Madrid (Spain). Last November 14th 2024, the Simulation Department of Empresarios Agrupados hosted an inspiring workshop in Madrid about Digital Twins in the Industry. The event took place at the Gómez Pardo Foundation (ETS Ingenieros Minas), in the center of the city. The event brought together over 100 professionals from leading energy companies in Spain such as Acciona, Enagás, Endesa, Naturgy, Siemens, Schneider, Johnson Controls, and many more. We were thrilled to showcase our new EcosimPro TwinLab, designed to develop digital twins from our powerful multiphysics simulation tool, EcosimPro (multiphysics+ML+control+MMI+PI system). Additionally, the workshop featured fascinating real-world applications made with EcosimPro of digital twins, presented by experts from: The workshop concluded with a networking lunch, where participants exchanged insights and ideas about the exciting potential of digital twin technology. The new EcosimPro TwinLab offers a complete set of tools for creating the simulation models, exporting to multiple standards, connecting to PLCs and Scada Systems, connection with PI systems from plant, what-if scenarios, OTS creation, etc. You can contact us for more information (info@ecosimpro.com).  

From September 10th to 15th, the 15th International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology took place in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. The ISFNT is one of the main international events for the nuclear fusion field. The symposium focuses on both near-term and long-term fusion devices and reactor technologies, with special attention to science, engineering, experiments, facilities, modelling, analysis, design, and safety. At this symposium, a poster was presented showcasing the capability of EcosimPro and the TRITIUM toolkit for modelling tritium transport, specifically  a Water-Cooled Lithium Lead Test Blanket Module (WCLL TBM). TRITIUM toolkit contains first-principles models of the various terms involved in tritium transport such as: generation, advection, chemical reactions, permeation, diffusion, trapping, recombination and dissociation. Together with the TBM concept, the most relevant ancillary systems are considered as well.  Aiming at having a global perspective of tritium behaviour all over the TBS at any time, the following set of significant variables are computed: tritium inventory, permeation rates and recovery. For info at TRITIUM tool

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Empresarios Agrupados Internacional (EAI) organised the 9th Workshop European Space Propulsion Simulation (ESPSS) Workshop at ESA-ESTEC Noordwijk (Holland) during days 19-21 September. More than 45 people from the European space propulsion industry and ESA attended presentations on new enhancements to EcosimPro/ESPSS tool that will help design new missions. New phenomena such as multi phase flow modelling, electric propulsion, hydrogen combustion modelling, water propulsion, finite rate chemistry modelling, etc. The last day was dedicated to an advanced ESPSS course showing examples of water hammer and priming modelling, multi-fluid combustion, a complete Rocket Cycle ,etc. More info at ESPSS tool

Some of the papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Space Propulsion Conference SP2022 organised by ESA in Estoril in 2022 (9th-12th May) are now available at the  Papers > Space section in this website. These articles show real projects carried out by companies such as DLR, Thales Alenia, OHB, Ariane Group, GomSpace, Airbus Defence and Space, ESA, etc. in space propulsion projects. Today more than 50 companies in Europe use EcosimPro-ESPSS for space propulsion system simulation and it has become the reference tool in Europe for this type of studies. Just to mention a few examples, some of the projects are listed in the following paragraphs. These are just a few examples of the more than 20 papers of the Conference that used EcosimPro-ESPSS. We invite you to read these papers from our website. If you need more info about EcosimPro-ESPSS please contact info@ecosimpro.com.  

Empresarios Agrupados Internacional (Madrid, Spain) will be present at ASME TURBO 2022 (booth #214) in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) from June 13 to 17 with its PROOSIS simulation tool for modeling gas turbines. Today PROOSIS is used by world-class companies (eg Safran, Airbus, etc.) in the areas of design and optimization aeronautical propulsion systems. PROOSIS provides acausal-causal modelling language, performance maps handling, multipoint design with constraints tool, export of models using SAE standards, etc. Being a multidisciplinary simulation tool, PROOSIS is being used to study any new hydrogen-based engine configuration, electric propulsion, cryogenic lines, etc. that will allow the design of less polluting engines.

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Empresarios Agrupados Internacional are organizing a new ESPSS (European Space Propulsion System Simulation) User Workshop in Estoril on May 12th, within the European Space Propulsion Congress. The latest advances in advanced space propulsion system simulation for rockets and satellites with EcosimPro/ESPSS will be presented. It will be a forum to share experiences and propose new capabilities. We encourage you to participate either in person or via Teams (free of charge).

Madrid (Spain). Empresarios Agrupados Internacional S.A. (EAI) participates in the development of the ONEIRE – OPTIMUM NEXT GENERATION AIRCRAFT & INTEGRATED REAR END project whose objective is to investigate the first design phases of the new generation of low and zero emission aircraft powered by H2 in its 4 basic pillars: product, manufacturing and assembly systems, digitalisation and design tools and advanced exploration of “Zero Emission” configurations and associated technologies. The leader of the Consortium is Airbus, EAI participates as technological partner. EAI will undertake simulation studies of the use of hydrogen as a fuel in the aircraft’s APU designs. It will rely on its PROOSIS-ASYST aeronautical simulation toolkits to perform complex experiments to optimise the performance of these new type of low-polluting engines. This project has been subsidised by the CDTI with file number PTAG-20211008 through the call for 2021 of the procedure for granting aid for Strategic Sectorial Business Innovation Initiatives (“Aeronautical Technology Programme”), within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (financed by Next Generation EU funds, including the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism) and the State Programme for Business Leadership in R&D&I, of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2017-2020.

Cutting-edge papers using EcosimPro/ESPSS were published in the last Space Propulsion Conference 2020+1. These papers show the highly multidisciplinary capabilities offered by EcosimPro/ESPSS, being it used to address both chemical and electric propulsion system analyses by leading propulsion companies and institutions. The following list is an excellent proof of it:

A new toolkit for HVAC systems and building energy modelling tools in EcosimPro has been released within the H2020 Sphere European project. It allows the user to make digital twins of buildings for performing energy studies, optimization and real time simulations. These simulations can even include models of humans interacting with the rooms, CO2 control, a ventilation model, thermal impact, etc. A connection has been created with the BIM and IFC standards to be able to export 3D models to the EcosimPro environment and automate model conversion in EcosimPro. The final simulation model can also be exported as a digital twin of the building. When there are a lot of appliances, walls, volumes and ducts like in our virtual building shown above, you can speed up the pre-processing cycle with a plugin to derive schematics from .ifc, a 3D BIM format. Then, after the simulation, a black-box can be created and integrated with a SCADA system to improve energy savings. To simulate comfort, the first of these tools, the HVAC library, simulates the physics of fluid networks—heating, AC, tap water—and the air ducts with all their appliances: pumps, chillers, ducts, boilers, rooms, etc. Human ventilation models that can breathe in the room—taking in O2, giving off CO2 and water—and exchange heat can also be included. Meanwhile, the BUILDINGS library can be used to simulate the building itself (walls,doors, windows,etc.), as it contains all the architectural components that store, conduct, transfer and radiate heat. The systems into which the air conditioning, ventilation and control loops are coupled are physically connected with the HVAC library. What’s more, the HVAC library allows the user to analyze transient aspects due to fluid inertia, wall friction and heat transfer. It also provides an extensive database of properties of real fluids and materials. These libraries aim to fill in gaps about how our buildings work. These digital twins of buildings with humans inside them, so we could observe every physical magnitude and convert them into comfort and real money. They can be used to enhance building design, improve energy efficiency, and control our appliances with hardware-in-the-loop.