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The product names used in this catalog are updated to those introduced in aspenONE Engineering V9 (released in May 2016). For more detailed product descriptions and additional supporting collateral, please click on the product name in the left column. If you have access to the Internet, the link will direct you to the appropriate product page on AspenTech’s website www.aspentech.com.

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Aspen Adsorption

A comprehensive flowsheet simulator for the optimal design, simulation, optimization and analysis of industrial gas and liquid adsorption processes.

Aspen Adsorption enables process simulation and optimization for a wide range of industrial gas and liquid adsorption processes including reactive adsorption, ion exchange and cyclic processes such as pressure-swing, temperature-swing, and vacuum-swing adsorption. It is used to select optimal adsorbents, design better adsorption cycles, and improve general plant operations.

Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger

Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger enables designing and rating air-cooled heat exchangers for process applications.

Designing and rating air cooled exchangers using Aspen EDR provides optimized equipment designs. Air cooler simulation models and correlations are based on over 40 years of Aspen (HTFS) proprietary research. Capabilities include extensive tube layout drawings, graphing capabilities and design optimization for both capital cost and operating cost. By designing and rating air cooled exchangers using Aspen EDR users are able to save about 10-30% on their equipment cost.

Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger can also be used within the Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus simulation environment.

Aspen Basic Engineering

Delivers significant improvements in productivity, agility and time-to-delivery in basic engineering.

Aspen Basic Engineering (formerly ZYQAD) is proven on world-scale projects to deliver basic engineering packages faster and with fewer resources, promote agility and integrate global design teams. Using a central repository Aspen Basic Engineering allows easy data sharing and consistency and up-to-date diagrams and datasheets.

Aspen Batch Modeler

Aspen Batch Modeler combines reaction kinetics with conceptual design, analysis and optimization of batch processes resulting in reduction of batch times while ensuring product quality and production.

Aspen Batch Modeler is a comprehensive simulation tool for conceptual design, analysis, and optimization of batch distillation processes. Batch

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distillation simulation can be performed standalone using Aspen Batch Modeler, or as part of a larger flowsheet simulation within the Aspen Plus environment. An easy-to-use, workflow-oriented capability for chemists and engineers is available to identify reaction kinetics from experimental data and from Aspen Properties.

Aspen Batch Process Developer

Innovative recipe-based modeling technology for batch processes used for developing a process from early route selection to full scale manufacturing.

Aspen Batch Process Developer quickly evaluates process alternatives, generates material balances, performs cycle-time calculations and develops cost estimates during the early stages of process definition. It can be used to compare process alternatives in the laboratory, evaluate “make versus buy” decisions and select synthetic routes for new molecules.

Aspen Capital Cost Estimator

Aspen Capital Cost Estimator software is capable of generating AACE Class IV through Class II estimates for capital projects in the oil and gas, refining and chemicals industries.

Aspen Capital Cost Estimator is built on Aspen Icarus™ technology and is designed for use throughout the estimating lifecycle to generate both conceptual and detailed estimates. Based on highly scalable engineering models of process equipment, ACCE accurately predicts total installed costs of process equipment and associated bulks, instrumentation, electrical, and civil. It can also be used with Aspen Process Economic Analyzer to enable companies to leverage detailed estimating knowledge into engineering process evaluation and business decision analysis.

Aspen Chromatography

Aspen Chromatography is a comprehensive simulation software for batch and continuous chromatographic processes, compatible with both Aspen Plus and Aspen Plus Dynamics.

Aspen Chromatography allows engineers and scientists to model and understand the separation and purification processes normally found in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, fine chemical, and food product businesses.

Aspen Custom Modeler

Aspen Custom Modeler is a software platform for creating unique process and equipment simulations to suit custom needs.

Aspen Custom Modeler lets you quickly create rigorous models for process equipment -using an easy-to-learn task language. These can be used inside Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS flowsheets or linked to Excel via Aspen Simulation WorkbookTM

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Aspen Distillation Synthesis

Simplifies the synthesis of complex non-ideal distillation systems

Aspen Distillation Synthesis enables rapid conceptual design of distillation schemes for the separation of chemical mixtures with non-ideal vapor-liquid equilibrium. Engineers and chemists can use Aspen Distillation Synthesis to reveal the limits of feasible separations for individual columns and to design advanced distillation schemes for the separation of such mixtures.

