Process Calculations and Simulations using Aspen HYSYS
What you'll learn
- Advantages of Aspen HYSYS.
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the program.
- Add and analyze streams.
- Construct and manipulate flowsheets.
- Convert existing simulations into templates.
- Install a template file into an existing HYSYS simulation.
- Use logical operations.
- Define enthalpy calculations.
- Recognize suitable locations for a recycle operation.
- Define compressor curves.
- Use the assay management capabilities.
- Define reactions and simulate reactors.
- Define a boiler and calculate its efficiency by 3 methods as well as understand how to do mass/energy balance.
- Use spreadsheet and case study tools within process flowsheet.
- Define a heater and calculate its efficiency by 3 methods as well as understand how to do mass/energy balance.
- Calculate the fuel savings from installation of an air preheater.
- Define a pump and calculate its efficiency by 5 methods as well as understand how to do energy balance.
- Define a compressor, calculate its isentropic efficiency by 4 methods and calculate its polytropic efficiency well as understand how to do energy balance.
- Define a turbine, calculate its isentropic efficiency by 4 methods and calculate its polytropic efficiency well as understand how to do energy balance.
- Define a heat exchanger effectiveness, calculate the heat loss, corrected LMTD, overall U, and Number of Transfer Units (NTU).
- Use a pipe segment unit operation.
- Identify the pumping system components and energy types.
- Calculate pipeline pressure drop using hand calculations and Aspen HYSYS.
- Use the column input expert and column property view menus to define and configure standard HYSYS column models.
- Review and interpret various outputs and results from the column models.
- Analyze the Degrees of Freedom (DOF) of different column templates
- Simulate a column with side operations.
- Make a heat integration between column and main flowsheet.
- Analyze hydrate formation conditions of various process streams around the dehydration process.
- Report amine loading values to judge the efficiency and viability of gas sweetening unit.
- Build a multi-flowsheet model for the simulation.
- Incorporate HYSYS-based heat exchanger rating calculations into an existing heat exchanger model.
- Use Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger (via Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating - EDR) to rigorously design and simulate a shell and tube heat exchanger.
- Use optimizer feature to find the operating conditions that will minimize or maximize an objective Function.
- Survey common result reporting techniques in Aspen HYSYS.
- Use Aspen Simulation Workbook (ASW) to integrate between Microsoft Excel and Aspen HYSYS.
Requirements
- Process and/or Operation and/or Energy Efficiency background
Description
The Aspen HYSYS Training Course is comprehensive to provide participants with the essential knowledge and hands-on skills required to effectively use the Aspen HYSYS software for process simulation and engineering analysis.
Aspen HYSYS is a widely-used process simulation tool employed by engineers in various industries, including oil and gas, petrochemicals, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and more.
During this training course, participants will delve into the process simulation and learn how to model, optimize, calculate efficiencies, and troubleshoot processes using Aspen HYSYS. The course will be delivered through a combination of lectures, practical exercises, and real-world case studies, ensuring participants gain a solid understanding of the software's capabilities and applications.
Course Main Outlines:
Aspen HYSYS,
Equipment Efficiency,
Distillation Towers,
Optimization.
تعتبر الدورة التدريبية شاملة لتزويد المشاركين بالمعرفة الأساسية والمهارات العملية المطلوبة للاستخدام الفعال للبرنامج لمحاكاة العمليات والتحليل الهندسي.
البرنامج عبارة عن أداة محاكاة عملية مستخدمة على نطاق واسع يستخدمها مهندسون في مختلف الصناعات ، بما في ذلك النفط والغاز والبتروكيماويات والكيماويات والأدوية وغير ذلك.
خلال هذه الدورة التدريبية ، سيتعمق المشاركون في محاكاة العملية ويتعلمون كيفية نمذجة وتحسين وحساب الكفاءات واستكشاف العمليات وإصلاحها. سيتم تقديم الدورة من خلال مجموعة من المحاضرات والتمارين العملية ودراسات الحالة الواقعية ، مما يضمن حصول المشاركين على فهم قوي لقدرات البرنامج وتطبيقاته.
Who this course is for:
- New engineering graduates/technologists who will be using Aspen HYSYS
- Process engineers doing process design and optimization
- Operation engineers checking plant performance under different operating conditions
- Operation engineers
- Oil refinery engineers
- Chemical engineers
- Petrochemical engineers
- Gas processing engineers
- Water treatment engineers
- Process engineers
- Energy efficiency engineers
- R&D engineers
Instructor
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 30 Reviews
- 93 Students
- 4 Courses
Industrial Experiences
* Have experience in petroleum refining (VDU, DCU, VRU, DHT, KHT) and petrochemical (Ammonia) industries in fields of operation, process, and energy efficiency.
Teaching Experiences
* Trainer in more than 14 training centers for operation, maintenance, and energy staff to work properly according to the standards provided.
Process Simulation Qualifications
* Certified Aspen HYSYS user from AspenONE.
* Experience with PFD, P&ID, Mechanical and isometric diagrams.
* Experience with the following simulation software:
(1) Aspen HYSYS steady state and dynamics,
(2) Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating,
(3) HTRI,
(4) Aspen Energy Analyzer,
(5) Aspen Simulation Workbook,
(6) Aspen Utilities Planner,
(7) KBC Petro-SIM.
Energy Efficiency Experiences
* Certified Energy Manager (CEM) from AEE.
* Experience in performing on-site energy efficiency audits.
* Experience with technical and financial analyses of energy conservation measures.
* Experience in energy load profile analysis, regression analysis, financial analysis, and energy modeling.
* Experience in writing, reviewing, and optimizing an Energy Management System (EnMS) according to ISO 50001:2018 and ISO 50006:2014.
Other Experiences
* Certified Competence Assessor (CCA) from OPITO and City & Guilds
* Certified PHA-HAZOP Leader from TÜV SÜD
* Certified LOPA Leader from TÜV SÜD
* Experience with:
(1) Microsoft software (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Teams),
(2) Simtronics DSS-100,
(3) AutoCAD plant 3D,
(4) Power BI,
(5) Python.
Education
Chemical engineering,
Cairo University,
Egypt