Examples of applications
TP-Process covers a wide range of applications from metals, chemicals and energy systems to hydrogen, CCS, LNG, data centers and emerging technologies. We focus on applications where accurate thermodynamics, energy efficiency and process safety are critical.
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)
Carbon capture, transport and storage systems involve complex phase behavior across wide pressure and temperature ranges, often in the presence of a range of impurities. Practical challenges include hydrate formation, dry ice conditions, free water condensation, and chemically reactive impurities that lead to acid precipitation and corrosion.
TP-Process covers the whole CCS-chain. You can simulate most types of CO2 capture processes, purification systems, conditioning technologies as well as the injection. Purpose specific, accurate thermophysical models can be used for each application.
Many types of CO₂ capture processes, such as capture with amines, involve reactive multi-phase equilibria in electrolyte systems, requiring tailored thermo-physical models to accurately represent phase behavior, thermal effects, and composition changes.
The illustration shows a standard CO2 capture process with MEA simulated in TP-Process, using a thermodynamic description that reproduces the experimental data for MEA very accurately.
In addition to simulating these processes, the Global Safety Scan can be used to scan the whole process for safety critical phenomena such as hydrates, dry ice, ice, and acid precipitation. This makes it possible to iterate fast on new, innovative CCS technologies, while maintaining safety.
Hydrogen technology
Our software supports the design of many types of hydrogen technologies, including stream methane reforming, electrolysis and modeling of fuel cells. Compression and liquefaction of hydrogen for transport are also example cases in the library of TP-Process. We have developed tailored process units to improve the simulation accuracy of these processes, such as the catalyst-filled heat exchanger. Composite curves through the multistream heat exchangers and automatic warnings make it easy to avoid non-physical temperature crossings in the process design.
Impurities can strongly affect phase behavior and safety margins in hydrogen liquefaction systems. The Global Safety Scan checks the entire process for possible freeze-out of most types of solid impurities such as nitrogen, CO2, argon, neon, oxygen and water.
TP-Process facilitates an integrated analysis of hydrogen systems by combining accurate thermophysical modeling with energy efficiency and safety evaluations. This supports informed engineering decisions as well as exploration of innovative new designs related to compression, liquefaction, transport, and storage, where efficiency, safety, and operability are tightly coupled.
Waste heat recovery and metals
The thermophysical engine of TP-Process includes a wide range of solids, metals, gases, and liquids, enabling the simulation of complex industrial processes involving high temperatures, chemical reactions, and heat recovery.
The applications range from silicon and metal production to cement manufacturing, steam methane reforming, methanation, and other chemical conversion processes. These processes often offer significant opportunities for energy efficiency improvements through waste heat recovery, power generation, and integration with CO2 capture technologies.
Integrated exergy analysis helps to identify where useful energy is lost, to pinpoint opportunities to improve the energy efficiency of the process, and also to uncover non-physical modelling assumptions that violate the second law of thermodynamics. Discuss ways to improve the process with our AI, which also has access to all of the results. The AI solution makes it easy for non-experts to improve the energy efficiency and reduce the operational cost of the process.
The illustration shows a silicon production process, including solid and liquid products, combustion of off-gases, and waste heat recovery for electricity generation using a steam Rankine cycle.
Server parks, batteries and modern energy systems
ThermoPhys has developed dedicated process units for modelling the thermal management of data servers, batteries, solar cells, and other systems where heat generation and cooling are closely coupled.
TP-Process also makes it fast and straightforward to design heat pumps, refrigeration cycles, and waste heat recovery systems using refrigerants such as CO2, ammonia, propane, and mixed fluids.
Applications range from industrial heating and cooling to battery thermal management, geothermal energy, and heat recovery from data centers.
Our software enables system-level process simulation where thermal performance, safety constraints, and energy efficiency can be evaluated simultaneously. Integrated exergy analysis helps identify inefficiencies and opportunities for recovering and reusing waste heat. This supports reliable decision-making in complex systems where localized modelling errors can propagate and lead to significant system-level consequences.
The illustration shows part of a medium-scale AI data center cooling system, where individual server racks are connected to a common liquid cooling network.
LNG and gas processing
TP-Process supports the simulation of a broad range of processes, ranging from conventional gas processing, compression, and separation to complex LNG liquefaction plants with multiple refrigeration cycles and highly integrated heat exchanger networks. A wide range of process equipment, including compressors, turbines, separators, valves, and multistream heat exchangers, can be combined to model complete industrial processes.
Accurate thermophysical properties are particularly important for cryogenic applications, where small errors in phase equilibria, heat capacities, or fluid properties can significantly affect predicted process performance. TP-Process offers advanced equations of state, including multiparameter reference equations of state for mixtures, combined with integrated safety checks and exergy analysis to identify potential operating hazards and opportunities for improving energy efficiency.
Several LNG technologies have already been simulated and compared using TP-Process, including single and dual mixed-refrigerant processes, mixed-fluid cascades, and nitrogen expander cycles.
The illustration shows part of an advanced LNG liquefaction process, with multiple refrigeration streams, compressors, and multistream heat exchangers.