Aspen Energy Analyzer

Aspen Energy Analyzer is a powerful conceptual design package for performing optimal heat exchanger network design.

Aspen Energy Analyzer, working in concert with flowsheet simulators like Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus, provides an easy environment to perform optimal heat exchanger network design and pinch analysis.

The same Aspen Energy Analyzer technology is available within the Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus environments, known as Activated Energy Analysis, providing an easy and automated energy optimization workflow

Aspen Fired Heater™

Aspen Fired HeaterTM is a simulation and rating program for troubleshooting process furnace operational performance to maximize efficiency or identify potential for tube burnout or excessive coking.

Aspen Fired Heater is used to model a complete fired process heater system, including both radiant and convection sections.

Aspen Fired Heater can also be used within the Aspen HYSYS simulation environment.

Aspen Flare System Analyzer

Aspen Flare System Analyzer can be used to design, rate and debottleneck flare and vent systems.

Aspen Flare System Analyzer enables engineers to perform steady-state design, rating or debottlenecking of single or multiple flare and vent systems. The program can calculate minimum sizes for new flare systems or evaluate alternatives to remove bottlenecks in existing relief networks. Aspen Flare System Analyzer can also be used to identify potentially dangerous relief scenarios during design phase or current operational scenarios. Further users can complete acoustically induced vibration (AIV) analysis with this tool.

Aspen Flare System Analyzer is integrated with Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus simulation and is capable of importing stream information as well as Pressure Safety Valve information.

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Aspen HTFS Research Network™

A comprehensive reference to the science and technology supporting the Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating suite of thermal design programs

The Aspen HTFS Research Network™ provides online access to comprehensive references to heat exchanger theory and practice, detailed derivation and comparisons of design methods, validation of design procedures, description of the technical methods used by the Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating thermal suite of products, and over 40 years of HTFS research. HTFS Research Reports are available, at no additional cost, to all users of Aspen EDR, Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS Versions 8.8 and upwards.

Aspen HYSYS

The energy industry’s leading process simulation software, used by the world’s leading oil & gas producers, refineries, and engineering companies to optimize process design and operations.

Aspen HYSYS is a market-leading process modeling tool for conceptual design, optimization, business planning, asset management and performance monitoring for oil & gas production, gas processing and , petroleum refining industries. Aspen HYSYS has a broad array of features and functionalities that address the process engineering challenges of the energy industry, including specialized capabilities in the area or gas dehydration, acid gas cleaning and LNG making it the best choice for modeling and optimization of hydrocarbon processes from wellhead to sales point.

Aspen HYSYS Crude™

Enhanced crude oil simulation capabilities.

Aspen HYSYS Crude characterizes the hydrocarbon fluid by determining the hypothetical components that make up the oil and predicts their thermophysical and transport properties.

Aspen HYSYS Dynamics Run-Time

Aspen HYSYS Dynamics Run-Time allows customers to deploy and use Aspen HYSYS Dynamics models in a restricted run-only environment. Its key targeted application is the Operator Training Simulator (OTS) market, but it can also be used for on-line applications. It works with Aspen OTS Framework.

Aspen HYSYS Dynamics™

Aspen HYSYS Dynamics enables dynamic simulation of oil & gas, gas processing, petroleum refining, and other industry processes within the Aspen HYSYS environment.

Aspen HYSYS Dynamics extends Aspen HYSYS steady-state models into dynamic process models, enabling design and verification of process control schemes, safety studies, relief valve sizing, failure analysis, and

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development of startup, shutdown, and operating mode changes.

Aspen HYSYS Offline Optimizer

Optional optimization algorithm available for use with Aspen HYSYS.

Aspen HYSYS Offline Optimizer is an advanced algorithm for optimization based on third party technology. It provides a tool for both design optimization and online or offline performance monitoring and optimization applications within the plant.

Aspen HYSYS also supports a SQP optimizer (part of Aspen HYSYS standard functionality) and an Equation Oriented-based Aspen Plus Optimizer.

Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining™

Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining layers powerful features onto Aspen HYSYS to simplify and improve petroleum refining simulations.

Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining is based on the well accepted Aspen HYSYS interface. Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining streams are driven by Aspen Assay Management (a shared component with Aspen PIMS) to support an extensive set of stream petroleum properties. Complex multi-unit simulations can be quickly configured incorporating key conversion units from a complete set of all major refinery reactor models and associated fractionation.

