ProMax
Features and workflows.
The library of ProMax tools, blocks and methods, from Automated Data Exchange to equipment rating.
- Acid Gas Removal
ProMax® is the leading software in industry for modeling acid gas removal systems. Building on almost 50 years of simulation experience, ProMax offers the highest degree of accuracy, flexibility, robustness, and ease-of-use available today. ProMax contains all of the prerequisite…
- Alkylation
ProMax’s new Alkylation block enables the user to simulate complete HF and Sulfuric Acid Alkylation units in a single simulation! Let our staff help you construct and solve these complex models, allowing you to get to the real problem solving you need.
- AP-42 Permitting and Emissions Inventory
ProMax is well-known for its ability to accurately predict hydrocarbon absorption and emissions from oil and gas facilities. ProMax comes with a variety of tools to facilitate reporting emissions, combining process simulation and environmental reporting in a single software packa…
- AutoKinetic Reactors
ProMax AutoKinetic reactors provide a suite of rigorous reactor models to simulate petroleum refining processes. Among other benefits, these models can accurately predict reactor operations to achieve optimized operating targets and provide fundamental details on reactor performa…
- Blue Hydrogen
ProMax 6.0 is a great choice for simulating the various Blue Hydrogen production options which often include Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS).
- Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS)
Carbon capture and sequestration involves capturing CO 2 emissions generated from industrial processes, allowing operators to reduce GHG emissions while continuing to offer reliable, cost-effective energy across the globe.
- Caustic Systems
Leveraging four decades of electrolytic modeling experience, ProMax® provides extremely accurate and easy-to-use capabilities for fast, robust caustic system modeling. Almost any configuration or system can be modeled, including acid gas removal from ethylene washes, mercaptans r…
- Characterizing Crude Oils
To model a process containing a crude oil or condensate, the properties of the oil must be known or at least estimated. Determining the exact composition of crude oils and heavy condensates is not feasible because of the enormous number of components included in these mixtures. I…
- Columns
The detailed column solutions provided by ProMax for both ideal-stage and mass and heat transfer columns can provide you with the relevant information for sizing and rating your column designs. ProMax is capable of predicting parameters for many types of columns, including Liquid…
- Control Valves
ProMax includes a wide variety of Control Valve information, to help you size this equipment, or estimate the pressure drop that results from their utilization. Choosing an appropriate type is crucial for accurate control valve calculation: our library includes over 450 types of…
- Crude Preheat Networks
With accurate thermodynamics, heat exchanger rating capabilities, and calculators for fine-tuning and optimization, ProMax has the ability to model heat exchanger networks and improve energy integration.
- Data Exchange
The ProMax Data Exchange feature allows for fast, simple communication between ProMax® and a variety of external sources and databases.
- Data Exchange and Optimization Tool
The ProMax Data Exchange feature allows for fast, simple communication between ProMax® and a variety of external sources and databases.
- Delayed Coking
ProMax®’s new Delayed Coking block enables the user to simulate conversion of residual fuel oils to more valuable gas oils plus coke. Let our staff help you construct and solve these complex models, allowing you to get to the real problem solving you need.
- Detailed Design
ProMax detailed column solutions provides you with column performance, pressure drop and flooding estimation, optimization options, and more for both packed and trayed towers. Analyses can be performed for ideal-stage and mass and heat transfer columns, with or without reactions.
- Distillation
ProMax has the ability to model a variety of fractionation columns in refineries, including crude fractionators (atmospheric and vacuum), saturated gas plants, coker fractionators, and many others. ProMax capabilities allow users to
- Event-Based Emission Estimations
ProMax can predict emissions from different venting scenarios that do not occur continuously. The Blowdown Emissions template allows users to estimate VOCs, HAPs, methane, and CO 2 emitted during a variety of depressurization events. Through a simple Excel input interface, users…
- Flare and Vent Systems
ProMax allows the user to design and troubleshoot vent systems, regardless of whether they are high or low pressure. From PSV to the flare tip, flare systems can be easily built and analyzed in ProMax.
- Flow Meters
ProMax supports several calculations related to Differential Pressure Flow Meters to assist you in estimating the pressure effects of these meters in your units. The properties of the flow meter can be calculated by specifying the Meter Type, along with the Pipe Diameter and Orif…
- Gathering and Compression
The ProMax® GIS Tool™ allows for fast, easy modeling of single or multiphase gathering systems. Whether designing a new system or tying in new feeds to an existing system, the GIS Tool gives the user the ability to make better decisions faster than ever before.
