Advanced Process Simulation and Thermodynamics Software for the Process Industries

Virtual Materials Group (VMG) - The best simulation software development team and the best technical support group in the industry
VMGSim - Comprehensive, Fully Interactive process simulation for oil, gas and chemical industries
VMGThermo - Power your Engineering Calculations with the Plug-In thermo standard from VMG
    Oct, 2008

VMGSim Version 4.0 Highlights

Flowsheeting
Project Report
Improved speed of Visio PFD when recalling cases
New VMGSim COM interface

Unit Operations
Air Cooler rating
Added fins and nozzles to heat exchanger rating
Multi pass tray calculations for amine towers
Variable ambient pressure for guage pressure unit conversions
Added custom equations to selector block
Added draw/feed ratio as a specification to distillation tower
Display actual compositions and ionic strength for amine systems

Dynamics Assistants
Added initialization sets as a tool to define initial conditions in dynamic simulations
Specification Analysis for Pressure Flow Solver
Enhanced behavior of Reset functionality for dynamic assistants
Color streams in Visio PFD based on Pressure Flow specifications

Thermodynamics
20,000 pure components
BK-10 property package
Improved bubble point estimation for amines at low acid gas concentrations
Enhanced mass transfer modeling in amine system including pressure dependency
Metals and metal oxides additions for gasification package

Introduction to VMGSim Course

This intensive two day course provides process engineers an introduction to VMGSim.s features and capabilities using a series of tutorials and demonstrations. The Course will include the following:
Introduction to VMGSim, User Interface, Integration with Excel, Visio-Based PFD Engine, Work Flow Optimization, Multiple Flow sheets, Reporting Capabilities, Dynamic Flow sheet Assistants.

Calgary Course Dates

  • June 3-4, 2009
  • Sept 23-24, 2009
  • Nov 25-26, 2009

Attendance is limited. Early registration is recommended. Laptops are required.
Register at: register [at] virtualmaterials [dot] com

We are a chemical engineering software company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, focused on developing high quality and cost-effective process simulation and thermophysical property software for the process industries. Virtual Materials Group (VMG) was founded in 1996 by a talented group of engineers and computer scientists previously involved in the Hyprotech project. The group brings extensive (15-40 years each) experience in thermodynamics, process simulation and software development. Our team has expanded rapidly and incorporated local offices across the globe that bring a wealth of experience and a proven track record of engineering software deployment and technical support.

VMG places great importance on the quality of thermophysical properties, whether deployed directly in VMGSim or when VMGThermo is deployed as a plug-in thermophysical property engine. We take great pride in providing proven, validated and robust thermo-physical property prediction packages for the hydrocarbon, chemicals and petrochemical industry. Our thermodynamic models are backed by extensive experimental data and support provided by our knowledgeable technical support team.

Our flagship product VMGSim™ is the modern process simulation system that integrates a state of the art flowsheeting kernel with Visio™ for ease-of-use and powerful graphics capability and Excel™ for seamless bidirectional spreadsheet calculations. The power of VMG's thermodynamic packages drives the core of VMGSim. VMGSim provides affordable steady-state process simulation with uncompromising quality backed up by Virtual Materials Group's expertise and technical support.

VMG also provides high level consulting in thermodynamic model development and custom process simulator development.

For more information or to talk to one of us, please visit the Contacts page.