Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating Family A family of products products to model model process heat heat exchangers exchangers —from cost cost optimized optimized designs to rating and simulation Heat exchangers can comprise up to 30% of capital equipment and impact 90% of the energy used in a petrochemical process. Major savings are available by implementing best practices with the Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating (Aspen EDR) product family.
Aspen Shell & Tube Tube Exchanger: Thermal modeling for shell & tube, double pipe, • Reduce exchanger costs by
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10-30% • Improve reliability and process uptime • Improve engineering efficiency by up to 30% • Superior technology backed by Aspen HTFS research
Aspen Plate Exchanger: Thermal modeling for gasketed plate and frame, brazed plate, and welded plate exchangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 5 Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger: Thermal modeling for air cooled and other tubular cross flow exchangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 6 Aspen Shell & Tube Tube Mechanical: Mechanical design for shell & tube exchangers and basic pressure vessels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 7 Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger: Thermal modeling of multi-stream plate-fin heat exchangers made from brazed aluminum, stainless steel, or titanium . . . . . . page 8 Aspen Fired Heater: Thermal modeling of radiant and convection sections of oil or gas fueled fired process heaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 9
The Challenge: Simplifying the Engineering Lifecycle Conventional Convention al workflow for the design of heat exchangers requires requires manual data transfer from process engineer to thermal and mechanical experts to a cost estimator. The design cycle involves several iterations and is prone to data transcription errors. This approach also excludes the process engineer’s visibility into problem details, making it difficult to investigate multiple process scenarios to arrive at a fully optimized process.
The AspenTech® Solution: Minimize Capital Cost and Improve Process Design The Aspen The Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating (EDR) product family provides the industry’s most comprehensive suite of programs for heat exchanger design, simplifying the engineering cycle through a single, integrated framework. Companies deploying these solutions reduce capital equipment cost and engineering man-hours, optimizing the operation of their processes.
Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating Family Integrated Solution Delivers Proven Results The Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating product family integrates rigorous process models with the industry’s most comprehensive heat exchanger modeling capabilities. Key business-enhancing benefits include:
• Optimized equipment designs results in typical savings of 10-30% on the equipment cost per heat exchanger.
• Integration with Aspen Plus® and Aspen HYSYS®. Identifies areas to reduce energy, capitol and operational costs, with potential savings in the millions.
• Increased engineering efficiency. Emphasizes fast-track front-end engineering through fully integrated tools for process design.
Aspen Simulation
Air Cooled Exchanger
Shell & Tube Exchanger
Plate Exchanger
Fired Heater Plate Fin Exchanger
Integration Reduces Errors, Engineering Manpower and Capital Equipment Costs
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Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating Family Aspen HTFS® Research Network Aspen HTFS Research comprises both on-going experimental study and expert analysis to develop AspenTech’s proprietary theoretical models and correlations, ensuring your exchangers are designed to the highest degree of accuracy. Customers may license access to the Aspen HTFS Research Network to validate their design practice against documented methods, models and source data.
Best-in-Class Physical Properties Methods and Data The Aspen EDR product family accesses the world’s largest database of pure component and phase equilibrium data for conventional chemicals and electrolytes. The database is regularly updated from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which ensures easy access to the best available experimental property data. Accurate transport properties and phase equilibrium data are essential to accurate exchanger design and simulation.
Wide Range of Applications The products facilitate the full range of practical process applications for a wide range of exchanger types including: shell & tube, double pi pe, multi-tube hairpin, air coolers, economizers, plate and frame, plate fin, and fired heaters from conceptual design to operational troubleshooting. This flexibility allows process streams to be single phase, boiling or condensing vapors, single component or any mixture with or without noncondensable gases in any condition.
Common User Interface All six products in the Aspen EDR product family operate within a common user interface which automates data transfer from one program to another, allowing engineers to compare the advantages of different exchanger types. Access to AspenTech’s world class property package with more than 25,000 components and 35+ vapor equilibrium methods is accessible in each program. Aspen EDR product family uses the power and flexibility of the Microsoft ® Windows environment, allowing you to fully explore unit geometry and performance detail. Products support “drag & drop” interfacing with Microsoft Excel® as well as high-level communication with other software and the programs are tightly integrated with Aspen Simulation Workbook, providing easy and robust case studies within Microsoft Excel.
