A Es Overview

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The Challenge

The process industry operates some of the most complicated, interdependent, and expensive

facilities on earth, spending on the order of $500 billion annually in asset creation and maintenance.

The process industry also faces unique challenges managing new product developments,

environmental stewardship, maximizing energy efficiency, and operating profitably amid raw material

and finished product cost fluctuations. Managing these challenges throughout the process assets'

lifecycle involves complex engineering and business tradeoffs, with decisions made daily that firms

will live with for years to come.

The Opportunity

There is huge opportunity in successfully managing the process industry challenges through optimal

Process Asset Lifecycle Management (PaLM) from Business Planning & Economic Analysis, to

R&D and Conceptual Design, to Process Engineering, to Detailed Engineering, to Technology

Transfer & Construction, and through Operations.

In addition, owner operators will further increase margins by combining PaLM solutions with

Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Supply Chain Planning & Execution (SCP/SCE) and

Customer & Supplier Relationship Management (CRM/SRM). They can leverage consistent models

and data to reach decisions faster, more accurately, and more transparently with the technical and

economic data generated and captured within the models supporting the level of accuracy required

by each decision. Engineering, manufacturing and supply chain solutions combined, at the

enterprise level, into Enterprise Operations Management (EOM) systems and well integrated with

ERP systems provide process manufacturers with the capability to dramatically improve theiroperating performance.

Benefit from AspenTech's unique software and process industry expertise. Deploy PaLM solution

elements in a fully scalable manner into a complete EOM solution.

The Aspen Engineering Suite (AES)

AES is AspenTech's Process Asset Lifecycle Management solution. AES consists of integrated

products, enabling the execution of various PaLM tasks throughout the enterprise:

AES Economic Evaluation products combine engineering and business decisions for accurate project

scope definition and cost evaluation, from conceptual project definition through detailed engineering.

AES Collaborative Engineering products support integrated collaborative engineering to create a Front

End Engineering Design (FEED) package and share process engineering expertise.

AES Physical Properties & Chemistries products include physical property data, models, estimation

and regression capabilities adapted for the Oil & Gas, Refining, Chemicals, and Pharmaceuticals

industries.

AES Conceptual Engineering products assist process engineers in creating, identifying and selecting

best process designs for heat exchangers networks and separation trains.

AES Simulation and Optimization products enable engineers to quickly identify optimal plant designs

for steady state and dynamic simulation and optimization as well as for batch process and recipe

development. These products enable users to optimize plant designs, establish heat and materialbalances, support environmental and safety studies, and to carry out operability analysis.

Aspen Engineering Suite

A Leading and Unique Process Asset Lifecycle Management Solution

A Corner Stone of Enterprise Operations Management


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AES Equipment Design and Rating products support the design and rating of highly performing heat exchangers with

minimum capital cost.

AES is an open environment that supports and promotes open industry standards such as CAPE-OPEN, OPC, ASME,

CODAP, PD5500, DIN, JIS and TEMA.

AES encapsulates the engineering and business data and models to implement scalable PaLM solutions. With AES,

you can:

Improve Engineering Productivity by up to 30% through continuous productivity and workflow improvements

With the industry's most complete, powerful, and innovative simulation and optimization tools, databases, unit operation

libraries and economic evaluation capabilities, AES significantly reduces the amount of time spent on common

engineering tasks. Rule-based systems, recipes, and open and extensible models capture best practices, facilitate

knowledge reuse, and automate many common tasks, all reducing project cycle times. Knowledge can be shared and

leveraged and projects accelerated through collaborative engineering. Engineers will have more time to focus theirexpertise on value-added activities, such as envisioning alternatives, assessing risk, managing economic barriers, and

optimizing facilities based on both technical and strategic business goals.

Increase ROI by reducing capital expenditures by up to 10% on each asset investment

AES enables the design of new plants or revamp existing ones with minimal capital expenditures. Its engineering

capabilities enable the generation and exploration innovative alternatives. It enables accurate estimation of investment

opportunities very early in the process asset lifecycle. AES uses the industry's most comprehensive cost databases and

rules-based system to properly scope projects, estimate capital requirements, predict expenses and generate detailed

breakdowns. Managers tackle the right problems early in the design phase, where the decisions are made that affect

80% of the total project cost. AES also provides a common set of engineering and business assumptions, enabling

business leaders to drive engineering decisions with confidence.

