LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), providers of the world-leading gPROMS advanced process modelling 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 initial solution of complex processes such as coupled reaction and distillation flowsheets, a graphical task editor for managing detailed operating procedures, and model protection facilities to protect intellectual property (IP) embodied in models so that they can be distributed securely within and outside organisations. In addition it contains many usability, productivity and numerical solution enhancements.

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

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 complex operating procedures for applications such as batch process optimisation and design of start-up. There have been a number of other usability enhancements at all levels, from new palette options that simplify process flowsheet creation to new optimisation solvers, as well as performance improvements.

PSE Managing Director Costas Pantelides says “gPROMS v3.3 shows PSE’s commitment to bringing advanced process modelling technology 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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