Aspen HYSYS Brochure

Aspen HYSYS®

Process modeling environment for conceptual design and performance improvement of petroleum and oil & gas processes

Aspen HYSYS is the market-leading process modeling solution with a proven track record of providing substantial economic benefits throughout the process engineering lifecycle. It brings the power of process simulation and optimization to the engineering desktop, and delivers a unique combination of modeling technology and ease of use. Aspen HYSYS enables companies to efficiently bring new plants and designs to market faster and optimize production for a higher return on investment.

Aspen HYSYS Benefits

Aspen HYSYS is a proven, industry-standard solution with over twenty-five years of success.

•Improve engineering efficiency by up to 30%

•Improve energy efficiency by up to 30%

•Reduce capital costs by 10-30%t

The Challenge: Adapting to Change, Optimize Business Performance

Across the process industries, companies are faced with global economic challenges, dynamic market conditions, and pressure to reduce time-to-market. With continued volatility in hydrocarbon and energy prices, oil & gas producers, refiners, and E&C firms must creatively reduce capital and operating costs and increase engineering efficiency—all in an effort to maximize plant and business performance and profitability.

The AspenTech Solution: Better Simulation Streamlines Engineering

Fundamental to improving performance of the plant or enterprise, or even the extended supply chain, is an accurate representation of the basic processes. Aspen HYSYS provides the solution to meet this need, providing vital insights for solving the critical engineering and operating problems that arise throughout the plant lifecycle.

The process simulation capabilities of Aspen HYSYS enable engineers to rapidly evaluate the safest and most profitable designs through quick creation of interactive models for “what-if” studies and sensitivity analysis. These models can be leveraged throughout the plant lifecycle—from conceptual to detailed designs, performance rating, and optimization—significantly reducing engineering costs and enabling better operating decisions. Other benefits include:

•Improving engineering productivity

•Reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions

•Minimizing capital and operating costs

•Improving product yields and quality

•Optimizing plant operations by calibrating models with real data sets

•Supporting Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) policies and regulatory compliance

•Integrating with other aspenONE® Engineering solutions to provide a common engineering workflow for the Refining, Midstream, E&P and E&C industries

Aspen HYSYS®

Aspen HYSYS Options

The power and flexibility of Aspen HYSYS is further enhanced through a number of optional add-on applications.

•Aspen HYSYS® Dynamics: Enables safety and control studies, pressure relief analysis, optimizing startup and shutdown policies, and as a simulation engine for Operator

Training Simulators (OTS) without leaving the Aspen HYSYS environment

•Aspen HYSYS® Crude: Enables the simulation of crude oil assays and crude columns

•Aspen HYSYS® Amines: Simulates and optimizes gas and liquid sweetening processes involving single or blended amines

•Aspen HYSYS® EO (Equation-Oriented) Modeling Option:

Enables large Aspen HYSYS simulation models to be converged rapidly using the EO solution mode, and is based on the proven EO model library available in Aspen Plus®

•Aspen HYSYS® Upstream: Provides an E&P-specific solution for integrated asset modeling and appraisal; production field data can be input in an easy-to-use environment to create an asset-wide model from the reservoir to the back end of the facility

•Aspen HYSYS® Petroleum Refining: Provides a refiningspecific solution for improved feedstock selection and planning; enables users to integrate crude assay libraries, reactor models, and links to LP planning tools for better crude selection, planning, and scheduling of operations

•Rigorous Reactor Models: Simulate models for FCC, hydroprocessing, naphtha reforming and isomerization that use familiar Aspen HYSYS interfaces for calibration and integration into larger flow sheets

•Aspen Simulation Workbook: Integrates with Microsoft Excel® and AspenTech simulators, including Aspen HYSYS and Aspen HYSYS Dynamics. Applications include supplementary design calculations, reporting, and deployment of models in operations for performance monitoring and decision support.

Aspen HYSYS’ integrated steady-state and dynamic environment enables rapid model building for design, control, operability analysis, and operations decision support.

Activated Energy Analysis within Aspen HYSYS continually analyzes models’ utility and GHG costs, and proposes design updates to minimize energy expenditure.

Aspen HYSYS provides large flowsheet modeling capability

(e.g., refinery process units, including reactors, or integrated sub-sea pipeline and top-side facility models for oil and gas).

	Aspen HYSYS®
Function	Benefit
Streamlines Workflow
• Streamlines process design, equipment sizing, and	• Delivers an efficient workflow across engineering disciplines
preliminary cost estimation through integration with	• Reduces project cycle time
other aspenONE® Engineering tools	• Improves accuracy and cost-effectiveness of designs
Comprehensive Thermodynamics Foundation

•Access the world's largest database of pure component and phase equilibrium data with the ability to add user components

•Ensures accurate calculation of physical properties, transport properties, and phase behavior

•Generates accurate simulation results

Comprehensive Library of Unit Operation Models

• Addresses a wide range of models in both steady-	•	Provides an accurate simulation of the actual process
state and dynamic environments	•	Improves engineering efficiency

Easy to Learn

•	Intuitive graphical interface facilitates ease of use	• Speed up adoption of software and minimize time to return
•	Extensive library of online self-training is available,
	including computer-based training modules

Activated Energy and Activated Economic Analysis

•Assess cost associated with utilities and greenhouse gasses with each model run

•Evaluate design changes to optimize energy use

•Individually assess utility and equipment costs

•Compare heat and cooling demand with pinch theory

•Determine the economic impact of design decisions immediately

•Identify opportunities for energy savings during design

•Cut costs throughout the process without losing time

Online Model Deployment

•Use as an operator advisory system with

Aspen Online Deployment

•Built-in advanced sequential quadratic program (SQP) algorithm enables offline and online optimization of designs and operating performance

•Increases profitability through real-time performance monitoring and optimization of process operations

•Enables improved model-based decision support

•Leverages engineering knowledge gained from process models into the plant operations environment

Open Environment for Third-Party Integration

•Link to other widely used tools such as OLI’s electrolyte package, amines packages, PVT and Black

Oil thermodynamics, and more

•Use CAPE-OPEN-compliant models within

Aspen HYSYS®

•ActiveX compliance permits integration of usercreated unit operations, proprietary reaction kinetic expressions, and specialized property packages

•Improves engineering efficiency and reduces total cost of ownership

•Enables customization and provides flexibility

aspenONE® Engineering addresses each phase of the process lifecycle, enabling companies to develop the most economical and reliable plants.

Empower Your Company to Succeed

aspenONE Engineering is an integrated lifecycle solution—from conceptual design through plant startup and operations support—enabling you to model, build, and operate safer, more efficient and more competitive process plants. AspenTech’s Engineering Professional Services helps ensure that your project achieves its maximum potential by leveraging our unparalleled industry expertise to design, analyze, debottleneck, and improve plant performance. Combined with our world-class 24/7 technical support service, flexible training options, including online training from within the software, proprietary search engine to locate and re-use models and data, and local language product availability, AspenTech provides the resources to enable your company to meet and exceed its business objectives.

About AspenTech

AspenTech is a leading supplier of software that optimizes process manufacturing—for energy, chemicals, engineering and construction, and other industries that manufacture and produce products from a chemical process. With integrated aspenONE® solutions, process manufacturers can implement best practices for optimizing their engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain operations. As a result, AspenTech customers are better able to increase capacity, improve margins, reduce costs, and become more energy efficient. To see how the world’s leading process manufacturers rely on AspenTech to achieve their operational excellence goals, visit www.aspentech.com.

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