F.A.Q

A license is a file which provides the information required to authorize or deny the right to use a protected software. Each license is generated for a specific software and a specific computer. Consequently licenses can only be installed on the computer they were created for and there can be only one valid license per software on the same computer.

The license also refers to a company, a department or a user.

The license system integrated in most ProSim software is called ProSim License Manager. It allows different types of licenses:

- "Trial" license: temporary license which is installed automatically with the software, and which can be installed only once on the same computer;

- "Local" license (or standalone): license which allows the utilization of the software on a unique computer.

- "Network" license (or client/server) (LAN or WAN): a license which can be shared among several users through a network. The software is installed on an unlimited number of computers and the license is installed on the server. The license manages a pre-defined number of simultaneous accesses.

The Network license can be "Borrowable". The borrowing function creates a license (called "Borrowed") for a specific user, on a specific computer. This allows the software to be used without being connected to the server. Borrowing a license reduces the number of possible simultaneous accesses on the network license by one unit. 

When first installing a ProSim application, a Trial license is automatically installed which is valid for 10 days, from installation date.

To obtain the license that corresponds to the duration of your acquisition agreement, you need to request the license from ProSim. This procedure is described in the ProSim License Manager user's guide.

ProSimPlus is a steady state simulator, that will represent continuous processes.
It is provided with extensive libraries of unit operations, component properties databases and thermodynamic models and therefore can be used in many different industries such as chemical, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, oil, gas treatment, refining, specialty chemical.
It is also possible to add user defined unit operations and thermodynamic models to deal with specific applications and extend the application field. ProSimPlus can model complex systems (large flowsheet, with numerous recycling or hignly non ideal mixtures.  

During calculation, different colors show you if the unit operation that is under calculation has converged or not. At the end of calculation, if the simulation has not converged, the signs remain on the module(s) that failed. A red cross means that the convergence has failed completely, an orange signs means that it has converged but a warning is attached to it. You are invited to immediately open the module configuration window and in the Result tab, you will find the explanation. This explanation is also found in the Simulation Report, generated at the end of each simulation.

Flexibility is a major strength of ProSimPlus. The user has several options to use private modules in the software. The choice will mostly depend on the complexity of the module and on your programming competencies.

The "Windows Script" provides a coding environment to create additional calculation operations (calls to external data, unit operations...). The module is coded in VBScript (a simplified version of Visual Basic).

The user can also create more complex modules in the form of external dll's, in Fortran or other languages (please consult). The UTI module of ProSimPlus allows calls to this dll and integrates it into the process flowsheet just like any other standard module.

Thirdly, ProSimPlus is one of the few simulators that implements the "Unit" interfaces of the CAPE-OPEN standard. Thus, in the flowsheet, compliant unit operations from other parties (HTRI, gProms for example), can be used without any programming. Should you have an in-house module, ProSim can encapsulate it in the required CAPE-OPEN interfaces and make it usable in ProSimPlus.

Last but not least, you can always ask ProSim's development team to integrate your calculation methods and models in the sofwtare. This type of project can produce an exclusive version of ProSimPlus (that you would be the only one to use) or an enrichment of the standard version of the software. 

Yes. Evaluation versions are fully functional and limited to 10 days of use (from the installation date). No downloadable version of ProSimPlus is available on the ProSim public web site so you will need to get in touch with the Sales Department (sales @ prosim.net) who will organize this for you.

If you are a customer with a valid maintenance (MUTS services) agreement on another ProSim software, you can download ProSimPlus from the secured ProSim Support web site and test it for 10 days.

By a reactional scheme (stoichiometric coefficients), a kinetic model and its parameters. If you do not know the kinetic parameter values, BatchReactor can calculate these parameters from experimental data (concentration or calorimetric data).

Several levels of detail are possible. You choose how much detail to enter based on the needed accuracy and time available.  In the most detailed configuration, you can describe the vessel shape, type of agitator, heating/cooling system (partial pipes, jacket, external heat exchangers...) and the service fluid.

BatchReactor includes several pre-coded kinetic models for liquid, liquid-vapor and liquid-solid reactions. Biochemical reactions are also taken into account. It is also possible to define a user defined kinetic model. The connection between the user model and the software is done through a Dynamic Link Library.

Yes. Evaluation versions are fully functional and limited to 10 days of use (from the installation date). No downloadable version of BatchReactor is available on the ProSim public web site so you will need to get in touch with the Sales Department (sales@prosim.net) who will organize this for you.

If you are a customer with a valid maintenance (MUTS services) agreement on another ProSim software, you can download BatchReactor from the secured ProSim Support web site and test it for 10 days.

No. BatchColumn simulates one distillation column. If two columns are connected, you can simulate one then consider the composition of the connected stream and enter it as a feed or initial load in your other distillation column.

Yes. After you have selected your packing in the BatchColumn library, you indicate the column diameter and packing height. Then BatchColumn calculates hold-ups, pressure drops and flooding factor.

Yes. In this case you specify a purity to be maintained in the distillate. BatchColumn calculates the reflux policy to reach this specification.

Yes. Evaluation versions are fully functional and limited to 10 days of use (from the installation date). No downloadable version of BatchColumn is available on the ProSim public web site so you will need to get in touch with the Sales Department who will organize this for you.

If you are a customer with a valid maintenance (MUTS services) agreement on another ProSim software, you can download BatchColumn from the secured ProSim Support web site and test it for 10 days.

Both. It is the daily tool to modify operating conditions as a function of energy needs. Ariane indicates what are the conditions that correspond to the lowest cost.

No. You can also connect equipment without any limitations regarding the equipment number.

Yes. The cogeneration contract can be total (you sell all the produced electricity) or partial. In this case, Ariane allows you to measure the economic impact of the cogeneration.

We are using an SQP method. The strong point of Ariane is its efficient adaptation of this method to optimize complex networks in the shortest time.

Yes, this is possible, but not recommended given the specificities of the application field of the software. We will make sure however that you get a complete understanding of the package, with demonstration meetings, web conferences etc. Please get in touch with the Sales Department (sales @ prosim.net) who will define with you the best way to understand the software features and their applications in your specific activity.

Of course, you can. Whether you are a university or an industrial, you also can register and take part in this event. ProSim has a very interesting academic/university program. You can start leaning about it here: http://www.prosim.net/en/page-academic-program-2.php and then come to the seminar on June 4^th to ask us more questions.

This is not necessary. This seminar is mostly informative and ProSim experts will show you power point presentations and software demos.

ProSim will be hosting this seminar in a meeting room in a Hotel in Frankfurt, but we are not organizing travel arrangements for the attendants. The agenda has been thought, so you can arrive in the morning and leave Frankfurt in the evening. The seminar will be taking place in the heart of Frankfurt in a very convenient place.