PSE gPROMS ModelBuilder 4.2.0

gPROMS ModelBuilder is an environment for expert modellers to build, validate and execute steady-state and dynamic process models and deploy these across the organisation.

It provides all the facilities of the gPROMS advanced process modelling platform for creating and managing custom models, from single units such as novel reactors to entire corporate process simulation and optimisation environments.

1. Build
Powerful custom modelling capabilities allow you to create first-principles models of virtually any type of process:
- Easy custom modelling with no need to program numerical solution methods
- Lumped and distributed parameter (spatial, size distribution, etc.) modelling
- Powerful discontinuity handling
- Steady-state and dynamic models within the same environment
- TASK language for operating policy
- Multiple physical property options

2. Validate
You can then fit empirical model parameters to experimental (laboratory, pilot or operating) data to provide highly predictive models:
- Advanced parameter estimation capabilities
- Estimate multiple parameters from multiple steady-state and dynamic experiments
- Full statistical analysis of parameter uncertainty to support risk analysis and R&D investment decisions
- Enhance predictive capability of first principles model

3. Execute
You can perform steady-state and dynamic simulation and optimisation to explore the decision space rapidly and effectively in order to:
- Optimise unit design to minimise CAPEX, maximise operability, etc.
- Optimise operation to minimise energy, feedstock use, etc.
- Optimise operating policy to determine optimal start-up or grade change procedures
- Perform whole plant optimisation to improve plant economics
- Perform scale-up of complex units, linking to CFD for mixing effects where necessary.

4. Deploy
You can gain further return on investment by deploying models across the organisation:
- As on-demand operations or purchasing decision support tools executing within a web browser
- In online execution as part of the plant automation system, for monitoring, optimisation and look-ahead simulation
- For design support, executing within MS Excel, web browsers, VBA or other custom interfaces
- Within other engineering software such as Aspen Technology's Aspen Plus®, Schneider Electric SimSci's PRO/II®, ANSYS FLUENT® or The Mathworks' MATLAB®.


Features & advantages:
Because of its modelling and solution power and its process industry focus, the gPROMS platform brings many advantages. These are just a few:
- Unlike more general mathematical modelling environments, ModelBuilder is aimed specifically at process modelling with its units-and-streams approach, flowsheet editor and multiple physical property options.

- World-leading custom modelling capabilities that allow you to easily construct your own custom models to virtually any level of complexity, capturing corporate knowledge in a way that can be used to create value and competitive advantage.

- Powerful optimisation capabilities that allow you to determine optimal answers directly rather than via trial-and-error simulation, saving time and reducing time-to-market for new processes or enhancements.

- Library management facilities that allow you to create easily-maintainable libraries of models and provide them to users across the organisation.

- Steady-state and dynamic simulation capabilities within the same framework, allowing you to streamline workflows, investigate important transient effects easily and optimise transient process performance.

- World-leading numerical solution techniques that provide answers rapidly and robustly and are fast enough to be used in large-scale optimisation.

- Model export facilities to package models for execution in other engineering software environments via the gPROMS Objects.

- A sophisticated flowsheeting environment that allows you to utilise your custom models within a process flowsheet along with gPROMS gML and AML library models.