Product description: Aspen Plus

Aspen Plus solves the critical engineering and operating problems that arise throughout the lifecycle of a chemical process, such as designing a new process, troubleshooting a process unit or optimizing operations of a full process like an Acrylic Acid plant. The process simulation capabilities of Aspen Plus enables engineers to predict the behavior of a process using basic engineering relationships such as mass and energy balances, phase and chemical equilibrium, and reaction kinetics. With reliable thermodynamic data, realistic operating conditions and the rigorous Aspen Plus equipment models, they can simulate actual plant behavior.

Aspen Plus 2004 (version 1.0 with Cumulative Patch) CAPE-OPEN Interfaces Support

• CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation Socket – sequential modular
  • Allows any CAPE-OPEN Unit to be used in an Aspen Plus Simulation
  • MixNSplit example implementing 1.0 interfaces with full source code is installed with Aspen Plus
  • Supports both 0.93 and 1.0 versions of the standard.
  • CAPE-OPEN Reporting interfaces are not supported
• CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamics Socket
  • Allows CAPE-OPEN Property Packages to be used to provide property calculations in Aspen Plus simulations.
  • CAPE-OPEN flash calculations (CalcEquilibrium method) are not currently supported.
  • The Thermodynamics socket is also supported in Aspen Properties
• CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamics Plug
  • Use Aspen Plus to create CAPE-OPEN Property Packages based on Aspen Plus Compounds and Property Methods.
  • The Thermodynamics Plug is also supported in Aspen Properties
• CAPE-OPEN Reactions Interfaces
  • A partial implementation to allow Unit Operations to access Reaction schemes
• Prototype (un-proven) implementations:
  • Equation-Oriented Unit Operation Socket, which allows any equation-oriented CAPE-OPEN Unit to run in Aspen Plus EO mode. The Aspen Plus MixNSplit CAPE-OPEN example demonstrates EO support
  • Access to streams comprising one MIXED and one CISOLID substream via CAPE-OPEN interfaces to support solids processing Unit Operations.

Product Description: Aspen HYSYS 2004

HYSYS is built upon proven technologies, with more than 25 years experience supplying process simulation tools to the oil & gas and refining industries. It provides an intuitive and interactive process modeling solution that enables engineers to create steady state models for plant design, performance monitoring, troubleshooting, operational improvement, business planning and asset management.

Aspen HYSYS 2004 version 1.0 CAPE-OPEN Interfaces Support

• CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation Socket – sequential modular
  • Allows any CAPE-OPEN Unit to be used in a HYSYS Simulation
  • Supports both 0.93 and 1.0 versions of the standard.
• CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamics Socket - via COMThermo
  • Allows CAPE-OPEN Property Packages to be used to provide property calculations in HYSYS simulations.
• CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamics Plug – via COMThermo
  • Use HYSYS (or any COMThermo client) to create CAPE-OPEN Property Packages based on COMThermo Compounds and Property Methods.