Increase ROI by reducing operating costs by up to 3% and enabling continuous key performance indictor enhancements

In the globally competitive process industry; small variations in operating cost structure often spell the difference

between healthy profits and marginal performance. AES enables the design of plants that cost less to operate over their

lifecycle or enables to reduce operating costs through revamps. AES also enables engineers to optimize material, utility,

and heat flows, and correctly sized equipment, which can make an enormous difference in profitability.

Additionally, AES models, created for engineering purposes, can be extended in consistent ways for use by operations

to carry out plant monitoring, real-time optimization and support business level planning, enhancing asset utilization

and increasing margins.

Accelerate Time to Market by up to 10% by compressing the timeline between discovery and manufacturing

In the process industries that rely on new product introductions as a source of competitive advantage, AES enables the

unification and compression workflow by standardizing, optimizing and transferring process information from discovery

to manufacturing. Decision-makers can identify significant issues early in the process while quickly discovering more

viable, cost effective alternatives that will ensure that their products reach the market early and remain competitive in

the long term. By enabling to achieve easier regulatory compliance, allowing significant steps in scale between the lab

and the final plant, and by generating and sharing information in a timely fashion across multiple work processes,

clients can significantly reduce time to market.

AES is fundamental to the accurate, predictable, safe, and competent design, creation, and improvement of process

plants, maximizing returns throughout the asset's operating life. It is designed to not only leverage the predictive power of

first-principle engineering models required for accurate and safe engineering execution, but to also scale the level of detail

in the information appropriately for engineering, business managers and operators to make well informed and consistent

decisions. This AES powerful and unique Model Centric promotes the use of consistent simulation and data models

throughout all decision stages of PaLM, and across all stakeholders. Model Centric decisions-making enables to manage


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complexity as the engineering knowledge and asset models scale effectively and seamlessly to the enterprise level,

enabling efficient communication and collaboration using a common language within the enterprise and across Owner-

Operators, Process Licensors, and Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) companies. AES enables Model

Centric PaLM decisions that are scalable to Model Centric EOM decisions.

Getting the Most Out of AES

You can implement AES in stages. Achieve immediate results by focusing first on pressing issues, then leverage your

company's experience and roll out a full implementation.

You can implement AES on your own or, to accelerate the value you can get from AES, you can work with AspenTech's

Engineering Products Services, which is highly experienced at delivering advanced engineering solutions that add value

throughout the entire process asset lifecycle. AspenTech's Engineering Products Services is a uniquely qualified group of

industry domain experts, dedicated to helping you obtain maximum value from AES products by providing the engineering

and business solutions you need. This is achieved through a combination of training, customer support, technology

transfer and project services. AspenTech's Engineering Product Services enable you to maximize ROI by reducing the cost

of investments and improving operating performance.

Economic Evaluation

Accurate, accelerated business decisions developed using industry standards and engineering based economic andtechnical information are critical to the process industries.

AES Economic Evaluation products provide the industry with the most comprehensive and detailed economic evaluation

capabilities. They enable engineers and business managers to better understand cost structures as well as technical and

economic tradeoffs from the very early stage of any engineering project. They provide the consistent, detailed information

required to optimize process technology, plant capacity, plant configuration, operating costs and location.

Long before initiating detailed studies, AES Economic Evaluation products use rule-based systems to help define the

entire scope of the project and estimate total capital and operating costs. As the project develops, AES generates more

and more precise information, including detailed equipment models, detailed labor and subcomponent costs, and

optimized implementation schedules. Thus, at any point in time, the most accurate project economic evaluation estimate

is available to support critical engineering and business decisions or negotiations between owner operators, EPCs and

equipment vendors.

AES Economic Evaluation products do not rely on multipliers to estimate piping, concrete, labor or any other costs. They

estimate the cost for each piece of equipment from the bottom up, estimating labor required, the actual steel required,

the fabrication time, the wiring and piping details, control systems, and other plant components. As a result, engineers

and business decision-makers will not only quickly locate the true economic barriers to project success but can take

specific actions to target resources to areas where they will reap the most significant gains. In addition, they will know the

exact consequences of decisions, such as for example, the increase in piping cost if the decision is taken to increase the

storage capacity. They can provide management with detailed cost impacts of assumptions, estimates of project status,

define project execution strategies, negotiate based on facts and hard data, bring plants on stream faster, and, most

importantly, achieve the operating edge required to prosper in today's highly competitive global marketplace.

