[By NBC-1TV H. J Yook]Process Systems Enterprise (PSE), the Advanced Process Modelling company, provided a preview of the company’s forthcoming gCCS systems modelling environment for whole-chain carbon capture and storage (CCS) applications at the Advanced Process Modelling Forum in London today.

gCCS is intended to address many of the significant challenges to commercialisation arising from the fact that the design and operation of CCS systems needs to take into account the multiple interactions across the whole capture-transmission-storage chain, for multiple sources and multiple sinks. The complexity is compounded by the fact that different organisations are involved at each stage of the chain. Ultimately a single end-to-end modelling environment is required to support key business and technology decisions.

Alfredo Ramos, head of PSE’s Power & CCS business and leader of the development, said “Design and operating decisions at the power plant can have a significant effect on storage providers at the other end of the chain, and vice versa. This raises many complex questions which gCCS can help to answer. We believe that we bring unique enabling technology to the sector.”