CHEMCAD ™

CHEMCAD is Chemstations’ integrated suite of intuitive

chemical process simulation software that broadens an
engineer’s capabilities and increases productivity.

CHEMCAD its into the engineering environment and

supercharges an engineer’s eiciency when facing the toughest
chemical process models or addressing day-to-day challenges.

Engineering advanced
Engineering advanced. The CHEMCAD suite of chemical
process simulation software powerfully advances the
chemical engineering thought process and intuitively
adapts to an engineer’s work low when simulating
chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, mechanical,
and environmental processes. CHEMCAD is dynamic
enough to handle virtually any challenge, yet it operates
within a single graphical interface. And it’s backed by
the best technical support in the industry.

Contents
→ Working with CHEMCAD -------------- 1

→ Day-to-Day Engineering Tasks ------- 2

→ Small Projects ---------------------------- 3

→ → Large Projects ---------------------------- 4

→ Integrated Solutions -------------------- 5

→ Suite Overview --------------------------- 6

→ Modules, Features and

Unit Operations -------------------------- 8
 → User customizable panes
→ CHEMCAD Explorer pane to make
navigating simulations easy
CHEMCAD has the power and tremendous range
→ Workspace to create and work with
of capabilities to meet an engineer’s chemical process low diagrams (PFDs)
→ Palette pane for easy drag and drop
process simulation needs, from day-to-day of unit operations, text, and symbols
challenges to large, multifaceted projects. → Message pane makes it easy to
see diagnostics as you work with a
Its open architecture its into the chemical engineering computing environment simulation
and allows for smooth interaction with other commonly used programs, while its
→ Toolbar makes common tasks easy
intuitive graphical user interface enables engineers to do their jobs more eiciently to access
and boost productivity.

CHEMCAD is scalable and allows users to purchase only the features they need
for a speciic industry and process, enabling them to create their own customized
version. Each module in the suite can be purchased separately and all modules
work together within the same interface, resulting in maximum lexibility and
afordability.

CHEMCAD ofers numerous beneits that advance the engineering process

and save users both time and money.

→ Increases productivity by
an average of 25 percent

→ Reduces costs by an average

of 30 percent

→ Improves accuracy of calculations

by up to 80 percent

→ Seamless interaction with integrated

products and third-party software,
such as Excel and Word

→ Continually updated in response to

industry trends

→ Supports COM/DCOM, OLE, OPC and

CAPE-OPEN, and generates reports in
CSV and RTF

→ Built for Intel-based PCs running → Graphical plotting of results

Microsoft Windows → Tabular reports of results
→ Requires minimal training → Use tabs to navigate or tile
multiple windows
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 Engineering advanced

Day-to-Day Engineering Tasks

CHEMCAD helps solve basic calculations and complete daily tasks faster,
increasing productivity.

Equipment Sizing
← Equipment sizing also
available for:
Pumps
Safety Relief Devices
Column Trays and
Packing

↑ Heat Exchangers ↑ Piping/Valves - Pressure

Drop/Line Sizing
↑ Vessels

Thermophysical Property Calculations

↑ Component Family Analyses

↑ Bubble/Dew Points
↑ Data Regression
Pure Components
Binary Interaction Parameters

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Small Projects
CHEMCAD streamlines processes used in smaller projects
to improve work low.

Troubleshooting / Process Improvement

↑ Reporting
Equipment/process costing
Process safety analyses
Regulatory compliance reports
Heat and material balance reporting
↑ Model potential customer systems
in order to sell equipment and/or
processes

↑ Equipment Design
Distillation with mass transfer
calculation
Relief system design/rating with
DIERS

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 Engineering advanced

Large Projects
More extensive projects with several team members are made more eicient
by CHEMCAD’s integrated modules and intuitive interface.

← Process Development
Fitting reaction kinetics from
experimental data
Direct lab experiments and
pilot plant runs
Scale up from lab to pilot and
pilot to production

← Dynamic Simulations
Control system design/checkout
Safety analyses

← Process intensiication studies

← Energy eiciency/optimization
← Data reconciliation
← Process economics

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Integrated Solutions
CHEMCAD can be used as a pivotal player in very large, ongoing projects,
working seamlessly with other software programs.