Aspen HYSYS Upstream Dynamics

Aspen HYSYS Upstream Dynamics enables simulation of transient multiphase flow of oil, water, and gas in wells and pipelines.

Aspen HYSYS Upstream Dynamics enables dynamic modeling of oil & gas production processes through the integration of transient pipeline networks with processing facilities. The product includes a hydraulics subflowsheet with 2 phase and 3 phase transient solvers for modeling branched and looped networks.

Aspen HYSYS Upstream™

Aspen HYSYS Upstream provides methods and techniques for handling petroleum fluids and brings together the disciplines of petroleum and process engineering. Production field data can be input directly in the stream, or in the PVT Environment which provides access to third party tools that can be separately purchased and linked to HYSYS to create an asset-wide model from the reservoir to the back end of the facility. The pipe segment unit can use pressure drop correlations from TULSA consortium.

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Aspen In-Plant Cost Estimator

Aspen In-Plant Cost Estimator is cost estimating software for small capital and maintenance projects in chemicals, oil & gas, refining and other process industries.

Aspen In-Plant Cost Estimator is a powerful economic project management tool for in-plant capital and maintenance projects where an existing process or facility infrastructure is in place.

Aspen Model Runner™

Deploy models securely and more cost effectively.

Aspen Model Runner enables model authoring engineers to deploy their Aspen Custom Modeler based models to a wider range of users at reduced costs while simultaneously protecting intellectual property contained within the model.

Aspen OnLine

Aspen OnLine enables the online execution of Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen EDR, Aspen Utilities or Aspen Custom Modeler models for real-time operations support.

Aspen OnLine enables closed loop real-time optimization (CLRTO) with Aspen Plus Equation-Oriented (EO) models. The integration between the optimizer and Aspen DMCPLUS is seamless. At the end of each optimization cycle, optimized setpoints are communicated to Aspen DMCPLUS automatically. Aspen OnLine is also a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE Advanced Process Control applications.

Aspen OTS Framework

Aspen Operator Training Simulator Framework is used to configure and build Operator Training Simulator applications based on Aspen HYSYS Dynamics, Aspen Plus Dynamics, or Aspen Custom Modeler.

AspenTech has a rich heritage in the Operator Training Simulator (OTS) market and offers a single integrated platform for Process Training and Operator Training Simulators using best-in-class software components. This technology is used by a network of AspenTech partners to build and deploy Process Training and OTS applications for joint customers.

Aspen Plate Exchanger

Aspen Plate Exchanger software is a single solution for the design, checking, and performance simulation of gasketed, welded, or brazed plate heat exchangers.

Aspen Plate Exchanger models and correlations are based on more than 40 years of Aspen HTFS proprietary research, providing the user with assurance of reliable designs. . This includes gasketed plate & frame, welded, or brazed plate of the type used for general heating and cooling duties, including vaporization and condensation. It automates the plate exchanger design optimization process, allowing for cost savings of up to

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30% or more. It can be used standalone by the thermal specialist for exchanger design or as an integrated product with AspenTech’s steady-state process simulation program, Aspen Plus.

Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger

Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger is the latest generation of thermal design software for the design, simulation, and rating of plate-fin exchangers (multi-stream).

Plate-fin heat exchangers are vital to the profitable operation of many modern gas processing applications. Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger performs a detailed simulation of multi-stream plate-fin heat exchangers made from brazed aluminum, stainless steel or titanium. It can be used standalone by the thermal specialist for exchanger design or as an integrated product with AspenTech's steady-state process simulation program, Aspen HYSYS.

Aspen Plus

Aspen Plus is the industry’s leading process simulation software for the Chemical industry. Aspen Plus is a comprehensive chemical process modeling system, used by the world’s leading chemical and specialty chemical organizations, and related industries to design and improve their process plants. Aspen Plus provides the widest array of tools to construct and optimize process models including best-in-class physical properties, ability to handle solid, liquid, and gas processes, advanced electrolytes and equation-oriented (EO) modeling mode.

Aspen Plus Dynamics

Aspen Plus Dynamics allows the creation of powerful dynamic simulations, starting with steady state models, for better analysis of plant behavior and safety.

Aspen Dynamics extends Aspen Plus steady-state models into dynamic process models, enabling design and verification of process control schemes, safety studies (e.g., pressure relief), relief valve sizing, failure analysis, and development of startup, shutdown, rate-change, and grade transition policies.

