Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger

Drive capital and operational efficiency through optimized design of air-cooled heat exchangers

Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger is the latest generation of thermal design software for detailed simulation and optimized design of air-cooled heat exchangers. Companies deploying Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger realize significant benefits, such as 10-30% equipment cost savings, reduced energy costs, and increased engineering efficiency.

The Challenge
Heat transfer equipment accounts for up to 30% of process capital costs and 90% of operating costs. Designing or rating heat exchangers effectively is a complicated task. Multiple engineering groups with different requirements are typically involved in each aspect of the design process, using standalone tools with a minimum of integration. Manual transfer of information results in costly errors, delays, and inconsistencies. An integrated solution that meets the needs of all functional groups is required to provide a truly optimized design that drives capital and operational efficiency.

The AspenTech Solution

Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger enables optimum design, rating and simulation of air-cooled heat exchangers for both the expert and casual user. Integration with process simulators and synthesis tools allows for improved reliability by aligning people and information across technological boundaries. High level run-time integration with Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS enables engineers to rigorously model heat exchanger operation and identify capital saving opportunities. Process improvements can be modeled for various operating scenarios, bottlenecks identified, and maintenance schedules optimized, ensuring sufficient area while identifying potential operational problems.

Integration with Aspen Plus or Aspen HYSYS eliminates the need for manual transfer of data that is often the cause of errors and costly delays

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Wide Range of Applications
Key Technical Features Program modes: Design optimizes the selection based on capital and operating costs Check (Rate) determines if a given exchanger has sufficient area to achieve a specified duty Simulation options multiple simulation options for prediction of inlet/outlet temperatures, mass flows, or process fouling X-side flow and thermal duty operating point for a defined fan performance curve Tube types: Plain, high fin, low fin, serrated fin, studs, tube-in-plate (up to 4 different tube types in each bundle) High fin types: Integral, G, L, extruded, bi-metallic, shoulder grooved Header types: box, cover plate, D-header, manifold, u-tube Passes Up to 50 in simple and complex arrangements Bundle size Two to 100 rows, with multiple bundles per bay and multiple bays per unit Draught forced, induced, no fans Inclusion of allowance for radiative heat transfer Interactive graphical tube layout customization Fouling standard resistance or tubeside as a function of velocity, temperature, quality, phase or length; X-side as a function of row General tubeside and shellside enhancement methods Automated handling of condensation with immiscible liquids SI, metric, US, and user customizable systems of measure Weight and budget cost estimates, includes capital equipment and operating costs Conceptual heat exchanger design is a key function of the process engineer at the early stages of a project, requiring added detail as the project evolves. Thermal experts must optimize the sizing of new equipment, rate existing equipment to ensure sufficient area, and select the best exchanger type for a given application. Heat exchanger fabricators must thermally guarantee their heat exchangers, providing the most economical heat exchangers for a given set of process conditions. Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger addresses these wide range of application needs. It serves both the engineering contractor and the equipment fabricator, allowing sharing of models from conceptual design to operational troubleshooting. Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger facilitates the full range of practical process applications, including multi-component condensing, boiling heat recovery, and de-humidifying. Three major databases are included - Aspen Properties, an industry standard in the chemical sector; Aspen HYSYS Thermodynamics COM Interface, the leading package in oil & gas processing; and Aspen B-JAC standard properties package. This combined collection contains over 15,000 component properties and more than 30 industry-standard VLE/VLL methods and mixing rules. Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger supports the design of air-cooled heat exchangers and other cross flow exchangers used for heat recovery, air conditioning, charge air coolers, A-frame and V-frame configurations.

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Output
Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger uses the power and flexibility of the Microsoft Windows environment, allowing users to fully explore exchanger geometry and performance detail. In addition, Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger is designed to support drag & drop interfacing with Microsoft Excel, as well as high-level communication with other software. Thermal output includes: Optimization path that identifies the most economical design selection, possible alternative designs, and controlling design constraints Extensive warning and error reporting, alerting you to potential operational problems Summary of exchanger thermal-hydraulic performance Detailed tubeside, X-side and nozzle pressure drops Detailed tabulation of incremental calculations X-side installation and fan noise data Fully completed API data sheet Interactive tube layout drawing allowing for simple and complex pass arrangements Setting plan drawings for API-type units Comprehensive incremental output Extensive graphing capabilities

Program output allows the user to view thermal summary data, detailed incremental results, and graphical output to visualize the equipment being designed

Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating

Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger is a part of the Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating family of products. Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating products offer state-of-the-art heat exchanger simulation and design based on over 30 years of industry-lead research. Our aim is to enhance the value of heat transfer solutions by providing the most integrated product offering across the widest range of technologies. This enables our customers to use the most advanced physically-based modeling, from unit design and overall process design, through to optimization and operational monitoring.

Worldwide Headquarters
Aspen Technology, Inc. 200 Wheeler Road Burlington, MA 01803 phone: +1-781-221-6400 fax: +1-781-221-6410 info@aspentech.com

EMEA Headquarters aspenONE Process Engineering

Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating family of products is a key component of aspenONE Process Engineering for chemical, refining, and E&P companies. aspenONE Process Engineering is an integrated lifecycle solution from conceptual design through to plant startup and operations supportenabling our customers to build and operate safer, competitive and more reliable process plants. Companies are able to reduce capital and operating costs, increase engineering efficiency and quality, and accelerate time-to-marketwith payback in months instead of years. AspenTech Ltd. C1, Reading Intl Business Park Basingstoke Road Reading UK RG2 6DT phone: +44-(0)-1189-226400 fax: +44-(0)-1189-226401 ATE_info@aspentech.com

About AspenTech
AspenTech is a leading provider of award-winning process optimization software and services. AspenTechs integrated aspenONE solutions enable manufacturers to reduce costs, increase capacity, and optimize operational performance end-to-end throughout the engineering, plant operations, and supply chain management processes. For more information, visit www.aspentech.com.

APAC Headquarters
AspenTech - Shanghai 3rd Floor, North Wing Zhe Da Wang Xin Building 2966 Jin Ke Road Zhangjiang High-Tech Zone Pudong, Shanghai 201203, China phone: +86-21-5137-5000 fax: +86-21-5137-5100 apac_marketing@aspentech.com

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