↑ Visual Basic for applications

↑ Excel ‘wrappers’ for simulations

↑ Integrated solutions
Process/plant performance
monitoring
Model predictive control
Real-time optimizations
CHEMCAD as the engine for other
applications

↑ Operator training systems

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 Engineering advanced
The CHEMCAD suite includes six products that can
be purchased individually or bundled as needed to
accommodate speciic industries, projects and processes.
CC-STEADY STATE
Chemical process simulation software that includes libraries
of chemical components, thermodynamic methods, and unit
operations to allow steady-state simulation of continuous
chemical processes from lab scale to full scale.
Ideal for → Users who want to design processes, or rate
existing processes, in steady state.
CC-DYNAMICS
Process simulation software that takes steady-state
simulations to the next level of idelity to allow dynamic
analysis of lowsheets. The possibilities are endless:
operability check-out, PID loop tuning, operator training,
even online process control and soft sensor functionality.
Ideal for → Users who want to design or rate dynamic
processes.
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CC-THERM
Heat exchanger design and rating software available as an
add-on or standalone program. CC-THERM makes use of
multiple international standards for design and materials to
make sizing a heat exchanger faster and more accurate. The
program covers shell-and-tube, plate-and-frame, air-cooled,
and double-pipe exchangers. Rigorous designs are based
on CHEMCAD’s foundation of physical property and phase
equilibria data.
Ideal for → Users who want to design or vet a design by a
vendor of a heat exchanger (single unit at a time), and those
who want to rate existing exchangers in new service or
perform “what if” calculations.
CC-SAFETY NET
Piping and safety relief network simulation software that
is a subset of CC-STEADY STATE (all of CC-SAFETY NET’s
features are included in CC-STEADY STATE). This program
allows rigorous analysis of any piping network. It combines
the latest in two-phase relief device calculation, rigorous
pressure drop calculation, rigorous physical property
calculation, and rigorous phase equilibrium calculation to
deliver fast, accurate answers.
Ideal for → Users who need to design or rate piping
networks or safety relief devices/systems.
 CHEMCAD has a variety
of applications, including:
→ Research and Development
→ Project/Process Design
→ Project/Process Redesign and Optimization
→ Operations/Maintenance
→ Safety and Hazard Analysis
→ Environmental Study and Analysis
→ Project and Product Sales
→ Education

CHEMCAD is commonly used

in such industries as:
→ Exploration and Production

CC-FLASH → Reining
Physical properties and phase equilibria calculation software → Commodity Chemicals
that is a subset of the CHEMCAD suite (all of the CHEMCAD
→ Fine and Specialty Chemicals
suite products include CC-FLASH capabilities). This program
allows rigorous calculation of physical properties and → Pharmaceuticals
phase equilibria (VLE, LLE, VLLE) for pure components and
→ Custom and Toll Manufacturing
mixtures.
→ Engineering and Construction
Ideal for → Users who need physical property and phase
→ Consulting
equilibrium data, as well as users who need property
prediction and regression. → Process Equipment Manufacturing
→ Power Plants
CC-BATCH
→ Carbon Capture and Storage
Batch distillation simulation software that, when used as
an add-on or standalone program, makes batch distillation → Alternative Fuels (Bioethanol, Biodiesel)
simulation and design easy with intuitive, operation step- → Academic University Programs
based input. CC-BATCH is extremely lexible, with many
operating modes and the capability to model any number of
operating steps and conditions. CC-BATCH optimizes batch
operation, minimizes intermediate “slop” cuts, and increases
productivity.

Ideal for → Users who want to design or rate a batch

distillation column.

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CHEMCAD modules, features and unit operations

Here you will ind a summary of features and properties of the CHEMCAD
Suite to allow you to ind the modules that satisfy your requirements.

