Hyperion Systems Engineering - Hyperion present in the 2007 AIChE spring meeting

Athens, Greece. 25 May 2007. Hyperion Systems Engineering Ltd., the leading independent Operator Training Simulator supplier and provider of lump-sum turn-key solutions and services to the process industries worldwide, announced their participation in the 2007 AIChE Spring National Meeting, which took place in Houston, Texas on 23-26 April.

The conference is organized by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (www.aiche.org), one of the world’s leading institutions for chemical engineering professionals, with more than 40,000 members from 93 countries. Hyperion presented a paper on the benefits from dynamic simulation based on the recent delivery of a full-scale operator training simulator for a Mild Hydrocracker and a Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit to a European refinery.

The presentation highlighted:

The challenges faced in modeling an FCC reactor.
The detailed, first-principle Hyperion approach for the whole FCC system (reactor, riser, cyclones, stripper, regeneration, standpipe and slide valves), which ensures that the system dynamics are accurately represented.
The ability to predict in advance the unit behavior upon feed change.
The simulator value for the client.

The audience demonstrated significant interest in the rigorous modeling of the FCC unit, as well as the techniques used to ensure accurate real-time calculations of the plant behavior during transients. Many questions were focused on the prediction of the unit operation when a hydro-treated feed is used and on the methods used to simulate catalyst deactivation and match the end-of-run conditions.

More information can be found by visiting the Hyperion web site (www.hyperion.com.cy).

Dean Jones, Vice President for Modeling and Simulation Solutions at Hyperion, stated: “Hyperion are very pleased to present at the AIChE spring meeting. Dynamic modeling and operator training simulators generate significant value for the process industries. Our participation in the leading conferences gives customers the opportunity to understand more about the technology and its value as well as Hyperion’s unique capabilities”.

About Operator Training Systems

Operator Training Simulators are detailed, high fidelity, real-time simulation systems that are custom-built to match the dynamic behavior of single or multiple plant units and their associated control systems. An Operator Training System may be used throughout the plant lifecycle to train operating crews, resulting in fewer operating errors and quicker and safer startups and shutdowns, improve plant reliability due to improved response to abnormal situations, optimize throughput and product quality, and provide the basis for evaluation of control strategies.

About Hyperion

Hyperion is the leading independent supplier of OTS solutions to the process industries.

Hyperion Systems Engineering Ltd. provides world-class professional consulting services and solutions in the areas of Supply Chain Management, Advanced Planning and Scheduling, Dynamic Simulation and Modeling, Advanced Process Control & Optimization and Plant Information Management. Hyperion enables Process Manufacturing companies to increase efficiency and profitability.

With headquarters in Cyprus and operating subsidiaries in the UK, Russia, Greece, India and Bahrain, Hyperion employs over 150 engineering professionals who have implemented over 200 projects worldwide. Hyperion has one of the world’s most experienced teams of resource in the field of Dynamic Simulation and Operator Training, with in excess of 50 simulation and modeling professionals who have implemented OTS projects for companies such as BP, Sasol, Motor Oil Hellas, Exxon, Texaco, Chevron, Shell, Saudi Aramco, Ferrostaal, in the Oil & Gas, Petro-Chemical, Chemical and Power generation industries.

Hyperion is certified to the ISO 9001:2000 standard, by EuroCert, for the design, development and implementation of Modelling and Simulation Solutions.

For more information, visit www.hyperion.com.cy/EN/services/mass/index.html

For further information please contact:

Vassilis Harismiadis
Hyperion Systems Engineering - Modelling & Simulation Solutions
Tel: +30 210 870 4900
Fax: +30 210 643 3368
E-mail: v.harismiadis@hyperionsystems.gr
Web: www.hyperion.com.cy