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Black Owl / What’s new

What’s new

Product and website updates from the Black Owl team. Release notes for each desktop build will be published here.

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Free engineering calculators and site search

Nine free calculators for early sizing, each showing its method, plus search across guides, tools and the glossary.

  • Pump power and head, heat exchanger area, horizontal drum sizing
  • Line sizing and pressure drop, tank volume, control valve Cv
  • Orifice plate flow, pipe insulation heat loss and a unit converter
  • Shareable links for every calculation
  • Process engineering glossary and a new guide: how to read a P&ID
  • Printable calculation sheets (print or save as PDF) and a free design basis template (Excel)
Open the tools →
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Resources: four practical engineering guides

A new Resources section with guides for chemical and process engineers working through early and basic engineering.

  • BFD vs PFD vs P&ID: what each process diagram is for
  • How to write a process design basis: a practical checklist
  • What is a heat and material balance? A practical guide
  • Equipment sizing basics: pumps, vessels and heat exchangers at the early stage
Read the guides →
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Early-access requests open

Engineers and teams can now request early access to Black Owl online, with a guided walkthrough from design basis to P&ID.

  • Early-access request form
  • Interactive workflow explorer on the home and product pages
Request early access →
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Black Owl early access: current capabilities

What the early-access platform covers today, from the first assumptions to engineering deliverables.

  • One connected project: design basis, components, block flow, process flow and piping and instrumentation diagrams in one project file
  • Block and process flow diagrams with numbered streams and routed lines
  • Material balance from the block flow diagram, with a status showing whether results are current
  • Thermodynamics settings: property package and mixing rule
  • Utilities with supply and return conditions; piping classes with rating, material and schedule by size
  • Equipment sizing from the process flow diagram, and equipment drawing sheets
  • Plant layout with floors and racks
  • Further modules: energy, PDS, equipment sketches, commissioning, stream data editor, PFD line list, run report, DEXPI and isometrics
  • Revision control and calculation freshness records
Explore the features →

BLACK OWL EARLY ACCESS

See Black Owl on your process

Join the early-access group for a walkthrough and a direct line to the developers.

Request early access ↗