KEY SS,D → Component separator

SS,D,SN → Compressor / Expander (Turbine)
ALL → ALL MODULES SS → CC-STEADY STATE
D → CC-DYNAMICS T → CC-THERM SS,D,SN → Controller (Goal Seeker)
B → CC-BATCH SN → CC-SAFETY NET
F → CC-FLASH SS,D,SN • Numerical controller similar to solver routine
SS,D,SN → Control Valve
Functionality SS,D,SN,F → Divider
ALL → Design New Processes SS,D → Excel Unit
ALL → Model Existing Processes SS,D • User customizable unit operation using
ALL → Optimize/Debottleneck Existing Processes a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet as a unit
operation
ALL → HAZOP Analysis
SS,D → Fired Heater
ALL → Environmental Analysis
SS,D,SN,F → Flash
ALL → Process Expansion Modeling
SS,D,T,SN → Heat Exchanger
SS,D → Economic Feasibility Studies
SS,D → LNG Heat Exchanger (multi stream exchanger)
D,SN → Control System Design/Checkout
SS,D → Loop
D,SN → Advanced Process Control
SS,D • Used to execute a given sequence of
SS,D • Plant Data Reconciliation UnitOps run until a convergence tolerance is
SS,D • Operator Training Systems (OTS) reached
SS,D → Meta
SS,D • Real Time Optimization (RTO)
SS,D • Process/Plant Performance Monitoring (PPM)
SS,D • Link another flowsheet as a unit operation for
nesting large or commonly used simulations
ALL → Day to Day Engineering Calculations
SS,D,SN,F → Mixer
SS,D,T,B,SN → Equipment Design/Rating
SS,D,SN → Node
SS,D,T,B,SN → Process Development
SS,D,SN • Allows simultaneous flow and pressure
SS,D,T,B,SN → Utility System Design/Checkout calculations throughout the flowsheet for
ALL Unit Operations hydraulic calculations
SS,D → Distillation
SS,D → Phase Generator
SS,D,SN → Pipe Simulator
SS,D • Shortcut and rigorous
SS,D,SN → PID Controller
SS,D • Simultaneous correction and rigorous inside
out algorithms SS,D,SN → RAMP Controller
SS,D • Three phase distillation SS,D,SN → Pump
SS,D • Mass transfer based distillation for packed SS → Recorder
and trayed columns
SS,D → Stream Reference
SS,D • Column autoconvergence
SS,D • Transfer process stream information to other
SS,D • Reactive distillation stream
B • Batch distillation SS,D → User Added Module
D • Dynamic distillation SS,D • User customizable unit operation using a
SS,D → Reactors .DLL file created by the user for ultimate
customization
SS,D • Stoichiometric
SS,D,SN → Valve
SS,D • Equilibrium
SS,D → Vessel
SS,D • Gibbs free energy minimization
SS,D → Solids Handling:
SS,D • Kinetic (PFR or CSTR)
SS,D • Baghouse Filter
D • Batch (CSTR) Reactor
SS,D • Centrifugal Filter
SS,D → Calculator / Parser
SS,D • Crusher/Grinder
SS,D • User customizable unit operation

