What is ModelBuilder and how does it work?
ModelBuilder is a process flowsheeting tool and an advanced custom modelling environment within the same environment.
World-leading Advanced Process Modelling technology and services
gPROMS ModelBuilder
The world's leading Advanced Process Modelling environment
gPROMS ModelBuilder® is the custom modelling and flowsheeting environment at the heart of the gPROMS platform products.
ModelBuilder combines industry-leading custom modelling capabilities with a process flowsheeting environment, to provide the process industries' most powerful advanced process modelling tool.
What is it used for?
ModelBuilder is used to build, validate, execute and deploy steady-state and dynamic process models of any complexity.
Its powerful process modelling language is used to create high-fidelity predictive models of chemical processes, which can be validated against experimental or plant data using built-in advanced parameter estimation techniques.
Once you have a validated model, you can use ModelBuilder's steady-state and dynamic simulation and industry-leading optimisation capabilities to generate high-accuracy predictive information for decision support in product and process innovation, design and operation.
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Why is ModelBuilder different?
Process simulation has been around for many decades. Why is ModelBuilder now transforming the way the process industries design and operate?
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Model Libraries
ModelBuilder's steady-state and dynamic model libraries can be augmented by the Advanced Model Libraries for reaction and separation, leaders in their fields
Who uses ModelBuilder?
ModelBuilder is designed for a range of modelling users within the typical process organisation. Some typical groups are:
- expert custom modellers creating models of complex processes or units – for example, a fluidised-bed reactor – for use in process or detailed equipment design
- process engineers combining custom models with library models – for example, distillation columns – from the ModelBuilder process model libraries
- reaction engineers, creating and deploying high-accuracy predictive models of reaction processes for detailed reactor design, operational analysis and troubleshooting, and catalyst screening and ranking
- R&D personnel analysing experimental data and fitting model parameters using ModelBuilder's advanced parameter estimation capabilities
- chemists and scientists analysing experimental data and fitting a mechanistic model to observed data, or designing optimal experiments.
- control engineers using gPROMS dynamic models to design and test control schemes using high-fidelity non-linear models, or to generate information for use in control design within MATLAB®
- process optimisation experts exploring the decision space to determine optimal plant economics.
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Across the process lifecycle
ModelBuilder provides a single environment from laboratory R&D and conceptual design through FEED and detailed engineering to operating plant.
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Deploying models within other engineering software
You can bring the benefits of advanced process models to groups across your organisation by deploying gPROMS models within a range of software environments.
Application
ModelBuilder can be applied across the process lifecycle all the way from process or product development in the laboratory to support of online plant operations, by users from many different disciplines.
It is used across the process industries, from oil & gas and refining, through chemicals, petrochemicals & polymer, to food & beverage and pharmaceutical manufacture.
It also provides support at all stages of the model lifecycle: model construction, validation, execution, deployment and subsequent maintenance. This ensures that models can easily be maintained and extended to provide continual return on investment.
