Aspen Plus®
Conceptual design of chemical processes
What's New in 7.3
- On demand access to a variety of rich training content from within the software with Aspen Online Training
- Quickly locate and re-use models, plant data, and other engineering resources with Aspen Search
- Access experimental mixture property and phase equilibrium data for over 30,000 component pairs
- Greenhouse gas reporting for streams and process utilities
- Efficient methods to send simulation case data to:
- Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating
- Aspen Energy Analyzer
- Aspen Flare System Analyzer
- Improved integrated economic analysis:
- Use Aspen Process Economic Analyzer templates to ensure consistency
- Templates allow custom sizing and costing through Excel spreadsheets
- More detailed cost summary including rate of return and equipment weights
- New, customizable start page with Aspen Plus product news feeds
Aspen Plus is a market-leading process modeling tool for conceptual design, optimization, and performance monitoring for the chemical, polymer, specialty chemical, metals and minerals, and coal power industries. Aspen Plus is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE® Engineering applications.
Features
- Best-in-class physical properties methods and data. Aspen Plus includes the world’s largest database of pure component and phase equilibrium data for conventional chemicals, electrolytes, solids, and polymers. Regularly updated data from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ensures easy access to the best available experimental property data, enabling process engineers to save months of effort when developing chemical process models.
- Aspen Properties Mobile provides access to rigorous physical property calculations and data when and where you need it - at a customer site, in a conference room, from home, on the road - anywhere you can remotely access your corporate network.
- Improved conceptual design workflow. Aspen Plus has been tightly integrated with AspenTech’s industry-leading cost analysis software and heat exchanger design software. Process engineers can rapidly estimate the relative costs of proposed designs and make decisions based on capital and operating cost estimates using proven cost modeling technology. Key equipment such as heat exchangers and distillation columns can be rigorously sized or rated from within the simulation environment. The tight integration of design and costing software with process simulation eliminates costly manual iterations and promotes more optimal designs based on rigorous cost estimates.
- Scalability for large and complex processes. Aspen Plus’s unique Equation Oriented (EO) modeling capability and hierarchical flow sheeting lets you simulate even the most large scale and complex processes; even highly integrated processes with multiple recycles. Customers can build models spanning entire sites to find the globally optimal operating conditions.
- State of the art column internals calculations for flooding and pressure drop. Aspen Plus includes a library of more than 300 packings and 5 different tray types with parameters fitted for calculation of tray internals.
- Aspen Plus provides users with rate-based distillation technology which enables distillation calculations while accounting for rigorous mass transfer on trays or on packings. This technology has been used to model amines-based carbon capture and other separations.
- Greenhouse gas emissions report of carbon equivalents generated in the process or by consumption of process utilities. Annual carbon tax can also be calculated.
- Aspen Plus also enables users to model batch distillation in a rigorous manner.
- Additionally, Aspen Plus also enables users to identify azeotropes and residue curves which can help users to design and synthesize non-ideal distillation columns.
- Aspen Plus also provides users with a complete set of polymer thermodynamics methods and data, rate-based polymerization reaction models, and a library of industrial process models.
- Online deployment of models as part of an open-loop operator advisory system or in closed-loop, real-time optimization/advanced process control applications when used with Aspen Online Deployment™ and Aspen Simulation Workbook™.
- Workflow automation. Aspen Plus models can be linked to Microsoft Excel® using Aspen Simulation Workbook or Visual Basic® and used to automate the engineering workflow and deploy the model to a wider range of end users in the field.
- Aspen Plus Dynamics® is used for safety and controllability studies, sizing relief valves, optimizing transition, startup, and shutdown policies.
- Links to third-party tools. Aspen Plus includes links to several well-known tools including the OLI’s electrolyte package and Technip’s SPYRO ethylene cracker models.
Benefits
Aspen Plus is a proven, industry-standard solution with over twenty years of use in the field. Customers have recognized and reported:
- Up to $15M per year in incremental profitability from process optimization
- Up to $10M per year in capital savings resulting from improved designs
- Up to $1M per year of reduced labor costs from improved conceptual engineering workflow
Want to learn more? Click on any of the informational links above, talk to your AspenTech account manager, or send an email to AspenPlus.Advantage@aspentech.com.