CDa-acces: new combustion group

July 31, 2003

Based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, CDa-acces is the latest company to join CD-adapco. Its ‘acces’ acronym stands for ‘Advanced Combustion & Chemical Engineering Solutions”.

CDa-acces has two primary missions. Firstly, it will provide timely and comprehensive computational based engineering solutions to meet the needs of the Chemical and Hydrocarbon Process Industry (CPI/HPI); and secondly, it will be the driving force behind CD-adapco’s development of state-of-the art Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software for that industry. CDa-acces’ strategy includes forming mutually beneficial alliances with its key industrial clients.

As a specialized consulting group, CDa-acces employs highly educated and dedicated professionals with a combined experience of more than fifty years in solving problems associated with combustion and chemically reacting flow systems. Founding members, Joseph D. Smith, Ph.D, Mike Henneke, Ph.D.P.E., Eric Hixson, P.E., Rajesh Rawat, Ph.D are well established experts in this industry.

Joseph Smith, President of CDa-acces, says:

“ Our future plans include offering total process simulation based solutions to our customers. Through close integration between CFD and Process Simulation packages (e.g., Aspen, HySim, gPROMS, etc.), we will produce and offer general engineering models to assist engineers with full plant optimization and analysis studies. Given CDa-acces’ broad industrial experience, we believe we are well suited to supply these services to our clients in the CPI/HPI. In the past, this service may have been provided by in-house support groups. In today’s world, out-sourcing has left many large companies needing these services, but are no longer able to provide it themselves. Instead, they now opt to hire this work from external consulting groups. CDa-acces expects to fulfill this need in the future.”