EFFECTS supports you in understanding the severity of accidental releases of hazardous chemicals. This proves valuable when identifying vulnerabilities in industrial processes.

Use EFFECTS results for data-driven project decisions, including complying with regulations, preventing the over-design of safety measures, designing safe operational processes, developing emergency response plans, and evaluating the impact of modifying existing facilities.

With more than 70 state-of-the-art models, 2200 chemical components included in the DIPPR® chemical database and customised mixtures, EFFECTS simulates a wide variety of scenarios, such as leaks and ruptures in pipelines, pressure valves, vessels and storage tanks, confined gas explosions, BLEVEs, drifting toxic clouds and jet-, pool-, rim-, bund-, or rooftop fires, just to name a few.

EFFECTS is designed to have a short learning curve and be configurable for both experts and occasional users. Its modern and intuitive user interface allows you to quickly determine the consequences of accidental releases. 

Easily export results to Google Earth with just a few clicks. This enhances result visualisation, making them easily understandable for both technical and non-technical professionals.

Save considerably on license costs and have full flexibility to use your license whether you are a specialised consultancy or multinational corporation.

EFFECTS includes functionality to support safe and regulatory-compliant energy transition initiatives. The models are extensively validated for analysing the hazards of new energy carriers, such as hydrogen and ammonia, against the latest research and scientific insights.

EFFECTS is an advanced yet user-friendly consequence modelling software tool to analyse the severity and impact of the release, dispersion, explosion, and fire of toxic and flammable substances in process industries. 

It calculates heat radiation from fires, overpressure from explosions, toxic concentrations, doses from dispersion clouds, and much more.

EFFECTS is known for its user-friendly interface and advanced modelling capabilities, which include …

EFFECTS can be used for a wide range of studies including (but not limited to):

• Consequence information for Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) studies (e.g., HAZID, HAZOP).
• Consequence information for QRA.
• Sensitivity analysis.
• Hazardous Area Classification (HAC).
• Emergency preparedness planning.
• Regulatory compliance.
• Facility siting and layout optimisation.
• New facility development or existing facility modification.
• Incident investigation.
• Other studies that require preliminary consequence evaluation.

EFFECTS presents consequences of Loss of Containment scenarios expressed in (among others) flow rates and release duration, flame dimensions and radiation levels, overpressure levels and gas concentrations, which are often a function of distance or X, Y location relative to its release coordinate.

The results from EFFECTS are presented in various formats, including numerical values, graphs, and contours. Various export formats are available to accommodate different needs, including Excel sheets (.xlsx), word documents, and shape files for the export of consequence contours. 

EFFECTS offers flexible licensing options, including standalone, network and cloud licensing. Please reach out to our product specialists through the contact form to assist you in determining the ideal solution tailored to your specific requirements.

EFFECTS is intended for Microsoft Windows 10 or above with 64-bit environment and needs a modern PC with no special requirements. To learn more about the installation procedures, please reach out to our technical specialists through the contact form.

Current customers can download EFFECTS from the Download Centre on the Software Downloads page.

For those who are not existing customers but are interested in trying EFECTS, we offer a free viewing demo of the software where you can explore the already calculated results for several scenarios, including tank pit fires, ammonia releases, gasoline pool fires, long pipeline rupture and LPG tank ruptures, BLEVE and dispersion.

Gexcon offers EFFECTS training course which can be delivered in-person or online.

This course is an introductory-level course which is tailored for new users or current users who have not yet attended the training course. It has a practical approach with the purpose of enabling participants to have the ability to use EFFECTS for their projects by the end of the course.

If you are a frequent user who requires an advanced-level course, please reach out to our product specialist through the contact form to discuss your requirements for the tailored course.

For introductory product-specific step-by-step tutorials, new feature videos and general tips and tricks, the EFFECTS Quickstart Training videos are available upon request. You can also read the available blog articles and watch on-demand webinars to learn about the functionalities available in EFFECTS.