TU Delft and PSE to Collaborate on Crystallisation Modelling

Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), provider of the gPROMS Advanced
Process Modelling (APM) software, and Delft University of Technology
(DUT) department of Process & Energy have signed an agreement to
collaborate in the delivery of crystallisation modelling technology to
industry.

TU Delft is widely recognised as a leading centre for industrial
crystallisation research. The university founded the influential UNIAK
consortium and its successor CRYSCODE projects, co-sponsored by
international process companies such as DuPont, DSM, BP, BASF, BAYER,
Akzo Nobel Ajinomoto, Solvay and Purac Biochem. It has also been a
leading member of a number of European projects such as SINC-PRO,
which demonstrated the applicability of Model-based Predictive Control
(MPC) techniques to crystallisation processes.

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
high-accuracy predictive modelling of reaction, separation,
crystallisation and polymerisation processes are recognised as leaders
in their fields.

TUD and PSE will collaborate in the area of crystallisation
research in general and the application of process and product
modelling to crystallisation processes in particular, in order to
maintain and extend their respective leading positions in these areas.

PSE will provide TUD with gPROMS licences, as well as the gPROMS
Advanced Model Library for Solution Crystallisation (AML:SC) and
extended support. In return, TUD will provide PSE with early
information on published crystallisation research, including
knowledge, data and models, and feedback on the crystallisation
library. PSE will become a member of the CRYSCODE consortium and other
TUD initiatives in the area of crystallisation process and product
modelling.

Dr Herman Kramer, Associate Professor at TU Delft says
"crystallisation processes are very complex. In order to improve their
performance we need advanced modelling tools, to enable easy
development and validation of rigorous process models that allow
accurate predictions about how the system will behave on scale-up and
in response to changes in operation. It is also important to have a
single environment that allows easy incorporation of laboratory data
into models."

Prof. Costas Pantelides, Managing Director of PSE, says "This is a
major step, both in our aim to become the leading provider of
crystallisation modelling technology and services to industry, and in
our programme to forge alliances with leading universities around the
world in our domains of interest."

For more information please see the following

PSE & gPROMS: www.psenterprise.com/news/pressroom.html#pse

TU Delft: www.psenterprise.com/news/pressroom.html#tudelft