Houston, TX March 8, 2009 - EPCON International and DDBST, GmhB received official approval for release of the GPA Data Bank at the section F committee meeting at GPA's annual convention in San Antonio, TX.

The GPA Data Bank, 5th Edition delivers over 37 years of GPA research data for immediate, productive use in process simulation tools.  Included is a completely re-mastered thermophysical property database with all GPA Research Reports and Technical Publications and powerful data fitting, correlation, and phase equilibrium software applications.

The GPA Data Bank is now over twice the size of previous versions and includes a significant amount of new VLE data for low-boiling hydrocarbons never before available in previous versions of the GPA Data Bank published by Penn State (1st Ed. - 1983, 2nd Ed. - 1990, 3rd Ed - 1993) and Oklahoma State University (4th Ed. -2000).

The GPA Data Bank, 5th Edition was jointly developed by EPCON International (developer of the popular API Technical Data Book and Engineer's Aide software) and DDBST (developer of the popular Dortmund Data Bank and co-founder of the UNIFAC consortium).  The result is a software solution that can be widely used by engineers within your organization with direct links to major process simulators to immediately improve your company's gas processing operations.

A technical paper on the GPA Data Bank 5th Edition was presented at the GPA annual convention by Todd J Willman, Director of Development, to announce this significant new product for wide use in the Mid-Stream Industry.