AES Economic Evaluation products include:

Aspen Icarus

. Support projects and process economic evaluation over the entire project lifecycle. Define project scope. Costequipment and associated plant bulks using comprehensive design-based installation models and Aspen Richardson data of

actual costs. Evolve from approximate estimates in early conceptual engineering to very precise project costs and

implementation schedules as you finalize design. Aspen Icarus includes four products:

Aspen Decision Analyzer. Model process facilities to support business investment decisions. Quickly analyze

alternate scenarios involving process, production capacity, plant location, economic premises, and modifications to

the process and facility design.


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Aspen Icarus Process Evaluator. Evaluate lifecycle business impact of

design alternatives in the early phases of conceptual design. Generate

operating costs and investment cash flow curves to quantify a plant's

business contribution. Expand, through proprietary mapping technology,

unit operations into actual equipment models and calculate preliminary

sizes.

Aspen Kbase. Generate detailed estimates and implementation

schedules for large EPC projects from minimal information. Define projectexecution strategy for multiple subcontractors. Quantify cost and schedule

changes with variations in design standards and specifications,

construction techniques, construction workweek, mandatory field over-

time, multiple shifts, and use of remote fabrication shops.

Aspen Icarus Project Manager. Integrate project management for

existing facilities. Develop detailed designs, estimate and schedule

from minimal project outlines. Include such infrastructure

requirements as equipment, piping, instrument loops, and power

distribution networks. Automatically generate block and process flow

diagrams from AES simulations.

Aspen Richardson. Leverage a comprehensive database with the cost of

more than 200,000 line items used in process plants, including

subcomponents of such common elements as pumps, heat exchangers, and

reactors. Cover cost and installation labor data for all the disciplines

including civil, structural, piping, mechanical, electrical, instruments, process equipment, painting, insulation, and heating,

ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. Include custom items and modify embedded formulas. Aspen Richardson

includes four products:

Richardson Process Plant Construction Estimating Standards. Access a 4,000 pages encyclopedia of

comprehensive estimating standards for the process construction industry. Leverage extensive information on process

equipment pricing and installation, as well as the following disciplines site work, concrete, masonry, structural steel,

carpentry, architectural specialties, mechanical and electrical construction.

Richardson Cost Factor Manual

. Access a 1200 pages manual with valuable data on 87 major cities within 40countries. Include data covering wages, crew rates, labor productivity factors, trade regulations, taxes, import duties

and much more.

Richardson General Construction Estimating Standards. Access a 2400 pages encyclopedia of comprehensive

estimating standards for the General Construction Industry. Leverage extensive information on site work, concrete,

masonry, structural steel, carpentry, architectural specialties, mechanical and electrical construction.

Richardson WinRace Database. Search and use an electronic unit cost estimating database and estimating system.

Leverage the comprehensive links to the Aspen Icarus technology for importing additional detailed items into all of the

Aspen Icarus software. Access the full scope of information from the Richardson Process Plant Construction

Estimating Standards, included in the Richardson WinRace Database. Access to over 200,000 line items and cost

data for several engineering disciplines.

Collaborative Engineering

The process industry is truly global in nature. Optimal Process Asset Lifecycle Management requires efficient

collaboration across owner operators, EPCs and Equipment vendors, as well as knowledge sharing and re-use within

companies across engineering departments and plant operations.

AES Collaborative Engineering products enable engineers and business partners to securely store, share, and exchange

engineering process knowledge using a common core data model (CCDM) across PaLM. They enable simultaneous

access of project and plant data and enable teamwork across time zones and across organizations. They not only enable

smooth engineering workflows, but also yield far more accurate and consistent results throughout the enterprise by

allowing the capture and re-use of best practices. They include the accumulated knowledge of years of chemical

engineering experience in a form ready to be used to support engineering and business decisions.

Aspen Icarus Process Evaluator

Aspen Economic Analyzer


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AES Collaborative Engineering products also deliver the benefits of models to plant operations teams and business

planners. Process engineers can drive models using real-time plant data to boost throughput and product quality while

lowering costs. Process Models can securely be made available through the Internet for model and knowledge based

decision-making. Business and Operations managers can work with dependable sets of assumptions. Everyone speaks

the same language, accessing powerful what-if models to optimize profitability in the face of ever-changing operating

constraints and business goals.