Meeting the Heat Transfer Needs of Process Engineers, Thermal Experts, and Fabricators Function
Benefit
• Common Aspen EDR user interface
• Ease of use reduces the need for training
• Design optimization (cost-based)
• Reduce equipment costs by up to 30% or more
• Run-time integration with Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS
• Overall process optimization and improved process reliability
• Access to the world’s largest property package
• More dependable results and process consistency
• Aspen HTFS Research backed methods
• High degree of accuracy
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Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger, Aspen Plate Exchanger, and Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger, Aspen Plate Exchanger, and Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger enables optimum design, rating and simulation of their respective exchangers for both the expert and casual user. High level run-time integration with Aspen Plus and/or Aspen HYSYS enable engineers to rigorously model heat exchanger operation and identify capital saving opportunities in the context of the overall process.
Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger Features
Output
• All TEMA style vessels
• Optimization path that identifies the most economical
design selection, possible alternative designs, and
• Bi-directional interface with Aspen Shell & Tube
controlling design constraints
Mechanical
• Extensive warning and error reporting identifies
• Run-time integration with Aspen Plus & Aspen HYSYS
potential operational problems
• Design, rating, simulation, and find fouling calculation
• Summary of exchanger thermal-hydraulic performance
modes
• Fully completed TEMA-style data sheet
• All common applications including knockback condensers, flooded evaporator, kettles, falling film
• Interactive tube layout and setting plan drawings
evaporators, thermosiphons, multi-shell feed-effluent
• Comprehensive incremental output
trains
• Vibration analysis (proprietary HTFS and TEMA
• Double-pipe and multi-tube hairpin exchangers
methods)
• Multi-shell capability with no practical limits on shells
• Conceptual cost estimating, customized to your own
labor and material costs
• Plain, low finned, or longitudinally finned tubes and general tube side and shell side enhancement
• Extensive graphing capabilities
methods
• Thermosiphon stability checks and flow pattern
• Single, double, and triple segmental baffles, no tubes
evaluation
in window, rod baffles, and unbaffled exchangers • Proper handling of fluids with two immiscible liquid phases • Background ASME mechanical design for more accurate sizing, costing, and weight calculation
Program Results Include a Setting Plan & Interactive Graphical Tube Sheet Layout 4
Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger, Aspen Plate Exchanger, and Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger
Aspen Plate Exchanger Features • Run-time integration with Aspen Plus
• Double banking
• Up to 5 passes for either hot or cold streams
• Conceptual cost estimate
• Co-current or counter-current flow
• User supplied Colburn j and friction factors to model special proprietary plate types
• Evaluates flow maldistribution risk
• Database of commercially available plates from 3
• Handles non-Newtonian fluids
leading suppliers
• Proper handling of fluids with two liquid phases
Plot Size is Shown in the Plate Exchanger Diagram
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Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger, Aspen Plate Exchanger, and Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger
Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger Features
Output
• Supports three calculation modes: – Design – optimizes the selection based on capital
• Optimization path identifies the most economical
and operating costs
design selection considering capital and operating cost
– Check (Rate) – determines if a given exchanger has
• Extensive warning and error reporting
sufficient area to achieve a specified duty
• Summary of exchanger thermal-hydraulic performance
– Simulation options – multiple simulation options for
• Detailed tubeside, X-side and nozzle pressure drops
prediction of inlet/outlet temperatures, mass flows,
• X-side installation and fan noise data
or process fouling
• Fully completed API-style data sheet
• Run-time integration with Aspen Plus & Aspen HYSYS
• Interactive tube layout drawing and setting plan
• Tube side condensing or boiling heat recovery,
drawings for API-type units
de-humidification, air cooled and other tubular crossflow exchangers, air conditioning, charge air coolers,
• Comprehensive incremental output
A-frame and V-frame configurations
• Extensive graphing capabilities
• X-side flow and thermal duty operating point for a defined fan performance curve • Multiple tube, high fin and header types • Up to 50 passes in simple and complex arrangements • Bundle size: Two to 100 rows, with multiple bundles per bay and multiple bays per unit • Draught: forced, induced, no fans • Fouling: standard resistance or tubeside as a function of velocity, temperature, quality, phase or length; X-side as a function of row • Automated handling of condensation with immiscible liquids • Weight and budget cost estimates
The Program Automates the Design Optimization for CAPEX and OPEX
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Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical provides a complete mechanical design package that greatly improves engineering efficiency in exchanger design. It provides a two-way interface to AspenTech’s thermal design p rogram, automating transfer of information and minimizing costly rework. It is the only program that optimizes the design of all mechanical components, producing detailed code calculations, customized cost estimates, detailed drawing package, and complete bill of materials.
Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical Features • Expansion joints: Flanged only, flanged and flued,
• Calculation modes: Design, rating
various types of bellows
• Codes and standards supported: ASME Section VIII,
• Graphics: Fully dimensioned setting plan, tubesheet
Div. 1, EN13445, CODAP, AD Merkblätter, ASTM, DIN,
layout, and detailed component drawings
AFNOR, TEMA Classes B, C, & R
• Supplemental calculations: Vertical and horizontal
• Material databases: ASME, DIN, CODAP, EN, JIS • Customized costing databases: Company operating,
vessel support analysis (Zick), minimum design metal
material, and welding standards, labor efficiencies,
temperatures, simultaneous internal/external pressure
material costs
design, analysis of thermal expansion operature cases, nozzle loads per WRC 107/537, HEI and TEMA-RGP-
• Incorporates all TEMA exchanger types
RCB-10.7, maximum allowable working pressures, material cladding, wind and seismic loads • Handles up to 13 simultaneous load cases
Bi-directional Integration Allows for Simultaneous Optimization of Both Thermal & Mechanical Designs
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Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger Plate-fin heat exchangers are critical to many cryogenic gas separation processes and are increasingly found in many processing plants. Significant capital and operational savings can be realized with the high thermal effectiveness provided by this technology. Plate-fin exchangers can handle many process streams in a single exchanger, providing a high degree of thermal integration. This minimizes consumption of primary energy and benefits modular construction and pl ant layout. The materials of construction used for plate-fin exchangers are lightweight, provide highly efficient heat transfer, and permit low-temperature operating conditions. Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger draws on AspenTech’s deep heritage and leading technology to offer precise and flexible modeling of today’s most challenging exchanger configurations.
Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger Features
Thermal Output
• Run-time integration with Aspen HYSYS
• Summary of exchanger performance
• Simple layer-based geometry specification
• Exchanger diagram and temperature graphs
• Calculation modes include design, stream-by-stream
• Temperature and vapor quality profiles along the
simulation, layer-by-layer simulation, or checking
exchanger for all process streams
• Up to 20 process streams
• Comprehensive information on pressure drop including
details of losses in nozzles, headers, and distributors
• Co-current and counter-current flow with any complexity of exchanger inlet and outlet geometry
• Fin performance data calculated by the program
• Simple and multi-pass cross flow
• Extensive calculation of metal temperatures
• Core-in-shell (kettle type)
• Longitudinal thermal conduction
• Single-phase and two-phase calculations
• Detailed summary of thermosiphon calculations
• Checks for flow maldistribution
• Extensive analytical graphics for longitudinal, cross-
layer and inter-layer material temperatures
• Vertical or horizontal exchanger orientation • Plain, wavy, serrated, perforated and hardway fins • Exchanger, distributor, header, and nozzle pressure drop calculations • Multiple exchangers in series/parallel
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Aspen Fired Heater The sophisticated modeling of Aspen Fired Heater allows designers to explore a wide range of heater configurations. Aspen Fired Heater brings modeling flexibility and ease-of-use with full integration of firebox and convection section heat transfer combined with draft calculations. It offers the reliability and robustness of Aspen HTFS models for process heat transfer and pressure drop along with the well-stirred or long-furnace models for firebox radiation. Aspen Fired Heater simulations provide heater operators with insight into local process conditions, facilitating optimal operations and maximizing throughput and energy efficiency without compromising safety or reliability. It also allows users to examine local heat flux and tube metal temperatures in the firebox and convection section, thereby avoiding unstable flow regimes in two-phase.
Aspen Fired Heater Features
Thermal Output
• Run-time integration with Aspen HYSYS
• Overall heater thermal performance summary,
including details of the heat load and the thermal
• Combined modeling of firebox and convection section
efficiency of the unit
• Up to 10 process streams in a single heater
• Extensive warning and error reporting identifies
• Handles cylindrical and cabin fireboxes
potential operational problems
• Firebox well-stirred and long-furnace radiation models
• Overviews of thermal performance of each part of the
• Firebox wall tubes (vertical horizontal and helical coil)
heater, firebox, and convection section tube banks
• Central tubes and cell-type fireboxes
• Thermal overview of each stream in the heater
• Up to 9 convection tube banks and process streams
• Combustion information and fuel details, including
calculated flue gas composition for individual fuels and
• Supports plain or finned tubes
fuel mixtures
• Convection section tubes with high round fins, serrated
• Comprehensive incremental output, including local
fins, circular or rectangular cross section studs
temperatures, pressures, and heat flux
• Full process thermal and hydraulic calculations
• Radiation information including zonal analysis
• Combustion calculations for up to 4 fuels • Evaluation of local process conditions
Extensive Graphics Improve Ease of Use
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Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating product family offer state-of-the-art heat exchanger simulation and design based on over 40 years of industry-leading research. Our aim is to enhance the value of heat transfer solutions by providing the most integrated product offering across the widest range of technologies. This enables our customers to use the most advanced physically-based modeling, from unit design and overall process design, through to optimization and operational monitoring.
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