Aspen Polymers

Aspen Polymers is a market leading first-principles polymer modeling technology for accurate and reliable simulation and optimization of polymer processes.

Aspen Polymers is fully integrated with industry-standard simulators including Aspen Plus, Aspen Dynamics, and Aspen Custom Modeler. Aspen Polymers includes the most comprehensive set of polymerization kinetic schemes available on the market. Built-in kinetics include step-growth condensation, free radical (bulk/solutions), emulsion polymerization, Ziegler-Natta/metallocene polymerization, ionic polymerization, and power law for polymers. User-defined reactions can

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be included to account for new or unusual chemistries.

Aspen Process Economic Analyzer

Aspen Process Economic Analyzer is cost estimating software that provides CAPEX estimates and OPEX estimates for comparing and screening multiple process schemes. Aspen Process Economic Analyzer (APEA) is a powerful project scoping tool that enables process engineers to evaluate the economic impact of their process designs (including generation of overall investment cash flow curves to quantify the contribution of the plant or the owner’s business). APEA is most useful in the early phases of the conceptual design to compare competing technologies and/or evaluate alternative process configurations. It can expand unit operations from simulator output to equipment models using proprietary mapping technology, and calculate preliminary sizes for these equipment items.

APEA is presented as Activated Economics in Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus

Aspen Process Manual™

Aspen Process Manual is a unique collection of chemical engineering knowledge and information

Aspen Process Manual™ provides access to in-depth specialized information on process selection, design, optimization and troubleshooting of solids and separation unit operations not easily described by first principles thermodynamics. They can be used to improve productivity by accessing a web-based on-line library on bulk solids and slurry handling, crystallization, drying, gas cleaning, solid-liquid separation (including filtration and centrifugation), solvent extraction, and wastewater treatment. Other sections include instrumentation, property measurement, adsorption, comminution, granulation, and overall process design.

Available from inside Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, and Aspen EDR via aspenONE Exchange.

Aspen Properties

Aspen Properties is the industry standard for thermophysical properties modeling throughout the product and process lifecycle.

Aspen Properties provides state-of-the-art physical property methods, models, algorithms, and data that enables chemists and engineers to easily perform engineering calculations based on rigorous and proven thermophysical property models and data. It also makes possible the capture and deployment of consistent physical property data and knowledge across the enterprise.

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Aspen Properties is available as a desktop tool or as an Excel Add-in to enable properties calculations inside spreadsheets.

Aspen Rate-Based Distillation

Aspen Rate-Based Distillation extends the distillation model for more accurate simulation and maximum reliability over a wide range of operating conditions.

Aspen Rate-Based Distillation extends the functionality of the Aspen Plus RadFrac distillation model with second-generation rate-based technology, ensuring more accurate simulation predictions over a wider range of operating conditions. Aspen Rate-Based distillation is also available in the Aspen HYSYS column while using Acid Gas or ENRTL property package. Aspen Rate-Based Distillation uses state-of-the-art mass and heat transfer correlations to predict column performance, eliminating the need for efficiency factors or HETPs. This added degree of rigor is especially critical for modeling gas scrubbers, sour water strippers, azeotropic systems, reactive distillations, nitric acid absorption columns, narrow-boiling separations, and other highly non-ideal separation processes.

Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger

Aspen Shell and Tube Exchanger provides design and rating for all major industrial shell and tube heat exchanger equipment types and applications, including single-phase, condensation, and evaporation.

Aspen Shell and Tube Exchanger provides design, checking, & simulation of shell & tube, double pipe or multi-tube hairpin exchangers. The shell and tube heat exchanger models and correlations are based on more than 35 years of Aspen HTFS proprietary research, providing the user with assurance of reliable designs. Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger is available as a standalone program as well as from inside Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus environments.

Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical

Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical provides complete mechanical design or rating of shell & tube heat exchangers and basic pressure vessels.

When used in design mode, Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical optimizes the thicknesses of the majority of exchanger components including flanges, tubesheets, expansion joints, supports, cylinder thicknesses, and nozzle reinforcement. In rating mode, Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical determines if the component thickness for an existing exchanger are adequate for a given set of design temperatures and pressures.

Aspen Simulation Workbook™

Aspen Simulation Workbook allows engineers to deploy engineering models and automate conceptual design workflows using Microsoft Excel.

