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24 June 2010

PSE releases gPROMS v3.3: making high-fidelity models available to process engineers

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gPROMS ModelBuilder v3.3

New opportunities for economic optimisation of process design and operations

LONDON, 24 June 2010 --- Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), providers of the world-leading gPROMS advanced process modelling (APM) software and related services, today released gPROMS version 3.3.

gPROMS v3.3 continues PSE's philosophy of advancing the frontiers of high-fidelity predictive process modelling while simultaneously making powerful tools more and more accessible to process engineers, in order to extend the ability of modelling to deliver value throughout process organisations.

V3.3. contains major productivity features for speeding up the obtaining of initial solutions for complex processes such as coupled reaction and distillation flowsheets, a graphical task editor for creating detailed operating procedures for batch and other dynamic processes, and model protection facilities to protect intellectual property embodied in models (IP) in order to allow them to be distributed securely within and outside organisations. In addition it contains many usability, productivity, numerical solution and other enhancements.

gPROMS is widely used by large process industry companies in the oil & gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, power generation, clean energy, food & beverage, consumer products, pharmaceutical and other process sectors. Key applications are the high-fidelity predictive modelling of products and processes to accelerate innovation, manage development risk and optimise process design and operation.

The comprehensive new model initialisation features make it possible to embody experts' initialisation strategies within models that can then be supplied as robust 'plug-in-and-run, converge first time' models to process engineers. This makes it much simpler to apply high-fidelity models - such as detailed predictive reactor models - in a process flowsheeting context, bringing new opportunities for economic optimisation of process design and operations.

The new graphical task editor brings easy drag-and-drop functionality and graphical visualisation to gPROMS's existing task language for defining operating procedures. This makes it much easier for process engineers to build and verify complex operating procedures for batch process optimisation and design of start-up policy.

There have been a number of usability enhancements at all levels, from new palette options that simplify creation of process flowsheets to new optimisation solvers, as well as general performance improvements and reduced memory consumption and an update to Multiflash physical properties version 3.9.

PSE Managing Director Costas Pantelides says "gPROMS v3.3 shows PSE's commitment to advancing process modelling technology while making it more and more accessible to engineering users. In particular the considerable R&D effort we have invested in model initialisation has resulted in a breakthough 'industry first' that has the potential to change the nature of process modelling."

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