What’s New in Aspen HYSYS V10?

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New "Stuff" in Aspen HYSYS V10

There are plenty of upgrades for HYSYS for which i’m jealous as you might know I’m a fan of Aspen Plus.

Although I still use HYSYS for certain types of simulations, so that’s why it is important to know what’s new and what new features are in the new version 🙂

 

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Main Updates & Features

Aspen HYSYS V10 includes new features and enhancements in the following areas:

  • New Equation Oriented (EO) Sub-Flowsheet and Modeling Capabilities

  • BLOWDOWN Technology Improvements

  • HYSYS Petroleum Refining Improvements

  • Aspen Assay Management Improvements

  • Plant Data

  • Gas Plant Modeling

  • Sulsim Improvements

  • Pipeline Hydraulics Improvements

  • Column Analysis Improvements

  • HYSYS Properties Improvements

  • Safety Analysis Improvements

  • Integration with ABE Datasheets

  • EDR Integration Improvements

  • General HYSYS Improvements

  • HYSYS Dynamics Enhancements

General HYSYS Improvements

New Model Palette

Finally, a better Model Palette! It is now easier to organize in categories 🙂

  • Two different viewing options:

    • Text View, which displays the icon, name, and description for each unit operation.

    • Grid View, which displays only the icon for each unit operation. You can hover over a unit operation to view the associated tooltip.

  • A new search functionality.

  • Eight categories:

    • all, dynamics, external models, heat, manipulator, piping, reactor, separatos)

Other Enhancements:

Screw Compressor Enhancements

  • A new Performance curve calculation is available on the

    • Volumetric Flow vs. Pressure

  • New Leakage flow calculations

  • Control Slide Valve found in most compressors in the industry. When you select this check box, the Slide Valve Characteristics table allows you to model the relationship between the Current Slide Valve Position and the Capacity Load %.

Case Study Enhancements

  • Small detail: You can now edit the Units for each variable in the Case Study.

HYSYS Dynamics Enhancements

Quickies:

  • HYSYS PID algorithm implements a two degrees of freedom PID Controller via setpoint weighting
  • Low Limit for the controller OP can now be specified to be less than 0%.
  • A new Scale PV after applying the gain option for scaling the input signal in Transfer Function Blocks was implemented.

New EO Sub-Flowsheet!

This is great news for all of you guys using sub-flowsheeting. Aspen HYSYS has been updated for a New EO startegy (EO = Equation Oritented Technology)

  • Improved Performance and Convergence
Supported Blocks:

  • Separators, 3-Phase Separators, and Tanks

  • Coolers

  • Heaters

  • Heat Exchangers

  • Pumps

  • Expanders

  • Compressors

  • Control Valves

  • Mixers

  • Tees

  • Recycles

  • EO Measurement Operations

  • LNG Exchangers

  • EO Calculators

And more importanly, Column blocks:

  • Distillation Columns

  • Refluxed Absorber Columns

  • Component Splitters

  • Absorber Columns

  • Reboiled Absorber Columns

  • Three Phase Distillation Columns

  • Liquid-Liquid Extractors

Ability to Easily Validate Equation Oriented Input

then…

  • EO Calculator and EO Measurement Operation

  • Easy Conversion from SM to EO

  • Ability to Easily Validate Equation Oriented Input

Equation Oriented Tab

You can use the buttons in the EO Configuration group:

Some of the features;

  • Set initial values for a/all of the EO variables within the EO Sub-Flowsheet.

  • Add objective functions

  • Manage and define EO Specification Groups for all EO variables.

  • Create & assign scripts

  • Add user connections to the flowsheet.

  • Configure your model with plant measurements.

  • Specify equation oriented options.

  • Create aliases, which are user-defined alternate names for EO variables.

HYSYS Petroleum Refining Improvements

New Refining Short-Cut Column

  • NEW Refining Short-Cut Column, which replaces the Petroleum Distillation Column.

Reactor Enhancements

  • A Calibration tab is now included in:
    • Hydroprocessor Bed.
    • Isomerization Unit.

The Catalytic Reformer includes a new Molecule-Based transition method.

HYSYS provides three default feed types supported by literature and KMT for this method:

  • Straight-Run

  • Coker Naphtha

  • Hydrocracker Naphtha

 

General Refining Enhancements

General improvements:

  • Blending rules for:
    • Mass Blend, Mole Blend, and Volume Blend
  • HYSYS now offers five mixing rules for user properties.
  • The Optimization tab of the Product Blender now includes a Set Default Scale button.

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Aspen Assay Management Improvements

Molecular Characterization Enhancements

  • Detailed molecular-level data obtained using advanced analytical techniques, such as GC-ToF and FT-ICR-MS

  • Identify the molecules and measure their compositions.

  • Identify compound classes (or types), double bond equivalent (DBE) distribution and carbon number distribution.

New Aspen Report Setup Wizard

  • New Aspen Report Setup Wizard, accessible from the Generate Report button on the Assay Management ribbon tab

Improved Aspen Assay Management Converter

AspenTech Format Excel File Provided to Simplify Assay Data Import

  • Finally! Sharing Assay data via spreadsheets will no longer be a pin in the A$$!

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  • Workshop based
  • Case studies
  • Theory
  • Physical & Simulation Environments

Pipeline Hydraulics Improvements

Multi-Phase Flow Correlation

  • NEW: Tulsa Unified Model (3-Phase) correlation is now available:

    • Since Aspen Hydraulics in Steady State mode is no longer limited to two-phase flows, streams now report aqueous data.

New Hydraulics Unit Operations: Compressor and Pump

  • The Aspen Hydraulics Sub-Flowsheet now includes two new unit operations, allowing you to model pressure increases in your pipeline (FINALLY)

    • Aspen Hydraulics Compressor

    • Aspen Hydraulics Pump

Improved Workflow for Setting up the Steady State Network (Boundary Nodes)

  • Aspen Hydraulics Compressor

  • Aspen Hydraulics Pump

Column Analysis Improvements

Two main features:

Downcomer Choke Flood

  • New downcomer choke flood correlation for trayed columns.
  • Choke flooding on certain trays reduces the capacity and efficiency of the trays and other trays in the immediate vicinity

Improved Range for Side Downcomer Width

  • New limitation restrictions for the downcomer dimensions:

    • 1-pass trays: 0.025D to 0.4D

    • 2-and-3-pass trays: 0.025D to 0.25D

    • 4-pass trays: 0.025D to 0.2D

Improvements in HYSYS Properties

Similar as with Aspen Plus V10 update, you can now get new databanks!

  • HYSYS V10 includes a new IAPWS-IF97 property package, which uses the IAPWS Industrial Formulation 1997 correlation for thermodynamic properties of water and steam

Properties Enhancements

  • Bubble Point Pressure is now available as a correlation in both: the Stream and in the Workbook.
  • ASTM D6377-16 correlation is now available under the RVP correlation type on the Correlation Manager

  • The following Methods are now available for the Flash Point correlation:

  • HYSYS now uses the Free-Water phase Property Method (generally, the Steam Table method) to calculate aqueous phase properties
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EDR Integration Improvements

Plate Exchanger Available in HYSYS

  • New Plate Exchanger unit operation, which solves heat and material balances for two stream plate heat exchangers

Rigorous CoilWound Heat Exchangers

  • NEW: optional EDR- CoilWound rating method that can be selected on the Design tab | Parameters page of the LNG Exchanger.

New Find Fouling Mode

  • The Rigorous Shell&Tube Heat Exchanger includes a new Find Fouling calculation mode.

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