Aspen Simulation Workbook (ASW) provides easy and robust integration between AspenTech’s process simulators and Microsoft Excel, allowing

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you to deploy models to a wider range of users without writing a single line of code. It is tightly integrated with the Aspen Plus, Aspen HYSYS, Aspen Custom Modeler, and the Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating (EDR) product families.

Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus offers one click export functionality to export variables to ASW.

Aspen Utilities Online Optimizer

Aspen Utilities Online Optimizer allows optimization of energy performance in real-time to provide consistent and timely responses to process disruptions.

Aspen Utilities Online Optimizer provides advice on how to supply energy demands at the lowest cost by modeling process unit energy demands and utility equipment performance using real-time plant information. Optimization results are delivered to the operator in terms of specific changes that are needed. Aspen Utilities Online Optimizer is a bundle of Aspen Utilities Planner and Aspen OnLine.

Aspen Utilities Planner

Aspen Utilities Planner is a tactical and strategic advice system to improve utilities planning and site energy decisions

Aspen Utilities Planner uses production plans and schedules to develop a corresponding optimal plan for the purchase, generation, and distribution of utilities. Integration with site production schedules allows the production of tactical utilities plans and nominations to external utilities suppliers.

The library of models in Aspen Utilities Planner has been specially developed for utility consuming systems. Equipment blocks and process streams can be visually placed to provide utility diagrams.

aspenONE Drive

With aspenONE Drive, users can access Aspen Plus or Aspen HYSYS models form a web browser or share it with their colleagues by uploading them to the aspenONE Drive, installed in their company’s network.

Users can protect IP by allowing colleagues to search, view, and run models from the web without downloading them.

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Key Functionality in Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus

Acid Gas Cleaning

Acid Gas Cleaning in Aspen HYSYS uses rigorous rate-based calculations, considering the mass transfer resistance and column configurations, and specialized property packages to deliver predictive results. The mass transfer resistance is the rate limiting step at the VL interface, and simulating this effect results in superior modeling accuracy.

Model a large set of amine solvents (V8.3), a DEPG physical solvent (V8.6), and acid gas extraction with liquid treating (V9). Track key contaminants, sulfur species, stripping agents, and heat stable salts.

Aspen Assay Management

Aspen Assay Management is a shared feature between Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining and Aspen PIMS. The Assay Management functionality includes a library of hundreds of assays, the ability to import assay data in multiple formats, the ability to share assays directly with Aspen PIMS, and an easy-to-use interface for manual entry of assay data. The powerful characterization capabilities can fit or estimate over 140 property curves to assay data and advanced visualization capabilities allow for study and analysis of assays before using characterized results to define Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining streams.

Alkylation Unit(s)

Alkylation Unit(s) refers to two rigorous reactor models to simulate Alkylation processes: one for sulfuric acid-based alkylation and one for hydrofluoric acid-based alkylation process. These models can be used in the Aspen HYSYS flowsheets like any other unit operation. The models can be calibrated to plant data and used for general simulation, unit monitoring or to update Aspen PIMS sub-models for refinery planning.

BLOWDOWN Technology

BLOWDOWN software technology, developed by Doctor Graham Saville and Professor Stephen Richardson of Imperial College London, is now available within Aspen HYSYS. This validated technology has been used in hundreds of studies in the oil and gas and chemical industries to identify locations in a system where temperatures can decline dramatically during depressurization. Use this tool now in Aspen HYSYS to accurately determine where low temperatures form, helping to minimize project CAPEX, but more importantly improve safety of the plant.

CatCracker

CatCracker is a rigorous reactor model in the Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining reactor suite used to simulate a refinery Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC) unit.

CatCracker is based on a rigorous multiple lump reactor and regenerator system that is accessed from easy-to-use Aspen HYSYS-style interfaces. It accurately predicts yields and properties for a wide range of feedstocks

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and operating conditions. It is deeply and conveniently integrated into more complex flowsheets using standard Aspen HYSYS models and work processes, bringing high fidelity FCC modeling to a broader audience with its friendly Aspen HYSYS-based interface.

CatGas Hydrotreater

CatGas Hydrotreater refers to a pair of models in the Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining reactor suite that simulate the treatment of gasoline streams fed directly to the blending pool from other major process units, typically the FCC. The pair of models is comprised of a selective hydrogenation unit (SHU) designed to remove di-olefins and convert sulfides in order to clean the lighter part of the naphtha. The second unit of the pair is a hydro-desulfurization (HDS) unit designed to remove sulfur and other contaminants while preserving the octane number.

