Online Courses

Objectives

• Learn to build, navigate and optimize process simulations using Aspen Hysys
• Learn the efficient use of different Hysys functions to build steady state process simulations

Audience

• New engineering graduates/technologists who will be using Aspen Hysys 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 Hysys for process synthesis
• Engineers preparing for the Aspen HYSYS User Certification exam

Benefits

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Build and optimize steady state simulation models
• Define and manage crude oil assay information and properties
• Generate rigorous heat exchanger models from Aspen HYSYS to produce the most optimal designs at the right economics
• Model pipeline networks and mitigate the risk for flow assurance issues
• Design, revamp and debottleneck process equipment
• Troubleshoot common convergence problems and use best practices

Pre-requisites

• A background in chemical/process engineering, oil/gas industry, or in petroleum refining

Key Features

• Live, online expert-led sessions, hands-on workshops and interactive online discussion
• Get internationally recognized certificate
• Life time access to video recording and study material

Course Detail

Process Simulation Overview

• Identify the benefits of process simulation
• Describe the capabilities of Aspen HYSYS
• Introduce the Aspen HYSYS graphical user interface
• Workshop: Introduce basic concepts necessary for creating simulations in Aspen HYSYS

Properties Environment

Component List

• Create a component list
• Identify the different component databases available
• Add hypothetical components

Physical Property Package

• Define a fluid package
• Identify the different property methods databases available
• Assign component list to specific property method

Petroleum Assays

• Identify the methods available in Aspen HYSYS for characterizing crude assay
• Necessary steps to characterize a crude assay
• Recognize the differences between the two methods available for characterizing crude assay
• Workshop: Use the Assay Management tools to characterize a crude assay

Simulation Environment

Unit Sets

• Recognize the default unit sets
• Customize unit sets

Manipulate Flowsheet

• Connect material streams to unit operations
• Illustrate flowsheet object color scheme
• Display stream labels
• Configure and customize user preferences, options and default settings
• Illustrate case management options
• Create and install a template file
• Workshop: Build and analyze a propane refrigeration loop and incorporate multiple flowsheet architecture

Mathematical / Logical Operations

• Identify various logical operations available
• Optimize the simulation by using adjust operation and other logical operations
• Workshop Gas Dehydration (O&G Focus): Model a typical gas dehydration unit and study gas saturation, hydrate formation conditions, and unit operation performance throughout the model

Unit Operations

• Separation Operations
• Identify the key differences in the three separator operations
• Illustrate pressure drop specifications across the vessel
• Specify and calculate heat loss in the vessel
• Configure and calculate the carry over model in separator operations
• Define and specify geometry and orientation of vessel
• Configure a component splitter to separate component steams based on split fractions specified

Heat Transfer Operations

• Identify various heat transfer operations
• Determine parameters required to solve a cooler
• Describe the different heat exchanger models
• Analyze the performance of the heat exchanger
• Identify the heat transfer operations that can be integrated with Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating (EDR) tools
• Work Shop: Perform rigorous heat transfer calculations using EDR

Piping Operations

• Recognize pressure drop correlation options for different phases
• Identify different heat transfer options for pipe segment
• Identify different flow assurance for pipe segment
• Build a piping network using pipe segments
• Workshop Gas Gathering (O&G Focus): Use the Pipe Segment and its built-in Flow Assurance tools to model and study a piping network in Aspen HYSYS

Column Operations

• Column templates
• Determine parameters required to solve a column
• Identify different types of column specifications available
• Analyze the Degrees of Freedom (DOF) of different column
• Identify the side operations available to be added to a column
• Function of column internal analysis
• Build different types of columns using column input expert and manipulate the column specification to meet the process objective
• Develop the column using Sides Ops input expert
• Workshop: Model an LNG production process
• Workshop: Model an LPG production process
• Workshop Atmospheric Crude Column (Refinery Focus): Construct, run, manipulate, and analyze an atmospheric crude distillation column

Rotating Equipment

• Identify the rotating equipment in HYSYS
• List the different compressor operating modes in HYSYS
• Identify what kind of compressor curves can be added in the model
• Build a compressor flowsheet using compressor performance curves to simulate an existing compressor
• Illustrate linking compressors and expanders
• Workshop: Utilize the Recycle operation to build a two stage compression flowsheet; define and activate compressor curves thus modeling a HYSYS compressor with real-world data

Stream Analysis

• List the different stream analysis types
• Identify the different ways to add the stream analysis
• Perform stream analysis to acquire more stream information

Equipment Design

• Identify the calculation type for pipe sizing
• Identify the available specification for vessel sizing

Case Study

• Identify four case study types and their differences
• Identify case study reporting tools
• Monitor the key process variable response to other changes in process using case study
• Workshop: Syngas production from natural gas and Case Study features to determine optimum configuration

Reporting

• Common Reporting Options
• Common reporting options
• Identify what kind of reports can be added to the flowsheet

HYSYS Workbook

• Identify the ways of exporting workbook reports
• Customize the workbook to view additional properties and add it to the flowsheet
• Generate Excel reports from the HYSYS Workbook

Report Manager

• List what kind of reports can be exported by Report Manager and Datasheets

Correlation Manager

• Identify how to manage the properties/correlations displayed for a stream
• Customize properties/correlations for all streams using Correlation Manage

Data Tables

• Monitor the key process variables of any type in the simulation by using Data Table
• Identify the ways of using Data Table

Troubleshooting

• Recognize the various troubleshooting tips
• Identify the methods of troubleshooting
• Explain the Consistency Error table
• Troubleshoot the prepared simulations using common methods
• Workshop: Troubleshoot a series of Aspen HYSYS simulations and implement various best practices to get these simulations to solve properly

Documentation

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