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SS,D • Crystallizer ALL - Predictive Soave-Redlich-Kwong (PSRK)
SS,D • Cyclone ALL - Elliott Suresh Donohoe (ESD)
SS,D • Dryer ALL - Statistical Associating Fluid Theory
(SAFT)
SS,D • Electrostatic Precipitator
ALL - Peng-Robinson-Stryjek-Vara (PRSV)
SS,D • Hydrocyclone
ALL • Empirical
SS,D • Screen
ALL - ESSO (Maxwell-Bonnell)
SS,D • Sedimentator
ALL - Ideal Vapor Pressure (Ideal Solution)
SS,D • Venturi Scrubber
ALL - Henry’s Gas Law
SS,D • Washer
SS,D
ALL • Activity Coefficient Methods
→ Custom
ALL - UNIQUAC (UNIQUAC with the new
SS,D • Microsoft Excel spreadsheet unit
group and surface parameters)
SS,D •.DLL generated from C++ ALL - UNIFAC/UNIQUAC (UNIQUAC with the
SS,D • Visual Basic internal VBA old group and surface parameters)
ALL Thermodynamics ALL - UNIFAC VLE
ALL → General ALL - UNIFAC LLE
ALL • Vapor phase association ALL - UPLM (UNIFAC for Polymers)
ALL • Different K-Value models and/or enthalpy ALL - Wilson
models for different units or trays ALL - T. K. Wilson
ALL • Different BIPs for different units or trays ALL - HRNM Modified Wilson
ALL • Vapor-Liquid and Vapor-Liquid-Liquid ALL - Van Laar
equilibrium
ALL - Non-Random Two Liquid (NRTL)
ALL • Composite heat curve pinch analysis
ALL - Margules
ALL • Distillation curve assay analysis
ALL - GMAC (Chien-Null)
ALL • Physical properties databank for pure
components (DIPPR) ALL - Scatchard-Hildebrand (Regular Solution)
ALL • BIP database for activity coefficient ALL - Wilson Salt
equations ALL - Modified UNIFAC (Dortmund)
ALL • Electrolytes database ALL • Special Systems
ALL • Vapor phase association database ALL - Amines (VLE and LLE) (AMINE)
ALL • Interface to corporate and/or third party ALL - Sour Water (SOUR)
databases
ALL - Tri-Ethylene-Glycol/Water Dehydration
ALL • Vapor fugacity or poynting correction
(TEG Dehydration)
ALL • SRK and Peng Robinson Alpha function and ALL - Flory-Huggins Method for Polymers
Boston Mathias extrapolation option
ALL - Maurer model for Formaldehyde -
ALL • Henry components option
Methanol - Water systems
ALL • Wilson model salt option ALL • User Supplied K-Values
ALL • User customizable Binary Interaction ALL - Polynomial K-values
Parameters
ALL - Tabular K-values (USRK)
ALL • Binary Interaction Parameters Regression
ALL - Partial Pressures of Aqueous Mixtures
ALL • Fill in missing BIPs using regression of
(PPAQ) (Tabular Data)
UNIFAC with one click
ALL - User Subroutine
ALL → K-Values
ALL - User Specified Activity Coefficients
ALL • Equations of State
(ACTX)
ALL - Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK) SS,D - User Visual C VLE compile program
ALL - Grayson-Streed Modified Chao-Seader (ADDK)
ALL - Peng-Robinson (PR) ALL • Special Option Settings
ALL - Benedict-Webb-Rubin-Starling (BWRS) ALL - Vapor Phase Association
ALL - API Soave-Redlich-Kwong (API SRK) ALL - Hydrocarbon/Water Solubility
ALL - Modified Soave-Redlich-Kwong (MSRK) ALL - Vapor Fugacity/Poynting Correction
ALL - Extended Soave-Redlich-Kwong (TSRK) ALL - Salt Effect (Dissolved Salts)

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ALL - Ethane/Ethylene, Propane/Propylene ALL - Mole % Weight

