Online Courses

Objectives

• Gain the practical skills and knowledge to begin modeling new and existing processes
• Learn some practical techniques for building and troubleshooting flowsheet simulations
• Reduce process design time by testing various plant configurations
• Determine optimal process conditions to improve current processes

Who Will Benefit

• New engineering graduates/technologists who will be using Aspen Plus in their daily work
• Process engineers doing process design and optimization projects and studies
• Plant engineers checking plant performance under different operating conditions
• R&D engineers and researchers using Aspen Plus for process synthesis

Course Detail

Starting with Aspen Plus

• Introduction to Aspen Plus
• Develop a working knowledge of the Aspen Plus Property Environment
• Develop a working knowledge of the Aspen Plus Simulation Environment
• Review major types of unit operation models
• Learn to enter Components and Property Method for a process flowsheet
• Build a process flowsheet and enter stream and block information in an Aspen Plus simulation
• Data input and running the simulation
• Convergence and presentation of flowsheet results
• Review the save options for Aspen Plus models
• Explore flowsheet handling techniques

Physical Properties

• Key considerations in choosing a property method and review physical property parameters
• Learn how to choose an appropriate Property Method to represent single chemical or mixture
• Finding Thermophysical Properties & Generating T-x-y Diagrams

Modeling of Pumps, Compressors, Valves and Pipes

• Modeling of pump
• Usage of curve data
• Modeling of compressor
• Modeling of pipes and valves
• Case study: How different schedule numbers and nominal diameter affect the pressure drop in a pipe.

Flash Separator Operation In Aspen Plus Software

• Problem analysis
• Building the simulation
• Adding a flash separator
• Case study

Heat Exchangers Operation In Aspen Plus Software

• Shortcut heat exchanger method
• Detailed heat exchanger method
• Heater modeling
• Case study

Custom Component Definition In Aspen Plus Software

• Problem analysis
• Requirements of custom components in Aspen Plus Software
• Defining custom component

Reactions And Reactors Modeling In Aspen Plus Software

• Introduce the various classes of reactor models available in Aspen Plus Software
• Production of Ethylene Acetate
• Define different type of reactions
• Model different type of reactors
• Usage of process manipulator option
• Case Study: Compare the performance of different reactors

Modeling Distillation Towers

• Modeling DSTWU (Distillation Tower)
• Modeling Radfrac (Distillation Tower)
• Column sizing
• Case study: Set up a methanol – water distillation tower model

Modeling Of Process Plant

• Apply acquired skills to build a Chlorobenzene production flowsheet
• Case Study: Create a flowsheet to model a chlorobenzene production process

Sensitivity Analysis

• Become familiar with referencing flowsheet variables (accessing variables), which is used in sensitivity analysis, design specifications and calculator block
• Use a sensitivity analysis to study relationships between process variables
• Case study: Use a sensitivity analysis feature

Design Specification

• Introduce the use of design specifications to meet process design requirements
• Case study: Use a design specification in the example flowsheet

Calculator Block

• Introduce use of Calculator block for flowsheet calculations
• FORTRAN code writing option
• Case study