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Approval date : 28/8/2002
PSE is committed to open systems, and this is reflected by the uniquely-open architecture of its software products. Senior PSE personnel have been instrumental in the CAPE-OPEN initiative from the beginning, and PSE vision is fully aligned with CAPE-OPEN’s aims and approach. gPROMS supports the CAPE-OPEN thermodynamics socket which allows CAPE-OPEN compliant physical properties packages such as Aspen Technology’s Properties Plus and Infochem’s Multiflash to be accessed from within gPROMS models.
Moreover, PSE’s gO:CAPE-OPEN (gPROMS Object for CAPE-OPEN) software automatically packages any gPROMS model as a CAPE-OPEN unit operation object. gO:CAPE-OPEN allows detailed models of complex reactors and separators to be embedded within CAPE-OPEN compliant flowsheeting tools, such as Aspen Technology’s Aspen Plus and Aspen Hysys packages, without the need for any code development. The models can be of arbitrary complexity, for example making use of gPROMS‘ powerful capabilities for describing and solving models involving properties distributed over 1, 2 or more spatial dimensions, and also distributions of other quantities such as particle size or molecular weight.
Professor Costas PANTELIDES has been the representative of Process Systems Enterprise Ltd in CO-LaN since PSE Ltd joined CO-LaN in 2001. As of January 1, 2021, Process Systems Enterprise Ltd, now a Siemens business, is an Associate Member of CO-LaN in Group A.
CAPE-OPEN related activities:
On November 16, 2006, within the 3rd CAPE-OPEN US Conference, a Topical Conference of the AIChE 2006 Annual Meeting, PSE presented on the use of CAPE-OPEN for remotely accessing networked models in a collaborative power industry application.
On April 25, 2006, at the Process Systems Enterprise 2006 Annual Meeting, Gregor FERNHOLZ from PSE demonstrated with Michel PONS, CO-LaN’s CTO, how a complex unit operation model developed in gPROMS can be run in Aspen Plus using CAPE-OPEN interoperability.
On March 9, 2006, Gregor FERNHOLZ demonstrated at the 3rd CAPE-OPEN European Conference, how a rigorous state-of-the-art model of a heat integrated distillation column (HiDiC) is implemented and simulated in gPROMS, exported into a CAPE-OPEN Unit plug and finally used in an Aspen Plus flowsheet. On the same day, Thomas WILLIAMS described how the gPROMS CAPE-OPEN Unit socket is applied in the Virtual Plant Demonstration Model project.
On February 17, 2005, Dr Ben KEEPING participated to the 2nd CAPE-OPEN European Conference.
On August 24, 2004, Dr Ben KEEPING participated to the 1st CAPE-OPEN US Conference and presented on the CAPE-OPEN Numerical interfaces that he developed within the CAPE-OPEN and Global CAPE-OPEN projects.
On February 13, 2004, within the 1st CAPE-OPEN European Conference, Prof. Costas PANTELIDES presented about go:CAPE-OPEN.
On October 2, 2001, Costas PANTELIDES presented on CAPE-OPEN at the Expert Group Meeting gathered by ICS-UNIDO in Trieste, Italy on the role of process simulation in providing sustainable processes.
On December 4, 2001, Process Systems Enterprise Ltd was elected to CO-LaN Board of Directors as representative of Group B of Members (software vendors).
On September 14, 2001, Prof. Costas PANTELIDES participated to the 1st CAPE-OPEN event held at EniTecnologie and presented on the CAPE-OPEN numerical interfaces.
