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December 15, 2009 |
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ProSim has the pleasure to support a team in the Students Challenge, 2010 Edition. Two young students Anne-Sophie Grand (ENSIACET Toulouse) and Matthieu Grand (INSA Lyon), will drive an over 20 years old Renault 4L with ProSim colors from Toulouse / France to Ouarzazate / Morocco, a journey of around 1500 km. The start of the raid will be given on next December 27th.
This Student Challenge is a regularity based race, open to students from all countries taking place in six legs, partly on roads and partly on tracks. Speed is not that important, but a good management strategy combined with precise navigation is required to win the challenge. The winning team will be the one that will have accumulated the less penalty points during the raid.
The challenge is also meant to be eco-responsible. Each participant will purchase carbon offsets to balance the CO2 emissions during the raid. The purchase of “Carbon Neutral” stickers from the Actioncarbon.org web site will support the funding of sustainable development projects aiming at economizing the amount of CO2 emitted during the race. It is also to be noted that the organizing company Maienga provided Action Carbon with compensation for all CO2 emissions from their journeys for the Student Challenges 2008 and 2009 (plane, boat, cars).
Furthermore, the participants must complete a sustainable development project that falls under the United Nations Environmental Programme’s “Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign”. The project consists in planting young date palm trees and ensuring the necessary irrigation by creating a water catchment basin and providing a solar pump. Under local project management, personnel will be paid to water the young trees during the first year, in order for the roots to grow, reach ground water and live in complete autonomy. In a few years, the trees will provide food and comfort to the local village.
"The decision to support a team was not long to make" explains Gilles Hameury, Marketing Manager of ProSim. "We find ourselves very much in line with the concept and the ecological and humanitarian spirit in which the challenge is organized".
[ More information on the Students Challenge web site ]
About ProSim
ProSim is an independent company, founded in 1989, with its headquarters in Labège (Toulouse – France). The company provides state of the art simulation and optimization software that allows process industries to increase their efficiency and their return on investment. ProSim solutions are designed for applications in the chemical, the refining, the gas treatment and the specialties chemical industries as well as in the pharmaceutical, the food processing and the energy industries. Its activities also comprise engineering process consulting and custom software development.
ProSim solutions are used to improve process design, increase plant efficiency and reduce their impact on environment. Thanks to long term partnerships with major research centres and to substantial investment in R&D, ProSim continuously develops innovative software and has become a recognised player on the international market.
The success of the company comes from the efficiency and the robustness of the solutions and of the calculation packages it proposes, but also from the quality of the services it provides.
The expertise and the know-how of ProSim personnel covers vast domains, including thermodynamics, physico-chemical phenomenon modelling, process simulation, energy integration, optimization techniques, numerical methods, software architecture, and GUI development.
ProSim is active in 63 countries around the world, with over 690 customers among which major actors like Axens, Air Liquide, Akzo Nobel, Alfa Laval, Arkema, Braskem, Ciba, Cognis, EDF, Linde, Pharmacia, Praxair, Schering, Sintef, Sanofi-Synthelabo, Technip, Total Petrochemicals, Uhde or Wacker.
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