AVEVA PRO/II Simulation improves process design, operational analysis and performs engineering studies to optimize plant performance. Designed to perform rigorous heat and material balance calculations for a wide range of chemical processes, AVEVA PRO/II Simulation offers a wide variety of thermodynamic models to virtually every industry.
“Having multiple ways of predicting things in the simulator helps you quickly identify the bookends and come up with a robust design.”
—Dr. Kirtan Trivedi, Global Projects, ExxonMobil
With a variety of reactor models available, engineers can accurately predict plant behavior across operating conditions.
Rigorously model, analyze and optimize reactor units to maximize plant performance and increase overall profitability.
With a variety of reactor models available, engineers can accurately predict plant behavior across operating conditions.
Benefit from a comprehensive library of components, thermodynamics and physical property data, and unit operations, including rigorous refinery reactor models.
Use AVEVA PRO/II Simulation in virtually every industry, including oil and gas production, refining, petrochemicals, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and polymer plant modeling.
Create custom models and reporting via Microsoft Excel. AVEVA PRO/II Simulation integrates with industry-standard licensors including HTRI, OLI, Koch-Glitsch, and MySep. Import assay information via AVEVA Unified Supply Chain.
AVEVA PRO/II Simulation is available via the cloud as well as the traditional on-premise access method. This infrastructure gives you secure user access control, seamless maintenance, and simplifies IT overhead.
To help biofuel producers enhance renewable diesel production, ExxonMobil used AVEVA PRO/II Simulation to build ExxonMobil Renewable Diesel (EMRD). The EMRD process provides superior control, optimizing production while meeting rigorous product specifications.
Design new processes and evaluate alternate plant configurations for the most cost-effective operation.
AVEVA PRO/II Simulation is now available via the cloud with on-demand access, seamless maintenance and flexible usage.
Improve the safety and quality of your designs by making sure the specifications assigned to other disciplines are correct.
Cost reduction: It enables engineers to evaluate design and operating scenarios virtually before making physical changes, helping optimize energy use (e.g., heat integration, column/reboiler duties), improve yields and product quality, right-size equipment, and reduce rework during design and revamps. It also supports troubleshooting by identifying root causes and testing corrective actions without disrupting production.
Safety: It supports safer decision-making by allowing teams to test process changes and “what-if” scenarios (e.g., feed variability, operating limits, control strategy changes) in a controlled environment. This helps validate operating windows, identify conditions that could lead to instability or off-spec operation, and improve procedures and training, reducing the likelihood of unsafe excursions when changes are implemented.
Sustainability: It helps reduce environmental impact by quantifying and minimizing energy consumption and emissions drivers (e.g., fuel/steam usage, cooling demand). Teams can compare lower-carbon operating strategies, assess debottlenecking or retrofit options that improve efficiency, and evaluate process modifications that reduce flaring/off-spec production and overall resource consumption, supporting emissions and efficiency targets with engineering-backed evidence.
AVEVA PRO/II Simulation models a wide range of processes at steady state, from refining to chemicals, and provides robust and accurate results based on industry-standard thermodynamic methods and physical property data from SimSci and external databanks.
AVEVA PRO/II Simulation includes a large library of unit operations and calculation blocks such as: general flowsheet models (flash drum, pump, compressor, expander, pipe, membrane), heat exchanger models (S&T, air cooled, fired heater, plate fin), flowsheet control, distillation models, solids models, reactor models, economics (CAPEX & OPEX) and emissions (scope 1 and scope 2 emissions).
Yes, refinery reactor models are available in AVEVA PRO/II Simulation. These unit models are based on the proven models in AVEVA™ Process Optimization. The refinery reactor models available are Isomerization, Visbreaker, Delayed Coker, HF Alkylation, H2SO4 Alkylation, Hydrotreater, Hydrocracker, Reformer and Fluidized Catalytic Cracker (FCC). In addition, there is integration with Technip’s SPYRO software for ethylene cracking.
For more information read our whitepaper on PRO/II: Refinery reactor models here.
