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Petro-SIM® 7.7 is an advanced process simulation, optimization, and digital twin platform for engineers and safety specialists working across the refining, petrochemical, chemical, and process industries. Built on nearly 50 years of refinery and process engineering expertise, Petro-SIM 7.7 integrates AI/ML-enabled hybrid modeling with first-principles simulation within one platform. By combining engineering physics with machine learning, it aids in decision-making, while maintaining high-fidelity digital twins and optimizing large-scale operations across traditional and emerging energy systems. Users can apply accessible AI/ML within engineering workflows through the embedded ML Utility Hub to generate synthetic data and develop, train, and deploy hybrid models within the Petro-SIM environment and improve complex refinery process operations through an expanded optimizer library and new optimization algorithms. An expanded suite of reactor capabilities, including a new lube hydrocracker model, and enhanced physical property methods help engineers to model refinery units and integrated value chains with greater fidelity. This latest Petro-SIM release supports emerging energy markets, including bio-oil processing, electrolysis, and new decarbonization correlations while providing the functionality to support pyrolysis and biomass gasification modeling. Petro-SIM 7.7 provides the engineering foundation for process digital twins and KBC AcuityTM Process Twin Pro, a digital twin application that continuously monitors model health, identifies deviations from plant performance, and helps keep models current throughout their lifecycle. Together, they enable more accurate monitoring, optimization, and operational decision-making across refinery and petrochemical value chains.— KBC Advanced Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yokogawa Electric Corp., Walton on Thames, U.K.