ProMax
by Bryan Research & Engineering
Process simulator from Bryan Research & Engineering widely used for gas treating, sulfur recovery, glycol dehydration and other oil and gas facility design. Version 7.0 adds data exchange with plant historians and new modelling blocks.
Specification
- Categories
- Process Simulation
- Phase
- EEngineering
- Status
- Active
- Deployment
- Desktop
- Licensing
- Commercial licence
- Standards
- None documented
- Official site
- bre.com
Capabilities
- aAmine treating and glycol dehydration modelling
- bPipeline network solver
- cOptimisation of multiple variables
- dDepressurisation and adsorber blocks
- eData exchange with PI, OPC-HDA, ODBC and Excel
Assessment
The specialist's choice for gas treating and sulfur recovery, often run alongside a general-purpose simulator.
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Capability25%8/10
Specialist modelling for amine treating, sulfur recovery, glycol dehydration and pipeline networks.
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Interoperability20%6/10
Data exchange with PI, OPC-HDA, ODBC and Excel.
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Scale15%7/10
Used for gas facility design and optimisation from units to networks.
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Usability15%7/10
Focused tools for gas processing engineers.
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Deployment10%6/10
Primarily desktop software.
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Ecosystem15%6/10
Well regarded in gas processing, narrower elsewhere.
Strengths
- Gas treating and sulfur recovery depth
- Historian data exchange
- Pipeline network solver
Considerations
- Narrower scope than general simulators
- Smaller ecosystem
- Desktop-centred
Editorial assessment from public documentation, 23 October 2026. Not a hands-on benchmark. Methodology
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Sources
- ProMaxBryan Research & Engineering · accessed 22 October 2026
Plate updated 22 October 2026 · revision 1