PSE stated that gPROMS is used by process industry companies in the pharmaceutical, oil and gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, power generation, clean energy, food & beverage, consumer products and other process sectors.
PSE said that gPROMS v3.3 advances the company’s frontiers of high-fidelity predictive process modelling philosophy, while simultaneously making tools accessible to process engineers, in order to extend the ability of modelling throughout process organisations.
PSE claimed that v3.3 contains 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 (IP) embodied in models in order to allow them to be distributed securely within and outside organisations.
Additionally, v3.3 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’ 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.
Costas Pantelides, managing director of PSE, said: “gPROMS v3.3 shows PSE’s commitment to advancing process modelling technology while making it accessible to engineering users.”