Column Analysis

Column Analysis in Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus (V9) includes an expansive set of hydraulic correlation for trays and packing as well as an interactive interface. Column Analysis allows you to view the whole column, identify any hydraulic issues, understand the operating range, and communicate your findings. With an intuitive interface, users can see how modifications in packing and trays change the hydraulic plots and the operating range of the columns.

Delayed Coker

Delayed Coker is a rigorous delayed coker model in the Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining reactor suite that can be fully calibrated and used for operations support and to update Aspen PIMS sub-models for improved optimization.

Hydrocracker

Hydrocracker is a rigorous model in the Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining reactor suite that simulates hydrocrackers and hydrotreaters consisting of reactor beds and associated elements such as recycle gas quench streams. Aspen HYSYS Hydrocracker is based on a rigorous, multiple-lump reaction system with over 150 components. Aspen HYSYS Hydrocracker is integrated into more complex flowsheets using standard Aspen HYSYS models and work processes, bringing high fidelity hydroprocessing modeling to a broader audience with its friendly Aspen HYSYS-based interface.

Isomerization Unit

Isomerization Unit offers a detailed kinetic model in the Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining reactor suite. It models various reactions such as isomerization, ring-opening, saturation, and more. Isomerization models can be used together in an Aspen HYSYS Flowsheet to represent lead and lag reactors.

Naphtha Hydrotreater

Naphtha Hydrotreater is a kinetic model in the Aspen HYSYS Petroleum

Refining reactor suite that can be used to model the hydro processing of naphtha streams to catalytic processes, such as the naphtha reformer or isomerization unit. Removal of olefins, sulfur, and other contaminants

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from naphtha streams to prevent poisoning and degradation of catalysts in downstream units can be easily simulated using the Naphtha Hydrotreater model. The model can be calibrated to plant data and used for operations support and to update Aspen PIMS sub-models for improved optimization.

Reformer

Reformer is a rigorous reactor model in the Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining reactor suite that simulates a naphtha reforming unit producing reformate for gasoline blends in refineries. Aspen HYSYS Reformer is based on a rigorous reaction system with kinetic lumps similar to full gas chromatographs of the feed and reformate. It accurately predicts yields and properties resulting from different feedstocks and operating conditions. It is integrated into more complex flowsheets using standard Aspen HYSYS models and work processes, bringing high fidelity reformer modeling to a broader audience with its friendly Aspen HYSYS-based interface.

Safety Analysis

Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS offers the Safety Environment for sizing and documenting Pressure Relief Devices.

Use Aspen HYSYS or Aspen Plus to ensure that proper relief valve and rupture disk sizing methods are used throughout the overpressure analysis. Calculate relief loads and size and document relief device using industry accepted standards API 520, 521 implemented in Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus. Rigorously calculate fire scenario relief loads, consider multiple valves, and protect storage tanks in accordance with API 2000 standards.

Solids Modeling

Aspen Plus offers the ability to rigorously model chemical processes that involve both fluids and solids with Aspen Plus and the integration of solids models from SolidSim.

Solids process modeling in Aspen Plus supports rigorous descriptions of solids processing steps. Aspen Plus incorporates a comprehensive library of 20 solids unit operations (such as convective and spray dryers, granulators, crystallizers, fluidized bed reactors, crushers, gas/solid and liquid/solid separators, classifiers, and conveying systems) representing more than 70 pieces of equipment and can allow for a detailed description of granular solids. With conceptual solids models, modeling solids processing equipment is more accessible to everyone.

Sulsim™ Sulfur Recovery

Sulsim by Sulphur Experts has been used by top energy companies for rigorous sulfur recovery modeling for over 25 years. After the acquisition of this technology, AspenTech incorporated this software into Aspen HYSYS V9.

Sulsim Sulfur Recovery in Aspen HYSYS uses a specialized property package and a sub-flow sheet with 33 unit operations. The property package was constructed using empirical data provided by customers of

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Sulfur Experts in their consulting work. The Sulsim property package in Aspen HYSYS has been validated against plant data as well as the standalone Sulsim by Sulfur Experts.

Visbreaker

Visbreaker is a rigorous visbreaking reactor model in the Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining reactor suite that can be fully calibrated and used for operations support and to update Aspen PIMS sub-models for improved optimization. The Aspen HYSYS Visbreaker supports units with or without a soaker drum.