- Glycol Dehydration & Hydrate Prediction/Inhibition
ProMax is renowned as the leading resource for predicting the performance of both glycol dehydration and hydrate suppression systems. ProMax can perform dehydration simulations using the common glycols Ethylene Glycol (EG), Diethylene Glycol (DEG), and Triethylene Glycol (TEG). D…
- Glycol Dehydrator Emissions
Dehydration with Triethylene Glycol (TEG) is the most common method to meet natural gas water content requirements. Aromatic compounds such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) are slightly soluble in TEG, and as a result is absorbed in the glycol contactor. Addi…
- Green Hydrogen
With ProMax 6.0, BR&E introduces new process blocks for simulating water electrolysis to produce Green Hydrogen:
- Heat Exchangers
The Heat Exchanger Rating package included in ProMax can help you design new processes, track down bottlenecks, find process inefficiencies, and decide whether to repurpose existing equipment. Simulation results and user-supplied information can be incorporated into design calcul…
- Hydrocarbon Accounting (Allocation)
When reservoir fluids from various wells are comingled in a production facility, determining the original source of the hydrocarbons is extremely important. Operators need to know whether the fluids from a given well are sold at fuel value or as more valuable liquid products. Acc…
- Hydrocarbon Recovery and Fractionation
ProMax is a comprehensive simulation resource capable of modeling an entire processing facility and associated support systems in a single simulations. Model virtually and NGL, LNG, LPG recovery or fractionation process, including nitrogen rejection units (NRU) and Helium recover…
- Methane Emissions
Calculate and report accurate methane emissions. ProMax utilizes robust and trusted calculations to help you comply with new methane regulations.
- Pipelines and Gathering Systems
Pipelines and pipeline networks for above ground, buried, and subsea conditions may be simulated, including known or calculated heat losses to the environment.
- Piping and Networks
The ProMax Pipeline block is a flexible and powerful tool for estimating the flow characteristics and pressure change associated with a single pipeline, a gathering system, a well bore, or even a flare network. Our rigorous pipeline block can help you determine the necessary comp…
- Production Facilities
ProMax® is a comprehensive simulation resource capable of modeling oil and gas systems from the production tubing to delivery, all in a single simulation!
- ProMax GIS Tool
The GIS Tool allows for the creation of pipeline network systems directly from geographic information system (GIS) data. This tool will accept .kmz, .kml, .shp, or .xyz files, display the data visually on a geographic plot, and allow the user to manipulate the data to replicate t…
- ProMax OOOOa Vent Assessment Tool
Part of operating production facilities in an environmentally responsible manner is ensuring that closed vent systems are properly sized. With undersized systems unable to move flash gases to the control device, operators risk over pressuring tanks and uncontrolled emissions from…
- ProMax Optimization Tool
New to ProMax 6.0, the Optimization Tool couples ProMax’s predictive power with advanced optimization algorithms. This feature automates the process of finding not just a solution but the best solution to any ProMax model. With the Optimization Tool, our users can formulate and s…
- Relief Systems
Starting in ProMax 6.0 there is a new relief valve block that will allow you to compare a variety of different relief scenarios in one location.
- Renewable Diesel
A growing area in the transportation segment is “Green” Renewable Diesel. Unlike biodiesel, which is comprised of methyl esters, Renewable Diesel is made up of saturated alkanes, making it molecularly identical to traditional diesel. This allows Renewable Diesel to be a direct pl…
- Renewable Natural Gas
Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) is a growing sector for clean, alternative fuel sources. RNG allows the monetization of a variety of otherwise waste streams, such as Municipal Wastewater Treatment, Landfills, and Agricultural waste. RNG is used as a direct substitute for fossil fuel…
- Separators
The Separator Sizing package included in ProMax is capable of helping you size both horizontal and vertical separation vessels in a multitude of process conditions, including separators, scrubbers, knockouts, flash drums, and slug catchers. The methodology focuses on a minimizati…
- Sour Water Stripping
Model virtually any flow configuration of a sour water stripping facility with ProMax. Users have access to Bryan Research & Engineering's custom electrolytic property package, enabling them to create models that accurately predict operating conditions.
- Sulfur Recovery and Tail Gas Cleanup (TGCU)
ProMax contains a complete suite of reactor models facilitating an easy-to-set-up, yet accurate model of sulfur recovery unit operations. A theoretical approach with empirical modifications allows the user to model real world behavior, whether for the Claus Process itself or a va…
- Workflow Solutions
ProMax offers many methods of connecting with your current workflow or programs to facilitate obtaining the information you want, when you need it. Create connections to monitor current plant operations and easily predict how changes may affect the bottom line. Utilize our open a…
