PSE’s gPROMS® advanced process modelling software and services for digital design and intelligent digital operation are transforming the way the chemical process industries design and operate plants.
gPROMS Process’s combination of high-fidelity reactor and separation models coupled with advanced global system analysis (GSA) and industry-leading optimization techniques make it possible to dramatically accelerate next-generation process design and identify millions of dollars from ‘already-optimized’ processes.
Our laboratory-to-operating-plant approach reduces time-to-market and risk for new process development, and helps minimise capital and operating cost.
The downstream value chain
PSE’s capabilities cover the entire downstream process application space with a single steady-state and dynamic process modelling environment, gPROMS Process.
Olefins
gPROMS Process’s Olefins model library allows easy high-fidelity offline modelling of ethylene plants with different furnace types for whole-plant optimization and what-if studies. The gPROMS Olefins suite of Operational Excellence Solutions (OES) implements high-fidelity models online for coke monitoring, real-time yield reporting, run length prediction and furnace section optimization.
Intermediates & Derivatives
PSE has world-leading technology for optimizing reactor design and operation in the context of whole-plant optimization. In addition, high-fidelity models can be implemented online as part of the gPROMS Reactor OES to monitor KPIs (including catalyst deactivation), provide soft-sensed values and optimize operation.
Polymers
We provide industry-leading capabilities for optimizing LPDE production, based on high-fidelity population balance models – coupled with CFD models where necessary – to provide accurate molecular weight distribution (MWD).
R&D laboratory facilities
PSE’s high-fidelity modelling approach integrates multi-scale first-principles models of physics and chemistry with experimental data for real-world validation. We can supply cost-effective laboratory experimentation capabilities, including design and execution of experiments.
Many other specific applications
PSE tools provide advanced process modelling capabilities for many key Chemicals & Petrochemicals process operations. Some examples are:
Advanced catalytic reactor design
Advanced reaction modelling technology makes it possible to design detailed reactors and include these in whole-plant flowsheet optimizations.
This means that you can optimize process designs taking all relevant interactions into account.
State-of-the-art separation models
gPROMS Process provides state-of-the-art capabilities for steady-state and dynamic equilibrium distillation, rate based separation, pressure-swing adsorption, membrane separation and hybrid separation.
Solution crystallization
PSE provides unique capabilities for design, scale-up and operational optimization of batch and continuous crystallization processes, including recipe optimization.
Solids process modelling
PSE’s unique capabilities for batch, continuous and semi-batch solids process operations use high-fidelity rigorous models to optimize design and operations.
Cyclic separation processes
The power of the gPROMS environment allows easy solution of complex complex separation processes such as pressure-swing adsorption.
Water treatment
Our extensive libraries of high-fidelity biological and physico-chemical wastewater treatment process models allow optimization of design and operations as well as troubleshooting of treatment plants.
gPROMS Operational Excellence Solutions
We provide a range of Digital Applications solutions in support of Operational Excellence for chemicals & petrochemicals processes.
These combine plant data with high-fidelity models, leveraging your investment in models to create value every day.
>$1m
13%
Hydrocarbon Processing
Improve engineering via whole-plant design optimization [Repsol, Spain]