AES Collaborative Engineering products include:

Aspen Zyqad. Store, manage, reconcile, specify,

and share process data throughout the engineering

lifecycle. Provide concurrent multi-user access to

simulation, design, physical property, equipment

and other engineering data through an object-

oriented database. Automate the generation of

consistent, up-to-date process flow diagrams

(PFDs), piping and instrumentation diagrams

(P&IDs), equipment datasheets, and other Front

End Engineering Design (FEED) deliverables.

Disseminate engineering standards, design rules,

and best practices throughout the enterprise.Automatically propagate data to CAD and 3D

solutions such as Intergraph's solutions. Use a

graphic interface, preformatted templates, and

full configuration utilities.

Aspen WebModels. Publish secure, pre-configured process models across the Web. Enable plant managers, operations

engineers, and financial analysts to use models to optimize operating parameters and make better business decisions. Publish

only a restricted set of variables without exposing proprietary information or intellectual property.

Aspen Enterprise Engineering. Enable your company's engineers and business managers to share a full suite of simulation

and optimization products from a central server. Rapidly implement end-to-end, integrated AES solutions over the Internet.

Enable team members in different locations to collaborate on process model development.

Physical Properties & Chemistries

Reliable process and economic models cannot exist without an accurate representation of the behavior of the

chemical components or crude and oil fractions used in the process. Precise descriptions of oil & gas, pure

component and complex mixture properties and chemistries are critical to design decisions, plant operations and

safety, and yield measurable capital and operating savings.

AES Physical Properties & Chemistries products offer the industry's broadest range of general and specialized physical

properties methods, models, data and chemistries. They include comprehensive databases with physical property data

and parameters for thousands of components and mixtures in the oil & gas, chemicals and pharmaceutical area,

including extremely non-ideal electrolytes, organic mixtures and polymers. Crude Oil and Assay data handling capabilities

allow to accurately model Oil & Gas and Refining processes. AES Physical Properties & Chemistries products includeregression capabilities to leverage laboratory data, and methods to estimate physical properties with minimal information.

AES Physical Properties & Chemistries products enable the usage of the same physical property data and models across

the entire Process Asset Lifecycle from all AES products, to Microsoft Excel or VBA applications, or over the Internet. This

minimizes duplication of effort and improves communications among the entire enterprise design team. In addition, it

reduces the possibility of inconsistent designs and expensive project rework throughout the process plant lifecycle. This

helps to save money, shortens time-to-market and improves the efficiency and quality of the design process. It enables

true PaLM.

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AES Physical Properties & Chemistries products include:

Aspen Properties. Generate accurate, consistent physical property models

and data for use and reuse with other AES products and Excel/VBA based

applications. Draw on extensive library of physical property models and

databases of pure component and mixture properties optimized for the

chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Model extremely non-ideal electrolytes,

organic mixtures, and oligomers. Determine physical model parameters by

regressing laboratory data. Estimate properties from a few known parameters.

Easily interface Aspen Properties with proprietary or third party property data

and models.

COMThermo. Handle assays and generate highly accurate pure component

properties and interaction parameters optimized for the oil and gas and refining

industry. Re-use COMThermo with Excel/VBA based applications and easily

interface COMThermo with third party proprietary data and models.

HYSYS Amines. Simulate and optimize gas and liquid sweetening

processes involving single, blended or activated amines. Employ tray-

by-tray approaches to model absorption and reaction of hydrogen

sulfide and carbon dioxide in various industrial solvents. Leverage theadvanced thermodynamic Li-Mather electrolyte model with improved

reliability over empirical models, especially for blended amines.

DETHERM. Develop models faster and more accurately by tapping

DETHERM, the world's most comprehensive compilation of

experimental thermophysical property and phase equilibrium data for

pure components and mixtures. Access 3.3 million data sets for

approximately 18,000 pure components and 87,000 mixtures.

Aspen OLI Interface and HYSYS Interface OLI. Interface Model

and analyze within Aspen Plus or within HYSYS complex aqueous

electrolyte systems by combining their simulation power with the

extensive OLI databank and thermophysical properties for more than 3,000 organic and inorganic electrolytic species.

Polymers Plus. Generate accurate and consistent models and data for polymer molecular structure, polymer

thermodynamics, polymerization chemistries and catalysis. Carry out steady state and dynamic, simulation and optimization of

all industrial polymerization processes with AES Simulation and Optimization products. Expand simulations with full

customization capabilities for modeling proprietary molecules and polymers.

