[LEFT]Aspen Plus is a market-leading process modeling environment for conceptual design, optimization, and performance monitoring for the chemical, polymer, specialty chemical, metals and minerals, and coal power industries. Now, Aspen Plus is even easier to use with a completely redesigned user interface, enabling customers to design new processes, deliver new products to market and optimize production faster than ever before. Aspen Plus is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE® Engineering applications.
Enhanced user interface combining the proven capabilities of Aspen Plus with greater ease of use to help beginners, current and expert users become productive faster
- An easy-to-use interface leverages a Microsoft® look and feel for a rich and engaging user experience
- Distinct environments for configuring physical properties, and for building and running models enhances user productivity
- Workflow-specific and task-based ribbons provide easy navigation, enabling faster solutions to design and operations problems
- Streamlined, highly interactive and efficient workflows for conceptual design to model deployment to optimize performance
- A customizable multi-panel workspace with support for two monitors
- Streamlined plotting and analysis tools provide rapid access to data and results with visualization for easy understanding
- Quick access toolbar, continuous zoom and much more
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 — Aspen Properties®. Access more than 4 million experimental data points for over 24,000 pure components and 30,000 binary systems. 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, at a plant, in a conference room, from home, on the road - anywhere you can remotely access your corporate network.
Improved conceptual design workflow. Aspen Plus is integrated with AspenTech’s industry-leading sizing and cost analysis software and heat exchanger design software to streamline the overall design and analysis workflow. 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 for optimal performance. This convenient integration eliminates costly manual iterations and promotes more optimal designs based on rigorous cost estimates.
Scalability for large and complex processes. Aspen Plus 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, including Real Time Optimization (RTO) applications.
State of the art column internals calculations for flooding and pressure drop. Aspen Plus includes a library of more than 300 types of packing 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 accurately model rate-limited processes such as 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 and reactors in a rigorous manner.
Additionally, Aspen Plus enables users to identify azeotropes and residue curves which can help in the design and synthesis of non-ideal distillation columns.
Aspen Plus also provides 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.[/LEFT]
