Aspen Plus - Getting Started!

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INTRODUCTORY COURSES

• Aspen Plus - Getting Started!

• Aspen HYSYS - Start modeling your first Chemical

BASIC COURSES (SPECIAL DISCOUNT for my students)

• Aspen Plus- Basic Process Modeling

• Aspen HYSYS - Basic Process Modeling

SPECIALTY COURSES (SPECIAL DISCOUNT for my students)

• Aspen HYSYS - Petroleum Assays and Oil Characterization

Simulation help engineers to model processes faster, easier and without losing considerable amount of resources such as money and time.

It helps to cover different scenarios in order to optimise existing processes or to design new ones.

It helps process engineer to understand current operation conditions as well.

Welcome to the course!

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1.Introduction to Aspen PLUS

2.Our Chemical Process!

3.Requirements for Simulation Setup (Property Environment)

4.The Flowsheet

5.Setting up the Simulation Environment, Streams and Unit Operation

6.Results and Analysis

7.Conclusion

8.Bonus Section!  

This will be our process! Please ensure to get to know it. The better you know your process (overall) the easier it becomes to simulate it.

Try to remember all unit operations, streams and important flow rates, given data and variables.

Good luck!

Selecting and filling up the component list. All reactants, products, intermediates must be present.

Selection of a good Method Model. Avoid components which are not well modeled with the selected fluid package. Method Assistant is very useful here!

What is a flowsheet, and how to use it.

Why do we need a flowhseet?

Manipulation of the Flowsheet:

• Adding Unit Operations
• Adding Material and Energy streams
• Moving
• Labeling
• Rotating
• Deleting
• Copy and Pasting

The model palette and how to use it. Which unit operations are present.

The Heater can be used for "heating" or "cooling". With an inlet/outlet of material stream. A heat/energy stream is no 100% required to set up this unit operation.

Choose the "Flash2" in order to simply make a flash separation. Liquid and Vapor separate due to the equilibrium condition.

Setting up a Reactor. It is based on the stoichiometry coefficients given in the Specifications.

The valve is used to decrease pressure or decrease flow rate.

How to set up the distillation column. Required Steps to setting up the RadFrac

A Compressor is used to increase pressure of a gas stream. It takes in energy via electricity, converts to mechanical, and then to pressure head.

The pump is used to move liquids or increase pressure in liquids

Once all information required is inputted, we can run the simulation. Wait for no errors/warnings/debugging

Getting final results, overview of duties, streams, compositions, etc...

A small analysis on the simulation results. Verifying the final process. Some final recommendations

You need the simulation? Or maybe the workbook? Or also the excel spreadsheet? Get this downloaded here!

Final conclusions on the course, warping-up the course!