ProSim (Labège; www.prosim.net) and the French Petroleum Institute (IFP; Rueil-Malmaison, both France; www.ifp.fr) and announce the signature of a partnership agreement aimed at integrating the PC-SAFT thermodynamic model in ProSim software thermodynamic component.
IFP has recognized competencies in complex mixtures thermodynamics. It has developed and optimized a calculation code based on the SAFT (Statistical Associating Fluid Theory) equation of state, in its PC-SAFT (perturbed-chain SAFT) polar version. This version allows (among other things) a better handling of polar or oxygenated molecules interaction. ProSim will add this code in its thermophysical properties calculation server, Simulis Thermodynamics, which will make it available in all software that integrate the server and in particular in the process simulator ProSimPlus.
This partnership is in line with the innovative SME (small-to-medium enterprise) support policy that IFP has conducted for more than twenty years. Researchers of IFP will also be involved in this integration project.
“SAFT models allow a very good representation of systems which include components of different molecular size as well as association and solvation effects, such as hydrogen bonds or donor-acceptor bonds,” explains Olivier Baudouin, ProSim’s process manager. “However, such models are particularly difficult to implement in general software. This explains why they are not always easy to use in commercial simulators. The quality of IFP’s work in this field and the competencies of its experts will help us quickly implement this new model in our software allowing users to access the model in convenient environments.”
“This PC-SAFT model is the result of several years of research by IFP’s team in collaboration with Jean-Philippe Passarello and Pascal Tobaly of the LIMHP, CNRS research unit located on the Paris 13 University campus in Villetanneuse. We are happy to distribute it with ProSim, to provide the technical and scientific community with easy access to research results and also to contribute to the development of an innovative SME,”adds Jean-Charles de Hemptinne, researcher at IFP and assistant lecturer at the IFP School.