special BIPs ALL - VBA
ALL - Alpha Function Options ALL • Electrolyte Liquid Density Mixing Rules
ALL - Solid-Liquid Equilibrium ALL - Clark Correction to Mole % Weight
ALL Predict solid-liquid equilibrium from ALL - VBA
melting point and heat of fusion
ALL - Based on Components
ALL Allows study of solid-liquid, and
ALL - Based on Actual Volume
vapor-solid-liquid systems
ALL Model predicts based on ALL • Liquid Viscosity Models
assumption of a single solid state ALL - ASME
SS,D • CAPE-OPEN imported K-value methods ALL - Lesou and Stiel
SS,D • CAPE-OPEN imported thermodynamics ALL - Library
ALL → Enthalpy ALL - Two Term
ALL • Equations of State ALL - Pressure Correction
ALL - Redlich-Kwong ALL • Liquid Viscosity Mixing Rules
ALL - Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK) ALL - Log Average by Mass Fraction
ALL - Peng-Robinson ALL - Log Average by Mole Fraction
ALL - API Soave-Redlich-Kwong (API SRK) ALL - VBA
ALL - Lee-Kesler ALL • Electrolyte Liquid Viscosity Mixing Rules
ALL - Benedict-Webb-Rubin-Starling (BWRS) ALL - Log <> Mass % with Clark Correction
ALL - Peng-Robinson-Stryjek-Vara (PRSV) ALL - Log <> Mole % with Clark Correction
ALL • Chemical Systems ALL • Vapor Density Model
ALL - Latent Heat ALL - Chemstations Method
ALL • Special Systems ALL • Vapor Viscosity Models
ALL - Amine ALL - Chapman-Enskog
ALL - Steam Table ALL - Library
ALL - Mixed Model ALL - Thodos
ALL - No Enthalpy (Mass balance only) ALL - Dean-Stiel Pressure Correction
ALL • User Added Data ALL • Liquid Surface Tension Models
SS,D - User Visual C VLE compile program ALL - Hakim
(ADDH)
ALL - Hydrocarbon Correlation
ALL - Polynomial Enthalpy Model (Polynomial
ALL - Library
H)
ALL ALL - Miller
- Enthalpy Table
ALL ALL - Onsager Samaras (Electrolytes)
- User Subroutine
ALL • Special Option Settings ALL • Liquid Thermal Conductivity Models
ALL ALL - API Procedure
- Heat of mixing by gamma
ALL ALL - Hydrocarbon
- Heat of solution
ALL ALL - Library
- Electrolyte enthalpy
ALL ALL - Riedel/Jamieson (Electrolytes)
- Ideal gas heat capacity
ALL - Steam tables ALL • Vapor Thermal Conductivity Models
ALL ALL - API Procedure
- Compressed water pressure correction
ALL
SS,D • CAPE-OPEN imported enthalpy - Library
ALL → Transport Properties ALL • Vapor Conductivity Correlation (>1 atm)
ALL
ALL • Liquid Density Models - No Correction
ALL ALL - API
- API Lu’s Method
ALL ALL - Stiel-Thodos
- Cavett
ALL - Library ALL • Custom
ALL SS,D - VBA
- Rackett
ALL • Liquid Density Mixing Rules SS,D • CAPE-OPEN Imported Transport Properties

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 ALL → Physical Property Database D,SN - Graphical plotting of time dependent
results
ALL • Components
D,SN - Online, real-time display of results during
ALL - Over 2,000 pure components from
calculation
DIPPR
D,SN - Additional mode of operation allowing
ALL - User customizable components
user interactivity while the simulation is
ALL Group Contribution Estimation running
ALL UNIFAC D • Operator Training System (OTS)
ALL Joback D CHEMCAD GUI can be disabled and/or
ALL Methyl Esters hidden for use as an engine in an OTS
environment
ALL Biodiesel D Time scale factor for scaling to real time
ALL - Edit Components ALL Tools
ALL • Property Regression SS,D,T,B → Rigorous equipment sizing routines for:
ALL → Electrolytes T • Heat Exchangers
ALL • Methods T - Shell and tube
ALL - Pitzer T Design mode - geometry calculated
ALL - mNRTL 1986 and 1982 electrolyte from user constraints and desired
activity methods for strong and weak performance
electrolytes including temperature T
dependent interaction parameters Rating mode - performance
calculated from geometry
ALL • Binary and ternary interaction parameter T
database Fouling rating mode - fouling
calculated from geometry and
ALL • Reaction equilibrium database including performance
many common industrial systems; calculated T
from Gibbs free energy when data is absent Simulation mode - geometry used
to calculate performance in a
ALL • Expert system assistance for setting up CHEMCAD simulation
electrolyte chemistry T - Double Pipe
ALL • True species conversion option T Design mode - geometry calculated
ALL • Electrolyte user database option from user constraints and desired
ALL • Option to consider electrolyte precipitate performance
formation T Rating mode - performance
ALL Flowsheeting calculated from geometry
T Fouling rating mode - fouling
ALL → Flowsheet Convergence
calculated from geometry and
SS,T,B,SN,F • Steady State performance
SS,T,B,SN,F - Sequential modular convergence T Simulation mode - geometry used
SS,T,B,SN,F - Speed up methods (Wegstein, Dominant to calculate performance in a
Eigenvalue) CHEMCAD simulation
T Calculation of U-tube or straight
SS,T,B,SN,F - Simultaneous modular convergence
tube double pipe exchangers
SS,T,B,SN,F - Flexible flowsheet tolerances (sensible to sensible heat transfer
SS,D,SN - Optimization algorithm - maximize only)
or minimize objective function given T Allows multitube arrangements
certain independent variables and
T - Plate and Frame
constraints
T Design mode - geometry calculated
SS,D,SN - Sensitivity and parametric analysis with
reporting from user constraints and desired
performance
SS,D - Data maps to/from Excel
T Rating mode - performance
ALL - Unlimited size of flowsheet (unlimited calculated from geometry
number of streams and unit operations)
T Fouling rating mode - fouling
ALL - Run entire flowsheet, group of UnitOps, calculated from geometry and
or a single UnitOp performance
D,SN • Dynamics T - Air Cooled
D,SN - Full dynamic flowsheeting for operability, T Design mode - geometry calculated
training, startup/shutdown from user constraints and desired
performance

