ThermoPhys Process™ (TP-Process)
TP-Process is a cloud-based, AI-native, steady-state process simulator for building, solving and analyzing industrial processes. Advanced thermodynamics, safety analysis and energy-efficiency analysis are integrated directly into the workflow to speed up engineering work. It has the most accurate thermodynamics available, and proprietary numerical algorithms lead to super robust and lightning fast solution of the process.
Why we built TP-Process
We built TP-Process to address these four challenges:
- Very slow adoption of better models. Advances in thermodynamics can take decades to become available in commercial process simulators. This limits accuracy, applicability and innovation speed.
- Computational speed and robustness. Complex simulations can take minutes to hours to converge, and sometimes the process never solves. This limits the number of alternatives engineers can investigate.
- Manual workflows. Engineers spend considerable time building, configuring and troubleshooting process models, even when much of this information is already in existing P&IDs, spreadsheets and reports.
- Fragmented engineering analysis. Important considerations such as process safety, phase stability and exergy analysis usually require additional tools and separate calculations.
TP-Process is being developed to address these challenges from the ground up, combining advanced thermodynamics, proprietary numerical algorithms and integrated AI in a modern process simulation platform.
Next generation capabilities
TP-Process is a next-generation process simulation platform with key differentiating capabilities:
- State of the art thermodynamics: An extensive thermophysical engine with highly accurate models, reducing uncertainty, unnecessary design margins, and costs.
- Built around AI: Set up complete processes from text, Excel files, P&IDs, presentations, or other available material. The AI also helps you to analyze and improve your processes. Build in minutes instead of days.
- Fast and robust numerical solvers: Proprietary numerical algorithms deliver exceptionally fast and robust simulations. If something doesn’t solve today, we can deploy a fix directly in the cloud without waiting for a new software release.
- Global Safety Scan: Automatically identifies potential safety hazards throughout the entire process, in milliseconds, using dedicated, purpose-built models.
- Integrated exergy analysis: Combined with AI, exergy analysis makes it easier for non-experts to develop innovative, energy-efficient processes while reducing engineering effort and operating costs (OPEX).
Explore these features in more detail on our Capabilities page
Covers a wide range of applications
TP-Process covers a wide range of applications, including:
- Carbon capture and storage (CCS): The entire CCS chain, including various CO2 capture technologies, conditioning, purification, transport, and injection.
- Hydrogen technologies: Hydrogen production through electrolysis or steam reforming, fuel cells, and hydrogen liquefaction.
- Metal production: Waste heat recovery and CO2 capture from high-temperature industrial processes.
- Energy and cooling systems: Data centers (as illustrated), battery systems, heat pumps, and modern energy systems.
- LNG and gas processing: Improving energy efficiency while maintaining safe operation.
- Other applications: Geothermal power generation, power cycles, dehydration, and many more.
Explore these applications and additional examples on our Application Area page