Ensure Safe Operations with

Relief Sizing in Aspen HYSYS

and Aspen Plus
11 November 2014

Presenter Name, Presenter Title

Consulting November
Director,11,
AspenTech
2014

Saif Sheikh, Business

Gulam Farooq, Senior Principle Business Consultant, AspenTech

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AspenTech Relief Sizing Solutions

Aspen HYSYS

Aspen Plus

Relief Sizing (Safety

Environment)
Depressuring Utility

PRD Rating Utility

Relief Valve in
HYSYS Dynamics

Relief Valve in Aspen

Plus Dynamics

Aspen Flare System Analyzer

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Agenda
Introduction
Now in Aspen Plus!
Demonstration
Whats New in V8.6
Demonstrations
Questions and Answers

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Agenda
Introduction
Now in Aspen Plus!
Demonstration
Whats New in V8.6
Demonstrations
Questions and Answers

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What are Pressure Safety Valves?

Relief valves
and/or rupture
disks relieves
pressure 2

Flare system
safely burns
excess 4

Gas is directed to
flare
3
Process
Plant
Equipment
builds up
pressure 1

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What are Pressure Safety Valves?

Size relief valves
and rupture
disks2 2
Design and
rate flare
system 3

Protect process equipment

Process Plant
Identify relief
scenarios 1

Relieve pressure build-up

Critical to plant safety
Part of every process plant

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Agenda
Introduction
Now in Aspen Plus!
Demonstration
Whats New in V8.6
Demonstrations
Questions and Answers

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Agenda
Introduction
Now in Aspen Plus!
Demonstration
Whats New in V8.6
Demonstrations
Questions and Answers

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Pressure Safety Valve Sizing (PSV Plus)

Introduced in Aspen HYSYS V8.3

(August 2013)

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Pressure Safety Valve Sizing

Relief Valve

Aspen Flare System Analyzer

Acquired in Sept 2012

Aspen HYSYS
or Aspen Plus
Part of every project
Multiple scenarios evaluated
Safety is highest priority

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Relief Sizing in Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus

Ensure Data
Accuracy

Incorporate
Standards

Relief Sizing in
ASPEN HYSYS and
ASPEN PLUS

Develop
Regulatory
Reports

Consider Multiple
Scenarios

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Agenda
Introduction
Now in Aspen Plus!
Demonstration
Whats New in V8.6
Demonstrations
Questions and Answers

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Agenda
Introduction
Now in Aspen Plus!
Demonstration
Whats New in V8.6
Demonstrations
Questions and Answers

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Whats new with Pressure Safety in

aspenONE Engineering?

Topic

Aspen
HYSYS V8.4

PSV Sizing (API 520)

Relief Load Calculations (API 521)
PSV in/out Line Sizing
PSV Documentation
Link with Flare Analyzer
Low Pressure Tank Protection (API 2000)
Fire Relief load determination
Multiple Valve Analysis

PSV introduced in
Aspen HYSYS

Independent Rupture disk analysis

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Aspen
Plus V8.4

Whats new with Pressure Safety in

aspenONE Engineering?

Topic

Aspen
HYSYS V8.4

PSV Sizing (API 520)

Relief Load Calculations (API 521)
PSV in/out Line Sizing
PSV Documentation
Link with Flare Analyzer
Low Pressure Tank Protection (API 2000)
Fire Relief load determination

PSV now available in

Aspen Plus!

Multiple Valve Analysis

Independent Rupture disk analysis

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Aspen
Plus V8.4

Whats new with Pressure Safety in

aspenONE Engineering?

Topic

Aspen
HYSYS V8.6

PSV Sizing (API 520)

Relief Load Calculations (API 521)
PSV in/out Line Sizing
PSV Documentation
Link with Flare Analyzer
Low Pressure Tank Protection (API 2000 7e)
Fire Relief Load Determination
Multiple Valve Analysis
Independent Rupture Disk Analysis
Aspen Flare System Analyzer Performance
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Aspen
Plus V8.6

Tank Protection
Whats
Tank
Protection
new?
Enhanced
Pool Fire

Comply with storage tank protection

standards

API 2000 5th [Annex A], 6th, 7th ed.

Inbreathing
Outbreathing
Fire

Multi-Valve
Analysis

Rupture
Disks.

Flare System
Analyzer

Note: Standards Update on support website required to

activate the API 2000 7e calculations
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External Fire Analysis

Tank
Protection

Whats
Enhanced
Pool
Fire
new?

API 521 Calculations Implemented

Based on feed stream to vessel, relieving
temperature and fluid properties calculated
Latent Heat Estimation for Wide Boiling Point
Hydrocarbon Fluids

New calculations implemented!

Multi-Valve
Analysis

Semi-Dynamic Flash
Supercritical Rigorous Method

Rupture
Disks

Flare System
Analyzer

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Fire Relief Load: Semi-Dynamic Analysis

Tank
Protection

Whats
Enhanced
Pool
Fire
new?

