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News Release from: Aspen Technology
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 10 April 2002
Linde renews links with Hyprotech
The licensing agreement between Hyprotech and Linde Engineering is to be renewed under a long-term global simulation technology agreement.
The licensing agreement between Hyprotech and Linde Engineering is to be renewed under a long-term global simulation technology agreement Under this new agreement, Linde will use Hysys as its standard commercial simulation platform for the design of olefins, natural gas, syngas and hydrogen plants
The new agreement will also give Linde access to Hyprotech's complete portfolio of model-based simulation solutions.
During the past three years there has been a close collaboration between the two companies to fit Hysys into Linde's design workprocess.
Dr Aldo Belloni, Member of the Executive Board of the Linde Group, stated: "The relationship with Hyprotech in the area of open-architecture/model-centric-based simulation solutions plays a key role for Linde to achieve continuous productivity improvement in our process engineering design capability".
The open-architecture and model-centric capabilities of Hysys have been very important not only for Linde's process engineering department, but also to reduce its internal costs of development and maintenance.
Linde's Process Design IT Manager, Dr Gabriele Engl added: "The planned porting of our physical properties to Hyprotech's COMThermo common-to-all-products interface will further expand the value of this integration project by making our physical properties packages available in not only all Hyprotech products, but also other Cape-Open compliant products.
It will also provide a common interface for the use of both the physical property packages of Hyprotech and Linde with other OLE/COM compliant applications".
Dr Rolf eppenfeld, General Manager of Process Design of Linde, commented on the successful adoption of Hysys in the engineering department: "When we first looked at Hysys five years ago, we identified ways to reduce the man-hours in process design.
In the past three years, we have progressively replaced part of our in-house simulation technology with Hysys.
After only three years, we are delighted to see our vision becoming reality.
Our engineers now use Hysys proficiently for the basic design of our plants".
Wayne D Sim, CEO of Hyprotech said: "Hyprotech's commitment to the continued development of software solutions will help our customers in the plant engineering business become increasingly productive through the combined application of the most recent software architecture concepts with proven chemical engineering models.
Hyprotech is equally committed to expand on its unique model-centric solutions as a way for engineering companies to have additional methods to analyse the plant design which results in a reduced plant commissioning cycle".
Sim continued: "Linde have themselves been in the model-based simulation business for the past twenty years and it's very encouraging to be involved in such successful knowledge sharing partnerships.
We've learned a great deal from Linde in the past five years and look forward to another period of our successful relationship".
Hyprotech's model-centric approach also means less overall costs of development and ownership for the final plant operator due to the multiple plant-level applications our model support such as plant troubleshooting, operator training systems or online monitoring and optimisation provides.
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