Sud-Chemie AG Chooses gPROMS.

Leading Catalyst Manufacturer Standardises on PSE Technology & Services

LONDON -- SE-d-Chemie AG, one of the world's key manufactures and suppliers of catalysts and zeolites, has adopted Process Systems Enterprise's (PSE's) gPROMS Advanced Process Modelling (APM) software as its company-wide modelling platform. As well as the gPROMS software, SE-d-Chemie has licensed PSE's Advanced Model Library for Fixed-Bed Catalytic Reaction, and will make extensive use of PSE's expert process and reaction modelling services.

SE-d-Chemie will use high-accuracy Advanced Process Modelling of catalysts and reaction systems for fundamental understanding of catalytic performance from the level of laboratory reactors through pilot plants to commercial reactor systems. This will enhance the quality of its after-sales customer-care service and to help customers to optimise their reaction processes. Modelling will also be used to minimise the need for physical testing of new catalysts, to reduce time-to-market.

gPROMS is the world's leading APM environment, and is used throughout the chemical and other process industry sectors for optimisation of design and operation of process plants and to accelerate innovation. gPROMS' advanced model libraries for reaction, separation, crystallisation and polymerisation processes are recognised as leaders in their fields.

Mr Christoph BEnumler, SE-d-Chemie Director of Engineering Services EMEA, says "We are keen to go beyond the black-box approach and provide customers with a real insight into what is happening in their processes from day-to-day. In particular this will help us to rapidly troubleshoot when there are problems."

He says "We were looking for one single environment that is capable of modelling catalytic reaction systems to a high degree of predictive accuracy all the way from lab scale to complex industrial systems, to ensure consistency at all levels. Given their experience in reaction modelling and the extensive application of gPROMS to reaction systems, PSE was the obvious contender."

Mr BEnumler adds "one of the key factors in choosing gPROMS was the high quality of PSE's support, training and consultancy services. This has enabled us to create a rigorous kinetic model and validate it on a complex industrial reactor system with less than one month of effort."

PSE Sales Director Syed Shah, says "As the market becomes more and more competitive, the high-value information provided by Advanced Process Modelling will increasingly become a deciding factor for commercial success for both operating companies and their suppliers."

For information on SE-d-Chemie, see www.sud-chemie.com.

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