Flash liquid inventory sequentially over a

temperature range
Accounts for varying liquid level and composition
over the course of the fire

Multi-Valve
Analysis

In V8.6:
Automated
calculation

Rupture
Disks

Flare System
Analyzer

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Fire Relief Load: Rigorous Supercritical

Method
Tank
Protection

Whats
Enhanced
Pool
Fire
new?

Fluid flashed incrementally over a temperature range;

the change in specific volume over the range is used
to calculate the required relief load
Required orifice area calculated via direct integration
to maximum nozzle mass flux at each time step1

Multi-Valve
Analysis

In V8.6: Automated
calculation

Rupture
Disks

Flare System
Analyzer
1Implementation

Based on Rigorously Size Relief Valves for Supercritical Fluids Article by

Ryan Ouderkirk of Fluor
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Multiple Valve Analysis

Tank
Protection

Rate non-sizing scenarios with multiple valves to

predict chattering for certain scenarios, and better
predict required sizes

Enhanced
Pool Fire

Split single
valves into 210 valves

Whats
Multi-Valve
Analysis
new?

Adjust flow
split

Rupture
Disks

Export multi-valve
configuration to
AFSA

Flare System
Analyzer

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Rupture Disks
Tank
Protection

Enhanced
Pool Fire

Size rupture disk devices installed independent

of any PSVs
In addition to the option to size in combination
with PSVs
Two Methods:

Multi-Valve
Analysis

Discharge Coefficient

Flow Resistance (Only

available in Aspen Plus)

Whats
Rupture
Disks
new?
Flare System
Analyzer

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Aspen Flare System Analyzer (AFSA)

Tank
Protection

2x Faster!

Enhanced
Pool Fire

Multi-Valve
Analysis

Rupture
Disks

Whats
Flare
System
Analyzer
new?

Increase Accuracy while

Reducing Time!

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Recap

Tank
Protection

Enhanced
Pool Fire

Multi-Valve
Analysis

Rupture
Disks

Flare System
Analyzer
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Agenda
Introduction
Now in Aspen Plus!
Demonstration
Whats New in V8.6
Demonstrations
Questions and Answers

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Agenda
Introduction
Now in Aspen Plus!
Demonstration
Whats New in V8.6
Demonstrations
Questions and Answers

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PSV Sizing and Documentation

More Information
Jump Start Guides

Relief Sizing in Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus V8.6

Fire Overpressure Analysis
Multiple Valve Analysis
Storage Tank Protection

Computer Based Training: Getting Started with Relief Sizing

in Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Plus
Includes modules on all new features

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Q&A

Saif Shaikh
Saifuddin.Sheikh@aspentech.com
Gulam Farooq
Gulam.Farooq@aspentech.com

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Whats Next?

Consider a training class from AspenTech

Training website - http://training.aspentech.com

Email us: emea.training@aspentech.com
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Why AspenTech Training?

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product
understanding

Solution deployment time

Learning curve

Measure
performance

Develop skills

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Employee Satisfaction
Licensing standards/CEU

Achieve
business
objectives

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products

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Aspen Plus: Process Modelling

Course Overview

Begin modelling new and existing processes

Build and troubleshoot flow sheet simulations

Reduce process design time by evaluating various plant configurations

Determine optimal process conditions for new or existing processes

Help de-bottleneck processes

Product

Course ID

Course Name

Dates

Location

Language

Aspen Plus

EAP101

Aspen Plus: Process Modeling

Nov-24 Nov-26

Brussels,
Belgium

English

Aspen Plus

EAP101

Aspen Plus: Process Modeling

Nov-24 Nov-26

Madrid, Spain

Spanish

Aspen Plus

EAP101

Aspen Plus: Process Modeling

Nov-24 Nov-26

Reading, UK

English

Aspen Plus

EAP101

Aspen Plus: Process Modeling

Nov-24 Nov-26

Virtual-EMEA

English

http://support.aspentech.com/supportpublictrain/CourseInfo.asp?course=EAP101

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Aspen HYSYS: Process Modelling

Course Overview

Learn to build, navigate and optimize process simulations using Aspen HYSYS

Learn efficient use of different HYSYS functions to build steady state process simulations

Product

Course ID

Course Name

Dates

Location

Language

Aspen HYSYS

EHY101

Aspen HYSYS: Process

Modeling

Nov-16 Nov-18

Doha, Qatar

English

Aspen HYSYS

EHY101

Aspen HYSYS: Process

Modeling

Nov-17 Nov-19

Madrid, Spain

Spanish

Aspen HYSYS

EHY101

Aspen HYSYS: Process

Modeling

Dec-01 Dec-03

Reading, UK

English

Aspen HYSYS

EHY101

Aspen HYSYS: Process

Modeling

Dec-01 Dec-03

Virtual-EMEA

English

Aspen HYSYS

EHY101

Aspen HYSYS: Process

Modeling

Dec-08 Dec-10

Aberdeen, UK

English

http://support.aspentech.com/supportpublictrain/CourseInfo.asp?course=EHY101

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