Conceptual Engineering

Distillation columns, and heat exchangers rank among the most important process cost centers. How these units are

located, sequenced and interconnected will have an enormous impact on a facility's cost and lifecycle operating

results.

AES Conceptual Engineering products provide a broad set of capabilities enabling the analysis and optimization of these

units as an integral part of a process simulation. They guide and support engineers analysis and decision-making, helping

them avoid long and costly trial-and-error approaches to difficult separation problems. They automatically generate

possible distillation solutions as well as analyze heat exchanger networks to optimize energy use. The valuable insights

possible through these products provide into complex processes enable engineers to make the most profitable trade-offs

between capital and operating costs.

AES Conceptual Engineering products include:

DISTIL/ Aspen Split. Rapidly explore multiple separation schemes, identify optimal designs, improve process

understanding, and reduce design time. Synthesize distillation column sequences for azeotropic, non-ideal and other multi-

component systems. Rapidly screen such complex configurations as divided wall and thermally coupled columns. Analyze

Aspen Properties

ComThermo


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Steady State products include:

Aspen Plus. Carryout steady-state

simulation of chemical or pharmaceutical

processes, including non-ideal, electrolytic,

and solid systems. Combine sequential

modular, equation-oriented, and mixed

solution methodologies to achieve fast

calculation and leverage full specification

flexibility. Use the extensive unit operation

model library, sensitivity analysis tools,

expert systems, automatic sequencing and

convergence methods, and extensive

reporting capabilities. Leverage your

modeling investments by scaling them from

single models to enterprise accessible full

facility flowsheets.

HYSYS. Carryout steady-state simulation of oil and gas and

refining processes. Use industry-specific unit operation models

and powerful tools to optimize operating parameters for

feedstock changes. Interactively make decisions by getting

immediate responses to assumptions using a high-speed

engine with backward calculation capabilities.

Aspen Plus Optimizer. Run automatic profit and process

optimization and data reconciliation of large-scale Aspen Plus

models based on weighted, user-defined objectives. Use rapid

robust convergence for real-time solutions with models complex

enough to address true unit economics. Supports Web delivery,

so plant engineers can maximize profits through continuous

process optimization.

Aspen OnLine. Use process models for online, real-time optimization of plant operations. Use plant data sources to analyze

and validate plant model results against plant operations. Automatically manage gross error detection, data-reconciliation using

actual plant data, optimization with Aspen Plus and the Aspen Plus Optimizer, then use the results to feedback new operating

parameters to the plant digital control system (DCS).

Dynamics products include:

Aspen Dynamics. Carryout dynamic simulation of

transition states of chemical and pharmaceutical

processes modeled in Aspen Plus. Address operability

challenges, feedstock and product mix transition,

startup, shutdown, pressure relief, and runaway

conditions. Determine best operating and control

strategies for column startup, batch, semi-batch and

continuous processes with dynamic optimization.

Aspen Dynamics

Aspen Plus

HYSYS

AspenTech is a strategic supplier of engineering

tools and know-how to Dow. We expect value

measured in multiple millions of dollars annually

from the capture and broad use of the plant

information asset, leading to increased engineering

productivity, reduced asset investment costs and

greater asset utilization.

Bob Donaho

Director of Design Engineerg / Design TechnologyDow


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HYSYS Dynamics. Carryout dynamic transition

state simulation of oil & gas and refining processes

modeled in HYSYS. Determine optimum feed switch

strategies, startups, and shutdowns, as well as

properly assess safety procedures. Enhance design

requirements by understanding tradeoffs between

capital costs and operability.

Aspen Custom Modeler. Generate customized

steady-state and dynamic models of proprietary unit

operations by automatically solving user-input

chemical engineering equations. Fine-tune new and

existing reactors (including those that require partial

differential equations), separation systems, and

processes to improve safety, operability, and design.

Define time and event driven actions. Use models

created with Aspen Custom Modeler together with

Aspen Plus, Aspen Dynamics, and soon with HYSYS

and HYSYS Dynamics to combine your proprietary models with AspenTech's models and create powerful simulations for

optimal and accurate decisions.

Aspen Adsim. Simulate the full range of industrial gas and liquid adsorption processes to develop superior adsorbents,

design better adsorption processes, and improve plant operations. Include adsorption isotherms, mass transfer modeling, cycle

manager, heat effect modeling.

