations, purchasing and non-modelling users, who required model-based decision support systems delivered via Excel or web browser. These users typically use models created by expert modellers or process engineers packaged within gO:Run.

Reaction engineers, creating and deploying high-accuracy predictive models of reaction processes for detailed desgn and operational analysis

Chemists and scientists, analysing experimental data and fitting a mechanistic model to observed data, or designing optimal experiments.

Control engineers, using gPROMS models within MATLAB® and Simulink® via gO:MATLAB and gO:Simulink respectively to design control schemes using high-fidelity non-linear models.

CFD specialists, incorporating detailed representation of complex reacting systems into CFD models. Typically they will use a gPROMS reaction, crystallisation or fuel cell model – sometimes transparently – via one of the gPROMS–CFD interfaces.

ModelBuilder as a corporate tool

As well as being an environment for individual users, ModelBuilder is also a means for organisations to manage their modelling and related R&D activities.

For example, ModebBuilder contains:

tools for creating and publishing libraries of custom models – in effect, vehicles for transferring corporate knowledge across the organisation
comprehensive QA facilities, which ensure that the all-critical numbers used in design and optimisation of operations come from auditable sources
tools for designing experiments, which can be used to direct the activities of R&D departments in providing the most accurate data at the lowest cost
and many more.

ModelBuilder's design recognises that modelling is increasingly at the heart of process design and operation.

Thus ModelBuilder contains a number of facilities for exporting gPROMS models to other common engineering software environments, where they can execute as embedded gPROMS Objects (see the gPROMS Product Family), facilitating knowledge transfer across the organisation.