SIMULATION PROCESS.

ASPEN PLUS

Nestor Eduardo Sanchez MSc.

Separation Processes and New Technologies
Chemical Engineering
2017-1
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Predict the systems behavior

Chemical industry
Predict the chemical spicies behavior

➢Mass transfer
➢Energy transfer
➢Thermodynamics
➢Chemical enginering reactions

Isolated way
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Process
model

Chemical Operation
Flowchart
components units

Perform necessary
Hysis
calculations from
Computational subroutines using
Aspen ProII
simulation tools databases
Chemcad incorporated into
software
Other common
packages Require the construction of algorithms and enter
information on compounds and properties
Matlab - Excel
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Get into the cloud: www.cloud.unisabana.edu.co

Enter username and password

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Enter to the
“ESCRITORIO ASPEN”
by click.
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Look for
“Aspen Plus V9”
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Click on “New” to créate

a new simulation
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Select
“Chemical
Processes”
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Select
“Chemical with
Metric Units”
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Click-on Create
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Click-on Create
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Click-on “Find”
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1 Select “Begins with” if

you know the first Word
1 4 of your component.
2 5
3 Select “contains” if
2
you know any Word of
your component.

3 Select “equals” if you

know the exact name
of your component.

4 Write the name of your

component

Click-on “Find Now” to

5 look for your component
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1 In this screen, the

components are
displayed

Once you selected the

2
desire component, click
on “Add selected
1 compounds”

3 Close the windows

3
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Add water by written:

1. The molecular formula or
2. The component name or
3. The component ID
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Click on “NEXT” to go to the

thermodynamic package selection
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Click on “NEXT” to go to the

thermodynamic package selection
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1
2
1 Choose the proper
thermodynamic
package

Use the method

2
assistant to select the
proper
thermodynamic
package
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Click on “NEXT” and

press ok in the
“PROPERTIES INPUT
COMPLETE” screen to
run the simulation
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Click on “BINARY” to
draw a binary diagram.
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1 Select the analysis

1 Type: Txy, Pxy, Gibbs
energy of mixing
2
2 Select the most volatile
3 compound
4 3 Select the less volatile
compound

4 Select the basis

6 composition
5
5 Select the number of
points to draw

Select the pressure of

6
the system
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Once you have selected

all the parameters, click-
on “RUN ANALYSIS” to
draw the diagram.
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Click on “Binary-Input”
to return to the table
results
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Click on “Results” to see

all points of the diagram
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Click on “”xy” to draw a

xy diagram
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HOMEWORK

1. Bring the following diagrams:

1. T-xy Ethanol-water (1 Copy)
2. T-xy Methanol-water (1 copy)
3. T-xy Ethanol-Acetone (1 copy)
4. T-xy Toluene-Benzene (1 copy)
5. XY Ethanol-water (Several copies)
6. XY Methanol-water (Several copies)
7. XY Ethanol-Acetone (Several copies)
8. XY Toluene-Benzene (Several copies)
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Once you have run the “property analysis” Go to the simulation Environment.
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You can choose in

this Tab the
subrutine you need
to evaluate.
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In this tutorial, we are going to

select a Flash2 to model a flash
distillation system
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In this tutorial, we are going to select a

Flash2 to model a flash distillation
system. Click-on the image to select the
subrutine and then click-on the White
screen to insert the image.
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Click-on the image and the press

CRTL-M to put the name of your
“equip”
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Red rows means that you have to add

this stream. Blue rows means that you
can add an extra stream if you want
Click-on material to create a
mass or energy stream.
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Put the “cursor” on the red row to

add the material stream.

You can rename the stream name

if you select the stream and press
CRTL-M
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Once you have drawn

your flowsheet to add the
stream information.
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In this section you can

choose among
Temperature, pressure
or vapor fraction of the
feed stream
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In this section you have

to enter the stream
information
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In this section you have to

enter the stream
composition. Take care
with the variable that you
select. You should select
mole fraction or mass
fraction
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Once you have entered all

the stream information.
Click-on next to add the
block information.
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In this section you can select

among the Block variables, for a
flash distillator, the variables are:
Temperature, Pressure, Duty,
and vapor fraction.
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Once you have entered all the

information, click-on NEXT to run
the simulation.
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This message will appear, if

the simulation is ok.
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You can verify your results,

by clicking-on Streams in the
RESULTS SUMMARY TAB.
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The Sensitive Analysis allows to answer the question

WHAT IF…?. In this tutorial we want to answer What
happen with the ethanol composition in the vapor
phase, if we change the flash drum temperature?

To perform the sensitive analysis, you have to guarantee

that there are not any warming, error or severe error in the
simulation.
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Click-on Sensitivity in the Model Analysis Tool

to enter in Sensitive Analysis screen.
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Click-on NEW to create a Sensitive Analysis.

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Click-on Vary to define your independent variable. For our example, it must be the drum
temperature. You can only choose an independent variable that you have previously
defined in your simulation. You can choose among a BLOCK-VAR (i.e., variables related
with the subrutine), a STREAM-VAR (i.e., variables related with the stream), MASS-
FLOW, MOLE-FLOW, MOLE-FRAC, MASS-FRAC (i.e., variables related for an specific
component in terms of flow or composition)
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Click-on NEW to create a new INDEPENDENT VARIABLE.

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1. Click-on TYPE to select the kind of

variable. In this case we want to
evaluate the effect of the drum
temperature over the composition in the
vapor phase. For that reason you must
choose BLOCK-VAR

2. Click-on BLOCK to select the block

that you want to evaluate.

3. Click-on VARIABLE to select the

variable that you want to evaluate.
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In this section you must select

the evaluation RANGE
(From… °C until …°C). Also
you must select the
“increment”
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Once you have defined the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE in the VARY TAB, you can define
the DEPENDENT VARIABLE in the DEFINE TAB.

In our example, the DEPENDENT VARIABLE must be the composition of ethanol in the
vapor phase.
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Click-on one of the following options to select the kind of

variable you want to predict. In this case, we want to
predict the ethanol composition in the vapor phase, for that
reason is a STREAM VARIABLE.
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Click-on TYPE to select the kind of “sub-variable” you

want to predict. In this case, you must select Mole-Frac,
because you have to predict the ethanol composition in
the vapor phase.
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In this section, you have to select the stream and the

component that you want to evaluate.
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Once you have defined the DEPENDENT VARIABLE in

the DEFINE TAB, click-on TABULATE. In this TAB you
must write the variable name that you have previously
defined in the DEFINE TAB.
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To check the SENSITIVE ANALYSIS,

you should go to the RESULTS TAB
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In you want to PLOT your results,

click-on RESULTS CURVE.
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Sensitivity Results Curve

0,45
YI You can rename the axis, by
0,40 right click-on the

0,35

0,30
YI

0,25

0,20

0,15

0,10
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VARY 1 FLASH PARAM TEMPC
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You can rename the axis, by

right click-on the “axis name”