Process Systems Enterprise Ltd5th Floor East 26-28 , Hammersmith Grove , United Kingdom

PSE is the world's leading supplier of Advanced Process Modelling technology and related model-based engineering and innovation services to the process industries.

We help our customers to create value in their organisations through the application of advanced process modelling using our gPROMS platform technology. This enables them to explore the process decision space rapidly, reduce uncertainty and make better, faster and safer design and operating decisions through deeper understanding of their processes

The result is accelerated innovation with faster time-to-market, improved process and product design, enhanced operations, more efficient and effective R&D and experimental programmes, and better-managed risk.

PSE's technology and services are transforming the way the process industries design and operate. We bring new ways to create and capture sustainable value with rapid returns on investment, by providing new ways to deal with complexity, uncertainty and risk, and to make breakthrough innovation.

We choose to work flexibly and collaboratively in long-term relationships with our customers wherever possible, to maximise the mutual benefit from the application of advanced process modelling.

What we provide

We provide both sofware technology – in the form of the gPROMS platform and family of products – and services aimed at model-based innovation and engineering.

PSE's technology and services are applied in virtually all the major process industry sectors, with particular focus on Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Food & Consumer Products, Power & CCS, Fuel Cells & Batteries and Wastewater. We also work with customers in Refining, Polymers & Plastics, Minerals & Mining and Pulp & Paper, as well as their technology suppliers such as automation and process design companies.

Where we are

Our global customer base of Fortune 500 companies is served by operations in the UK (head office), USA, Germany, Japan and Korea, and agencies in China, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and Thailand.

In addition PSE Academic provides low-cost academic licences for research and teaching to approximately 200 academic institutions around the world.

Our commitment

PSE is committed to furthering the boundaries of process modelling and to bringing the significant benefits of this technology to our customers through our thought leadership in key emerging areas and our continuous R&D innovation programme.

This commitment was recognised with the receipt of the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award for Engineering Innovation, the UK's highest award for engineering.

We are also committed to working in close partnership with our customers to create sustainable value wherever possible, and to helping organisations develop their internal modelling infrastructure.

Advanced Process Modelling

High-quality information for decision support

Advanced Process Modelling involves applying detailed, high-fidelity mathematical models of process equipment and phenomena, usually within an optimisation framework, to provide accurate predictive information for decision support in process innovation, design and operation.

Advanced process models are used to explore the process decision space to enable better, faster and safer decisions by reducing uncertainty. The approach differs significantly from that of traditional process simulation.

Integrated oil company Repsol applied advanced process modelling techniques to a new petrochemical process design that involved a complex multitubular catalytic reactor and an extensive separation system, connected by major recycles.

The combination of advanced process models and optimisation techniques resulted in an improvement in process economics of tens of millions of Euros over the original design, which was performed using traditional process simulation techniques.

There are many similar examples in all areas of the process industries. Typical application areas are those that involve complex physical and chemical phenomena, such as reaction engineering, crystallization or complex separation processes, as well as areas such asfuel cell component and system design.

These processes are often at the heart of the value chain, and thus where the most value can be realised.

What does Advanced Process Modelling involve?

Advanced process modelling is a combination of three elements:

mathematical models based on chemical engineering first-principles theory
experimental data – laboratory, pilot or operating plant – used to fit the empirical parameters in the model (or 'validate' the model)
advanced solution techniques – for example, optimisation – to exploit the rich information in the model and its predictive capability.