Our mission & vision
GB Simulation Technology is a consultancy based in UK providing technology, software for the oil and gas pipeline operations.
We offer innovative solutions for simulation, analysing, and optimization for your pipeline needs that will help you in the design and modifications or run your operation more efficiently and achieve profitability. We assist with the design, analytical assessment of safety devices for safe plant operation associated with the Oil, Gas and Petrochemical pipeline environment. We develop fluid thermophysical properties for the simulation software according to your specifications.
GB Simulation Technology was founded in 1984 by Gamini Bandara for the development of simulation software for the chemical and petroleum industry. Our mission started with the development of innovative software for chemical property prediction, simulation of process systems, optimization of distillation networks, and pipeline simulation.
We actualize a safe and optimal design through simulation. Efficient pipeline operations are now becoming more demanding than safe transport. The pipeline simulation is considered as an essential part of profitable management for meeting the primary customer commitments while maintaining the operation within safety constraints.
Our vision is to deliver innovative range of software solutions, backed by technology and consulting services to accomplish better process design and pipeline operations. Pipeline simulators developed by GB Simulation Technology have been used for the design, modifications, operation, training and controlling country-wide ethylene distribution networks.
History
GB Simulation Technology launched MICRO-CHEM Process Simulator® in 1985 as an interactive steady-state process simulation package for the PC. MICRO-CHEM Process Simulator® was a success and became a very useful tool for the process designers and engineers who were migrating from the heavy mainframe applications to PC software.
We recognized the need for a general pipeline simulator which also should accompany modelling of process units and field equipment.
MICRO-CHEM Process Simulator® was incorporated with a finite-volume compressible flow mass and thermal modeller accompanied with numerical solver. It was successfully installed as a fully pledged pipeline simulator for the UK Ethylene Pipeline Network in 1994.
GB Simulation Technology has been involved extensively in providing solutions and consulting services to the major pipelines operations.
The GBST Pipeline Simulator® was developed in 2015 as a complete pipeline modeller and solver accompanied with relevant process units for the transportation of compressible fluids. The simulator is built on the cutting edge technology and it has been applied successfully to modelling the UK Ethylene Pipeline Network.
Gamini Bandara
Gamini Bandara is president of GB Simulation Technology which he founded in 1984.
He served in the North Sea oil industry for years, operated software development and provided consultancy services to gas-oil transportation industry. In 1990 he worked with the design of the Shell North Western Ethylene Pipeline and later joined Shell as a consultant for the pipeline operational services.
He developed and installed for Shell a novel computerised system Interactive Simulation of the North Western Ethylene Pipeline in 1992. This interactive system was also adapted for two more ethylene pipelines in UK, the Trans Pennine Ethylene Pipeline, and the Wilton Grangemouth Ethylene Pipeline. The pipeline simulation system was later applied to the UK ethylene pipeline network.
Gamini Bandara is FIMechE, FIChemE and a chartered engineer. He works as a consultant to gas and oil pipeline industry. He shares his knowledge and experience at universities in his capacity as a visiting academic.
Gamini entered University of Ceylon, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 1965 and received BSc (Eng) in Mechanical Engineering in 1968. After completing the degree he joined the academic staff. He went to Imperial College, UK in 1972 to assume research under Professor Roger Sargent who is one of the earliest creators of the discipline of Process Systems Engineering. The research in process systems field had commenced in 1966 on the state-of-the-art equation-oriented flowsheeting package SpeedUp for steady-state and dynamic simulation.
Gamini researched on the simulation of optimal distillation systems and received his MSc Advanced Chemical Engineering for “Optimum Design of Plate Distillation Columns” in 1973 and his PhD for “Synthesis of Optimal Distillation Systems” in 1976. Some of his work is published in “Optimum Design of Plate Distillation Columns”, Sargent and Gaminibandara, Optimization in Action, Academic Press, 1976. He has written a number of technical publications.
The pioneering creations at Imperial College led to the emergence of several commercial process simulators.
Gamini Bandara left the academic career to join the industry in 1981. He has authored a number of software for process simulation, thermophysical property prediction, blowdown analysis and pipeline simulation.