Products
Current version : 6.3.0.2325 released 10.15.2024
EnviroSim software products are used by engineering consultants, municipalities, and educational institutions around the world.
BioWin
The BioWin simulator is used world-wide in the analysis and design of municipal wastewater treatment plants. BioWin whole plant modeling provides process insights that reduce capital costs and operating expenses.
BioWin is a wastewater treatment process simulator that ties together biological, chemical, and physical process models. BioWin is used world-wide to design, upgrade, and optimize wastewater treatment plants of all types. The core of BioWin is the proprietary biological model which is supplemented with other process models (e.g. water chemistry models for calculation of pH, mass transfer models for oxygen modelling and other gas-liquid interactions). The BioWin model is owned, developed, and supported exclusively by EnviroSim and is the original “whole plant” model.
In addition to incorporating the most powerful model on the market, BioWin offers unsurpassed ease of use. Use the BioWin Album to capture your simulation project results with informative tables and charts. Customize your work environment to suit your needs with options such as default unit systems, flowsheet display preferences, and auto-save settings. Generate comprehensive reports automatically using BioWin’s Excel and Word reporting features.
BioWin’s online help system and tutorials provide comprehensive assistance to get you started. BioWin also comes with many pre-configured process flowsheet layouts that you can leverage to suit your project needs. You will also gain access to EnviroSim’s unparalleled customer support – our collective process modeling expertise is second to none.
BW Controller
The BW Controller augments BioWin models with a range of process control simulation capabilities commonly employed in wastewater treatment systems. BW Controller enables evaluation of improvements in online measurement technology, and development of more sophisticated control strategies.
Flexible and easy to implement, BW Controller simulates advanced control strategies and various controller types to provide process control insight into BioWin models. BW Controller helps evaluate recent improvements in online measurement and control technology and develop innovative and feasible control systems for sustainable wastewater treatment.
The BW Controller allows simulation of advanced process control strategies such as:
- Setting dissolved oxygen setpoint levels based on reactor ammonia concentration. The dissolved oxygen concentration itself is then controlled by manipulating the air flow rate.
- Control of mixed liquor recycle stream flow rate based on effluent nitrate concentration.
- Control mixed liquor suspended solids concentrations by adjusting wastage flow rate.
- Using pH measurements to adjust/switch air flow to control sidestream nitrogen removal processes.
- Change chemical dosing rates based on influent and effluent flows or concentrations.
- Adjusting on/off aeration periods to maintain alkalinity/pH levels.
A range of controller types can be selected:
- On/Off control
- High/Low control
- High/Low/Zero control
- Ratio control
- Proportional (P)
- Proportional-Integral (PI)
- Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID)
Printable Information
Do you need to print out some introductory information on BioWin?
The quickest way to do this is to use the links below to open or save documents we have prepared in Adobe PDF format. If you do not have it, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
What's New in
BioWin 6.3
This 7-page document details the new developments in BioWin 6.3 and is is available in printable format.
BioWin Pricing Summary
A document which summarizes BioWin and BW Controller perpetual and annual license information.
BioWin General Brochure
This 2-page brochure contains some introductory information and pictures of BioWin.
License Options
EnviroSim wastewater process simulation software packages are offered as a consecutive annual license or a perpetual license.
Annual License
Annual Licenses are on a consecutive annual basis and must be kept active. All active Annual Licenses receive free updates and on-going technical support.
Annual License Pricing
- US$2,500 plus shipping costs ($40-$90) for the first year, and US$2,000/year thereafter.
- The optional BW Controller module is an additional US$500 per year.
Cancellation Policy
- If an Annual License is cancelled, future renewals will start at the New Customer BioWin Annual License price (+$500).
- If payment arrangements are not made after 2 months past the renewal date, the license will be considered cancelled. Customers who allow licenses to lapse in this manner may be required to pay in advance on future orders.
- The BioWin USB Activation Key must be returned as per the end user license agreement
Perpetual License
One year of updates and technical support is included with each Perpetual License. The Perpetual License Upgrade provides the latest version of software and an additional year of technical support.
Perpetual License Pricing
- US$8,000 per copy plus shipping costs. The optional BW Controller module is an additional US$2000.
- BioWin users who exercise the Perpetual License Option may upgrade electronically to the latest version for US$3,300.
The basis for the Perpetual License scheme is as follows:
- Perpetual license;
- One year of telephone and e-mail software support
- Free software upgrades for one year from date of purchase.
- Manual (including tutorials) in electronic form - users can print their own.
- Subsequent software upgrades are US$3300 and are delivered electronically.
The basis for the UPGRADE scheme is as follows:
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- Must have a previously purchased Perpetual License
- One year of telephone and e-mail software support.
- Free software updates for one year after upgrade.
- Subsequent software updates will also be $3300
Academic License
EnviroSim offers individual or network academic licenses to accredited universities at considerable discounts. These licenses are intended only for the purposes of teaching and education.
Please contact EnviroSim for more information or to place an order
Academic License
The essence of the BioWin academic license is as follows :
- The software is used for educational purposes only.
- The software may be used by bona fide students and University employees for educational and teaching purposes only.
- The software may not be used to provide services (paid or un-paid) to municipalities or consulting engineers. Universities wishing to provide these services must purchase a commercial software license.
- In the event that the University or any of its representatives (students, staff, faculty members) wishes to use BioWin for "commercial" purposes (including contract research), then arrangements for the purchase of a commercial license must be made.
The intent is that academic licenses are used in the context of education. Use of the EnviroSim Academic License is specifically excluded for services or research (paid or unpaid) on behalf of, or for the benefit of: consulting engineers, owners and operators of wastewater treatment facilities, and water service companies.
Please contact us if you wish to place an order for an Academic BioWin License. A professor at your University will need to sign an Academic License Agreement Form, and payment is required in full before the order can be shipped.