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T Rating mode - performance ALL • Flowsheet Topology

calculated from geometry ALL • Flowsheet Thermodynamic Settings
T Fouling rating mode - fouling ALL • User Component Data
calculated from geometry and
performance ALL • Mass and Energy Balance
SS,D,B • Trays (Sieve, Bubble Cap, Valve) SS,D,B • Batch Results
SS,D,B • Packing (Random & Structured) D,B,SN • Dynamic Column / Stream / UnitOp Reports
SS,D,SN • Pipes ALL • Full Consolidated Report of Simulation
SS,D,SN • Pressure Vessels ALL → Charts
SS,D,SN • Orifices ALL • TPXY
SS,D,SN • Control Valves ALL • Binodal
SS,D,SN • Three Phase Vessels ALL • Residue Curve Maps
SS,D,SN • Safety Relief Devices (DIERS) ALL • Binodal with Residue Curve Map Overlay
SS,D,T,B,SN → Spec (specification) sheets in Microsoft Excel ALL • Binary Liquid-Liquid Equilibrium
SS,D,SN → Costing/Economics ALL • Solid-Liquid Equilibrium
ALL → Data Regression ALL • Stream Properties
ALL • Pure component physical property ALL • Phase Envelopes
regression ALL • Composite Curves
ALL • Multicomponent VLE/LLE regression from ALL • Pseudo-Component Curves
user data, UNIFAC, or infinite dilution data
ALL • UnitOp Charts
ALL • Regression of electrolyte data
D,B,SN • Dynamic Charts
SS,D • Reaction rate regression from temperature,
heat, and concentration data ALL • User Specified File chart
SS,D → Data Reconciliation ALL • Symbol Builder for Custom Graphic
SS,D,SN,F
Representations
→ Vapor Venting/Depressurizing
ALL GUI
ALL → EPA WAR Algorithm for environmental and health
ALL → Explorer Tree
impact studies
SS,D,SN,F ALL → Unit Operations Palette
→ Hydrate/Solid CO2 Prediction
SS,D,SN,F ALL → Messaging Window
→ Total Organic Content/Chemical Oxygen Demand
Calculation ALL → Flowsheeting Window
ALL Reporting ALL → Help System
ALL → Text Reports ALL → Email simulations directly from CHEMCAD (using
ALL • Available in your email client)
ALL ALL → Autosave system saves data at regular (user
- Internal text report viewer
ALL
specified) intervals and includes automatic file
- Microsoft Wordpad recovery at startup
ALL - Microsoft Word SS,D Extensibility
ALL - Microsoft Excel SS,D → Licensed, embedded Visual Basic for Applications
ALL • Stream Compositions / Properties (Single / (VBA) and Visual Studio Toolkit for Applications
Multiple Streams or Groups) (VSTA) included in CHEMCAD
ALL • Particle Size Distribution SS,D → OLE/COM/DCOM
ALL • Pseudo-Component Curves SS,D → CAPE-OPEN Thermo Import
ALL • UnitOps (Single / Multiple Unit Operations or SS,D → OPC Data Server
Groups) ALL → XML Export
ALL • Spec Sheets ALL Licensing
SS,D,B • Distillation ALL → 1, 3, & 5 year, monthly, and hourly licenses
SS,D,B - Column Profile available
SS,D,B ALL → Safenet SuperPro hardware keys (local and
- Tray Composition
SS,D,B
network)
- Tray Properties
ALL → Safenet License Manager software key (network)
SS,D - Tower Mass Transfer
ALL → System Authorization software key (local)
SS,D,B - Dynamic Column History
SS,D - Column Diagnosis

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