Aspen Chromatography. Simulate complex, highly interactive batch and simulated moving bed (SMB) chromatographic

processes used to separate and purify pharmaceutical, biotechnology, fine chemical, and food products. Separate optical

isomers (enantiomers), amino acids, proteins, and fructose from sucrose. Achieve significant benefits in design, yield, product

quality, capacity, and reduce operating costs.

Batch products include:

Batch Plus. Speed products to market with highly

scalable, recipe-based batch simulations. Scale

recipes and processes from laboratory molecular

synthesis through creation of an entire manufacturing

facility. Support rapid chemical route selection,

process alternative screening, make-versus-buy

decisions, manufacturing scale-up, and

debottlenecking. Dramatically improve productivity

throughout the entire development and engineering

process.

BatchCAD. Model batch process reaction kinetics and reactors, including reactive distillation, batch fractionation, and

reactions under reflux. Build rigorous models and quickly compare multiple alternatives from lab bench through pilot plant

trials and scale-up. Use simulations to augment and direct laboratory experiments. Determine constants and reaction orders in

complex chemical systems. Predict column startup, pressurization, and azeotrope formation.

Oil & Gas products include:

Aspen AssetBuilder. To be released soon. Carry out concurrent field planning, production scheduling, asset visualization and

real-time asset optimization, from reservoir through process for Oil & Gas assets with a new, first-principles, model-based,

solution. Use a single integrated asset model framework for the upstream segment leveraging consistent and trusted domain

software applications, such as HYSYS. Ensure decision making in Field Planning, Production Scheduling and Real-Time

Optimization are all aligned with the asset Key Performance Indicators and are targeted at extending the lifetime of an

operating asset while optimizing its daily performance and return on capital employed (ROCE).

HYSYS Dynamics

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HYSYS Upstream. To be released soon. Use industry-

proven methodologies to predict the behavior of the

production fluid and integrate the reservoir

characterization with the process facility simulation.

Since accurate compositional analysis in the reservoir

or at the wellhead is rare, leverage the two main industry

methodologies used by petroleum and production

engineers Black Oil Thermodynamics and PVT Analysis both provided by industry-leading technology companies

in this area.

Use a standard hydraulics data model for the integration

of industry hydraulic applicatons into process simulations.

Analyze hydraulic systems with a consistent topology

definition of the network with any third party steady-state

or transient flowline code. Integrate, within HYSYS,

flowline simulators such as PIPESIM-NET from

Schlumberger.

FLARENET. Design, rate and debottleneck single and multiple flare and vent systems. Calculate minimum sizes for new flare

systems, or screen alternatives to relieve bottlenecks in existing networks. Identify dangerous relief scenarios during design

phase while demonstrating regulatory compliance of plant flare and vent systems.

ProFES 2P Tran/ ProFES 3P Tran/ ProFES Tranflo. Model steady state and dynamic behavior of multiphase flows in

wells and pipelines. Account for two-phases, sand and slugs. Economically size pipelines, separators, slug catchers, and other

equipment by modeling liquid and gas surges. Optimize startup, shutdown, and injection and depressurization rates. Predict

behavior of complex three-phase oil, water, and gas flows. Provide solutions for systems with high water cuts, oil-water

segregation problems, or vulnerability to corrosion.

HYSYS PIPESYS. Accurately model single and multiphase flows to design, debottleneck, and optimize pipeline systems.

Account for pipeline elevation profiles, inline equipment, pipe composition and roughness, and fluid properties. Model

networks with multiple flow paths. Perform forward and reverse pressure calculations. Compute detailed pressure and

temperature profiles for onshore and offshore systems. Perform sensitivity calculations for system dependencies.

HYSYS OLGAS. Use industry-standard pipeline and well bore sizing correlations within HYSYS. Calculate pressure gradients,

liquid holdups, and flow regimes.

Refining products include:

Aspen RefSYS. A jointly developed software and services solution from AspenTech and UOP that will soon be released

Carry-out refinery-wide simulation to identify the most profitable crude purchasing and refinery operating strategy. Go beyond

traditional modeling solutions that can only simulate individual process units, optimize with Aspen RefSYS refinery-wide

performance with accuracy and confidence using an integrated model of the entire facilities. Combine flowsheet simulation

with accurate kinetic reactor models to make improved economic decisions throughout the refinery, from crude feed to final

product blending. Generate additional benefits and increase refinery margins by leveraging data generated from Aspen RefSYS

for enhanced, knowledge-based, planning and scheduling decisions.

