Process Calculations and Simulations using Aspen HYSYS

What You Will 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. Show moreShow less.