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Press release

25 May 2011

PSE calls for submissions for €5000 Model-Based Innovation prizes

Best use of gPROMS advanced process modelling in support of research

LONDON, 25 May 2011 --- Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), provider of the industry-leading gPROMS process modelling platform and model-based engineering services, today announced the opening for 2011 submissions for the prestigious PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize.

PSE awards annual prizes totalling €5000 – a winner's prize of €3000 and two runners-up prizes of €1000 each – for the best published papers in which gPROMS is used to generate research results in a novel area of application or technology.

PSE is a leader in the emerging field of Model-Based Innovation (MBI), in which high-fidelity mathematical models of processes and products are used to accelerate innovation and reduce technology risk. MBI helps to integrate R&D activities with engineering design, resulting in optimised process design and operation and reduced costs.

gPROMS is the world's leading modelling environment for such applications, and is widely used throughout the chemicals, energy, petrochemical, food and pharmaceuticals sectors. It is also used to support academic research in some 200 academic organisations around the world.

The 2010 prize was won by Ala Eldin Bouaswaig and Sebastian Engell from the Process Dynamics and Operations Group at the Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany, with a paper published in Chemical Engineering Science on mathematical techniques for modelling of complex phenomena such as particle growth in emulsion polymerisation.

Researchers using gPROMS in support of research published between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2011 are invited to submit a paper for the 2011 prize via the PSE website (www.psenterprise.com) by 15 July 2011. The prize is open to applicants from industry as well as academia.

Submissions will be judged by the panel of three leading academics in the field of Process Systems Engineering: Professor Stratos Pistikopoulos (Imperial College London), Professor Rafiqul Gani (Technical University of Denmark) and Professor Michael Georgiadis (University of Western Macedonia, Greece). Prizes will be awarded at the 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis.

Mark Matzopoulos, PSE COO, says "As a company closely involved in research and innovation throughout the process industries, we are keen to recognise and foster the efforts of others who are doing the same."

About the PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize

The annual PSE Model-Based Innovation Prize comprises a €3000 winner's and two €1000 runners-up prizes awarded to the authors of the best paper whose results are substantially based on results obtained using PSE's gPROMS advanced process modelling environment.

The MBI prize is open to researchers from industry, academia and research organisations. The judges favour research that focuses on novel areas of process and related technology or novel approaches to traditional process areas, as well as applications that have a positive impact on society and the environment. The prize is awarded at a major chemical engineering event each year.

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