Aspen Plus V11 : Model Your Solids Handling Processes

Explore Aspen Plus version 11, the latest release, and learn the fundamental features that remain consistent across versions while using Windows on a standard PC.

Use Aspen Plus to model chemical processing plants with flow sheet simulation, mapping unit operations and material and energy streams from raw materials to finished product.

Aspen Plus provides a thermodynamic foundation, data, and equipment models to simulate plant behavior and enable What-If analyses, design checks, and optimization through steady state and Aspen Plus dynamics modelling.

Aspen Plus is used by process and chemical engineers across the entire lifecycle, from concept development to plant operations, with applications in university research.

Learn to translate a chemical process into an Aspen Plus simulation by defining components, selecting a thermodynamic model, and building the flow sheet with unit operations, streams, and feed conditions.

Discover why solids handling matters in chemical industries and the key characteristics, including mean particle size, particle size distribution, density, moisture, and shape, using Aspen Plus to model solids.

Explore Aspen Plus v11 solids unit operation models that describe formation, size modification, separation, washing, drying, and fluidization of solids, with nine models in the model palette under solids tab.

Review eight solid separator models in Aspen Plus v11 for rating and sizing solids handling equipment. Include cyclone, venturi scrubber, centrifuge filter, rotary vacuum filter, hydrocyclone, fabric filters, electrostatic precipitators.

Demonstrates the solids handling crusher model in Aspen Plus, focusing on defining the feed particle size distribution and evaluating its effect on the product, using potassium chloride as an example.

Set up a solids handling flow sheet in Aspen Plus v11, assign a solids property method, and define potassium chloride as a solid with particle size distribution considerations.

Aspen Plus classifies solids as conventional or nonconventional based on molecular structure and reactivity; conventional solids, including salts and ice, participate in phase equilibrium, while nonconventional INSEE solids do not.

Aspen Plus v11 lets you define a solid using different conventions, creating separate component IDs, and determines whether it is in the aqueous phase based on activity and known structure.

Add the crusher to the flow sheet, set feed and exit streams, and input potassium chloride properties in the solids tab with a particle size distribution.

Select and configure Aspen Plus v11 stream classes to differentiate solid sub streams and mix solids with fluids, covering conventional and nonconventional solids with or without particle size distributions.

Explore predefined and customized sub stream classes in Aspen Plus, such as mixed, solid, NSC, NCP, SD, and BSD, accessed via set up solids folder, sub stream tab.

Explore how Aspen Plus models particle size distribution (PSD) with equidistant, geometric, logarithmic, and user defined measures, using PSD meshes, adjustable interval counts, and experimental data.

Define two particle size distributions for the crusher simulation and feed stream using a 0–10 mm PSD mesh with 10 intervals, and a normal distribution with median 5 mm.

Learn to calculate the outlet PSD using the select equipment method in Aspen Plus V11, applying KRISCHER-based, known disintegration power, and known outlet BSD approaches for crusher design.

Learn to interpret Aspen Plus v11 solids results by examining properties—D50, mean particle size, specific surface area (VSSA), and SMD—and how SMD relates to VSSA in fluid sized bed calculations.

Calculate outlet PSD with the select equipment method, compare feed and outlet streams, and note a median size reduction of 5.65 and 99% of outlet particles below 3 mm.

Calculate the crusher outlet particle size distribution using the combination power method in Aspen Plus V11, inputting bond work index, D50, and related distribution parameters.

Calculate the crusher outlet PSD using the specify outlet PSD method in Aspen Plus V11, configure sub stream and median, then compute power using bond work index and HB SD.

Introduce fluidized bed modeling in Aspen Plus V11, showing how to simulate a gas through a solid bed with a chemical reaction for drying, heating, and polymer production.

Explore how Aspen Plus models bubbling or circulating fluidized beds, covering particle environment, minimum fluidization velocity, transport and disengagement height, pressure drop, reaction handling, fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics.

Explore Aspen Plus fluidized bed modeling, splitting the bed into a dense bottom and a freeboard zone, with bubble diameter, rise velocity, gas velocity, and solid concentration profiles.

Model a dehydration process in Aspen Plus V11 using an air compressor and a fluidized bed reactor to dry wet aluminum trihydroxide into aluminum oxide with hot air.

Set the property method to solids, enter aluminum tri hydroxide and aluminum oxide as solids, add air and water, then run the property analysis and move to the simulation environment.

Set up the flow sheet in Aspen Plus V11 by adding a compressor and a fluidized bed reactor, and define key streams: air in, compressed air, alumina in, alumina out.

Enter input data for streams and centrifugal compressor in Aspen Plus; define air and aluminum hydroxide feeds, and set particle size distributions with an equidistant BSD and a GGS function.

Configure a fluidized bed reactor in Aspen Plus by defining geometry, bed characteristics, and the aluminum dehydration reaction; calculate pressure drop and minimum fluidization velocity.

Examine the fluidized bed reactor simulation results, including geometrical and operational variables, pressures, freeboard and disengagement heights, minimum fluidization velocity, and profile plots of solids and moisture.

Model dryer operation for solids, tracking moisture migration from wet potassium chloride to dry air in a kreiss flow configuration, and analyze outlets and solids temperature along the axial length.

Model solids handling in Aspen Plus V11 by setting up a dryer flowsheet. Define solid feeds, moisture content, and particle size distribution, then simulate a convective dryer with a compressor.

Analyze the dryer operation results in Aspen Plus, tracking moisture reduction from 25% to 3.1%, the evaporation rate of 17.5 kg/h, and the equilibrium solids moisture content indicating overdesign.

Model a crystallizer unit in Aspen Plus V11 to crystallize potassium chloride from a 26% w/w feed at 25 degrees celsius and 1 bar, using 300 kilowatts to evaporate water.

Model solids handling in Aspen Plus V11 by setting the solids property method, building the crystallizer flowsheet, and entering feed streams and solubility data for potassium chloride in water.

Advance your Aspen Plus skills to model more complex processes by exploring advanced features in our master class and Aspen Plus dynamics courses.

Simulate solids handling with a mixer, flash separator, and distillation tower to split an aqueous–organic mixture, partition acetone, and obtain near-pure streams with distillation models.

Explore liquid-liquid extraction principles, including partitioning between water and organic solvent, to separate methyl ethyl ketone from water using octanol, in single- and multi-stage configurations.

Learn to model and simulate a process in Aspen Plus V11, using plug flow and stirred tank reactors, rectifying and distilling columns, and reaction kinetics to optimize acetic anhydride production.

Model piping systems in Aspen plus, pipe bumps, valves and fittings; calculate pressure drops, friction factors, pump work, net positive suction head; assess cavitation and valve choking under operating conditions.

Learn how to determine the optimum economic pipe diameter by minimizing total annual cost, balancing fixed costs and operational costs under turbulent conditions using Aspen Plus iterations.

Design heat exchangers using aspirin, exploring shortcut and rigorous methods in Aspen Plus V11, and modelling a detailed Shalan tube heat exchanger with the exchanger feasibility panel.

Demonstrates the safety and energy features of a natural gas liquids process using the Aspen Plus NGL model, covering conditioning, separation, distillation, and pipeline-ready cooling and pressurization.