Aspen FCC. Simulate, monitor, plan, and optimize fluid catalytic crackers (FCCs), for a broad range of feedstocks catalysts,

and operating conditions, including the riser/reactor and regenerator kinetics.

Aspen CatRef. Simulate, monitor, plan, and optimize catalytic reformers for a broad range of feedstocks catalysts, and

operating conditions, including catalyst operation, coke formation, and catalyst activity.

Aspen Hydrocracker/ Aspen Hydrotreater. Simulate, monitor, plan, and optimize hydrocrackers and hydrotreaters for a

broad range of feedstocks catalysts, and operating conditions. Predict yields using simplified or fully rigorous fractionation

models based on unit capabilities, feedstock characterization, and catalyst activity.

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Utilities products include:

Aspen Utilities. Improve the purchase, supply, and

use of fuel, steam, and power within real-time

environmental constraints. Optimize any utility system

flowsheet to define minimum operating costs in a

single process or an entire facility. Maximize use of

most efficient equipment. Enhance choice and use of

fuels. Reduce hot standby and steam venting.

Forecast utilities demand. Identify cost-effective utility

suppliers and manage contracts. Avoid penalties due

to contract and tariff terms.

Design Knowledge products include:

Process Manuals. Access in-depth specialized information on process

selection, design, optimization and troubleshooting of solids and separation

unit operations not easily described by first principles thermodynamics.

Improve productivity by accessing a web-based on-line library on bulk

solids and slurry handling, crystallization, drying, gas cleaning, solid-liquid

separation (including filtration and centrifugation), solvent extraction, andwastewater treatment. Utilize the Mini Manual Series including

instrumentation, property measurement, adsorption, comminution,

granulation, and overall process design.

Process Tools. Use expert systems to select and troubleshoot equipment for solids and separation processes. Perform

detailed modeling to optimize design and operation.

Aspen PEP Process Library. Use Aspen Plus or Polymers Plus to run simulations on flowsheet models developed by SRIC's

Process Economics Program (PEP). PEP models existing and emerging process routes used to produce economically

significant chemicals and polymers. Speed planning and decision making through rapid case study analysis without building

initial models from scratch.

Equipment Design and Rating

Accurate Equipment Design is critical for plants to operate at the projected performance. Further more, properly

rating existing equipment within a process simulation enables to truly optimize plant performance and to reduce

revamp costs without introducing project risks. Heat exchangers play crucial roles in many processes. They are

typically conservatively designed and rated. Yet this approach carries a severe penalty. Not only does it boost capital

budgets, it also builds higher operating costs into a facility while making its processes more difficult to control.

The AES Equipment Design and Rating products enable the rating and design of Heat Exchangers. They complete the

Distillation and Towers trays and packing equipment design and rating capabilities, and the Rotating Equipment Rating

capabilities included in the AES Simulation & Optimization products.

AES Equipment Design and Rating products offer specialized capabilities to accurately size and rate heat exchangers,

which represent a substantial part of any facility's capital budget. They provide the analytical muscle to trim operatingcosts by controlling energy consumption. AES Equipment Design and Rating products, or Aspen HTFS+ (including Aspen

B-JAC products), deliver the complete solution for air coolers, shell-and-tube heat exchangers, thermo-reboilers, plate

heat exchangers, and other designs. They integrate accurate heat exchange correlations with cost evaluation, and support

detailed mechanical design and rating right down to vibration testing and other detailed simulations.

Models integrate seamlessly with other AES products. This enables, for example, engineers to plug heat exchanger

models in AES Simulation & Optimization Products, making them an integral part of process simulation and optimization.

The results of integrated equipment and process simulation can yield significant savings in both capital and operating

costs.

AspenTech promotes and leads scientific progress and information exchange in the heat exchange area through its HTFS

Research Network. Members of this Network have access to research papers and reports of pilot experiments and

measurements. When appropriate, the scientific progress is incorporated into the AES Equipment Design and Ratingproducts.

Aspen Utilities

In the first year, we achieved millions of Euros of

savings through the utilties optimization of our 55

plants, with recurring annual benefits. We now

have an improved understanding of our processes,

which is helping us make better decisions at the

business level.

