Today’s business and operational requirements for thermal power plants are significantly more complex than ever before. Unstable fuel costs and demand for higher operational flexibility together with increasing environmental constraints are challenges for any thermal power plant project. Precise planning is essential for new or modified power plants.

A reliable heat balance and performance model is a key factor for any successful thermal power plant project: At early project stages it is necessary to determine whether and how the performance requirements can be achieved. At later stages in serves for identification of operational limits and to determine optimum operating points.

IPSEpro is the ideal platform for creating heat balance and performance models for thermal power plants.

IPSEpro Modeling Tools

IPSEpro's Process Simulation Environment PSE together with the Advance Power Plant Library APP_Lib form the basic tools for setting up and calculating plant models.

Gas Turbine Library

• IPSEpro-PSServer
• Advance Power Plant Library
• Gas Turbine Library

Geothermal energy is a clean, renewable and inexhaustible source for producing power. However, the thermal efficiency of geothermal power plants is low, because geothermal fluids do not reach high temperatures. This makes it important to find the best process layout and the best working fluid for the power plant process. For selecting the optimum plant for a given geothermal site accurate performance models of the possible options play an important role.

IPSEpro is the ideal tool for creating performance models of any plant type used for geothermal power generation.

IPSEpro Modeling Tools

For modeling geothermal process plants with IPSEpro the following modules are required:

• IPSEpro PSE
• Low Temperature Process Library

Other modules of interest are:

• IPSEpro PSXLink
• IPSEpro PSOptimize
• IPSEpro PSValidate

The challenge of refrigeration processes is to create the cooling capacity using the lowest possible amount of energy. This is achived by identifying the optimum process but also by integrating the processes in the best way with other processes.

IPSEpro models provide valuable information about the appropriate process design for refrigeration processes.

IPSEpro Modeling Tools

For modeling refrigeration process plants with IPSEpro the following modules are required:

• IPSEpro PSE
• Refrigeration Process Library

Other modules of interest are:

• IPSEpro PSXLink
• IPSEpro PSOptimize
• IPSEpro PSValidate

Concentrating solar power plants are system using established technology that is readily available. In comparison with photovoltaic systems they have the advantage that by storing thermal energy their production profile can match the demand profile.

In order to commercially compete with photovoltaic systems, CSP plants must be optimally designed. For this purpose IPSEpro performance models have enormous value.

IPSEpro Modeling Tools

For modeling refrigeration process plants with IPSEpro the following modules are required:

• IPSEpro PSE
• Concentrating Solar Power Library

Other modules of interest are:

• IPSEpro PSXLink
• IPSEpro PSOptimize
• IPSEpro PSValidate

Shortage of fresh water has become one of the major challenges for societies all over the world. Water desalination offers an opportunity to significantly increase the freshwater supply for drinking, industrial use and irrigation. Over the last decades seawater desalination has become an important source for potable water for many arid regions.

To guarantee affortable supply of water through desalination the demand for the construction of efficent and economic desalination plants is growing continuously. Reliable performance models are essential for developing efficient plants. IPSEpro is the ideal tool for creating performance models and for using them to design efficient plants.

IPSEpro Modeling Tools

For modeling desalination process plants with IPSEpro the following modules are required:

• IPSEpro PSE
• Desalination Process Library

Other modules of interest are:

• IPSEpro PSXLink
• IPSEpro PSOptimize
• IPSEpro PSValidate