Jeroen In de Braak

Process Engineer

Performance Materials & Industrial Chemicals

DSM


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AES Equipment Design and Rating products include:

ACOL/ Aspen Aerotran. Simulate and design air-cooled heat exchangers, heat recovery units, air conditioning, refrigeration

and intercoolers.

TASC-Thermal. Design, rate, and simulate the thermal

performance of shell-and-tube heat exchangers.

Aspen Teams/ TASC-Mechanical. Create and rate the

mechanical design of shell and tube heat exchangers and

basic pressure vessels to ASME, CODAP and AD

Merkbltter standards.

FIHR. Simulate the performance of gas or oil fired

process heaters including well-stirred and one dimensional

zone models of the firebox and convection section with up to 10 process streams in the heater.

APLE. Design, rate and simulate plate and frame or brazed plate heat exchangers including single-phase and two-phase

applications.

MUSE. Design, rate and simulate multistream plate-fin heat exchangers as used in cold box applications for air separation,

LNG and ethylene processes.

FRAN. Simulate and rate thermal performance of conventional closed loop shell and tube feedwater heaters as applied in

power applications.

PIPE. Simulate unbranched pipeline systems carrying single phase and single or multi-component two phase flashing fluids.

Study steady state two-phase compressible flow calculations for relief systems including multiple chokes.

TICP. Design and model the thermal insulation for process pipework. Leverage expertise from the CINI insulation trade

association and the properties of recognized insulation materials.

ACX. Design and rate Air-cooled heat exchangers with methods based on open-literature.

STX. Design and rate Shell and Tube heat exchangers with methods based on open-literature.

TASC

Aspen Teams

AspenTechbrings detailed modeling knowledge to the business level to drive profitability in the production process.

Ralf Janowsky

Director of Computer-aided Process EngineeringDegussa AG


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A Tradition of Innovation

AspenTech was founded in 1981 to commercialize innovative technology developed by the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology's Advanced System for Process Engineering (ASPEN) project. We went public in October 1994. Since then we

have pursued our vision of a complete integrated EOM solution for the process industries through internal innovation, the

integration and extension of existing products, and the acquisition of more than 20 industry-leading companies.

The Aspen Engineering Suite is the result of many major industry-leading PaLM innovations such as:

Delivering economic evaluation software as early as 1969

Creation of the leading commercially available conceptual estimating tool which is unique in utilizing parametric algorithms to

model engineering, design, material, fabrication and installation costs for process facilities.

The Inside-Out algorithm and the robust equation oriented algorithm to easily and quickly model the most complex distillation

or separation towers.

An integrated and thermodynamically consistent approach to model and optimize chemical processes with electrolytes.

An revolutionary segment-based modeling methodology to model and optimize polymerization chemistries and polymer

manufacturing processes.

Open and versatile physical property models and data that cover processes ranging from Oil & Gas, Refining, Chemicals,

Polymers, Specialty Chemicals to Pharmaceuticals.

The introduction of the combined Equation Oriented and Sequential Modular flowsheet solving techniques for engineering

specification flexibility, and fast and robust calculations.

The usage of rigorous models for real-time optimization and the integration of simulation models with planning and supply

chain processes for integrated decision making.

Robust and Easy to Use Dynamic Simulation capabilities for operability and safety analysis.

The delivery of truly integrated engineering environment for collaborative engineering.

A unique way to carry out projects economic evaluations from the initial idea down to the final detailed design for optimal

decision making.

Breakthroughs in heat exchange principles in-depths understanding allowing accurate and safe designs.

Creation of a unique resource loaded intelligently linked automatic schedule generation algorithm aligning estimating and

project scheduling.

The introduction of process simulation on the PC and the use of Microsoft Windows

Leveraging the Internet to securely bring plant models to the fingertips of plant operations and business decision-makers.

The expert system guidance and unique ease-of-use software designs to enable engineers to quickly generate results

The definition and the implementation of Open Interfaces and Data models allowing the integration of in-house and third party

software products and automated data exchange.

This track record of innovation combined with Industry Proven applications is the basis for our proud and the guarantee

for our customers that using AES gives them a leading edge in Process Asset Lifecycle Management.

We are poised to continue to innovate, to create new approaches, to leverage new ideas, and to get the most out of IT

advances. Above all, we will continue to innovate by closely working with our customers, listening to their needs,

understanding their business processes and proposing new approaches.

AspenTech is making collaborative engieering a reality for the process industries.

Ashish Shah

Director, Automation, Process Technology Energy & ChemicalsFluor


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