UniSim Design

R451
Software Change Notice

Revision Date: February 13, 2017

Document ID: USDR451 SCN
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Notices and Trademarks

© Honeywell International Inc. 2017. All Rights Reserved.

While this information is presented in good faith and believed to be accurate, Honeywell disclaims the
implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose and makes no express
warranties except as may be stated in its written agreement with and for its customer.

In no event is Honeywell liable to anyone for any indirect, special or consequential damages. The
information and specifications in this document are subject to change without notice.

Other brand or product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

Honeywell International
Process Solutions
1860 West Rose Garden Lane
Phoenix, AZ, 85027, USA
+1 800-822-7673
www.honeywell.com/ps

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Symbol Definitions
The following table lists those symbols used in this document to denote certain conditions.

Symbol Definition

ATTENTION: Identifies information that requires special

consideration.

TIP: Identifies advice or hints for the user, often in terms of

performing a task.

REFERENCE -EXTERNAL: Identifies an additional source of

information outside of the bookset.

REFERENCE - INTERNAL: Identifies an additional source of

information within the bookset.

CAUTION Indicates a situation which, if not avoided, may result in equipment

or work (data) on the system being damaged or lost, or may result in
the inability to properly operate the process.

CAUTION: Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not

avoided, may result in minor or moderate injury. It may also be used
to alert against unsafe practices.
CAUTION symbol on the equipment refers the user to the product
manual for additional information. The symbol appears next to
required information in the manual.

WARNING: Indicates a potentially hazardous situation, which, if not

avoided, could result in serious injury or death.
WARNING symbol on the equipment refers the user to the product
manual for additional information. The symbol appears next to
required information in the manual.

WARNING, Risk of electrical shock: Potential shock hazard where

HAZARDOUS LIVE voltages greater than 30 Vrms, 42.4 Vpeak, or
60 VDC may be accessible.

ESD HAZARD: Danger of an electro-static discharge to which

equipment may be sensitive. Observe precautions for handling
electrostatic sensitive devices.

Protective Earth (PE) terminal: Provided for connection of the

protective earth (green or green/yellow) supply system conductor.

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 Symbol Definition

Functional earth terminal: Used for non-safety purposes such as

noise immunity improvement. NOTE: This connection shall be
bonded to Protective Earth at the source of supply in accordance
with national local electrical code requirements.

Earth Ground: Functional earth connection. NOTE: This

connection shall be bonded to Protective Earth at the source of
supply in accordance with national and local electrical code
requirements.

Chassis Ground: Identifies a connection to the chassis or frame of

the equipment shall be bonded to Protective Earth at the source of
supply in accordance with national and local electrical code
requirements.

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Contents
1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................7
1.1 About UniSim Design..................................................................................................................... 7
1.2 Technical Assistance ..................................................................................................................... 7
Contacts ........................................................................................................................................ 7
World Wide Web ................................................................................................................................... 7
Email Contact ........................................................................................................................................ 8
Telephone ........................................................................................................................................ 8

2 Contents of Release...........................................................................................................9

3 Getting Started ...................................................................................................................9

4 Release Overview.............................................................................................................10
4.1 New Features .............................................................................................................................. 10

5 Software/Hardware/Firmware Compatibility...................................................................11
5.1 System Requirements ................................................................................................................. 12
5.2 Conversion between UniSim Design and Aspen HYSYS Cases ................................................ 12

6 Documentation Updates/Additional Information ...........................................................13

7 Problems Resolved ..........................................................................................................14

8 Installation and Migration ................................................................................................16

9 Un-Install Instructions .....................................................................................................16

10 Issues................................................................................................................................16
10.1 Known Limitations in this Release ............................................................................................... 16

11 Third-Party Software Components .................................................................................17

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1 Introduction

1.1 About UniSim Design

UniSim Design Suite is a set of process modeling tools for simulation, design, performance monitoring,
optimization and business planning for the process industries.
UniSim Design includes the following features:
• Easy-to-Use Windows Environment: PFDs provide a clear and concise graphical representation
of the process flowsheet, including productivity features such as cut, copy, paste, auto
connection, and organizing large cases into sub-flowsheets.
• Comprehensive Thermodynamics Foundation: Ensures accurate calculation of physical
properties, transport properties, and phase behavior for the oil & gas and refining industries.
Contains an extensive component database and the ability to add user components.
• Active X (OLE Automation) Compliance: Permits the integration of user-created unit operations,
proprietary reaction kinetic expressions, and specialized property packages. Interfaces easily with
programs such as Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic.
• Comprehensive Unit Operations: Includes distillation, reactions, heat transfer operations, rotating
equipment, and logical operations in the steady state and dynamics environment. Proven to
deliver quality realistic results and handle various situations such as vessel emptying or
overflowing and reverse flow.

This software is covered by US patents 8484454, 8997023, 9053260 and their foreign equivalents and
others pending.

1.2 Technical Assistance

Contacts

Honeywell has a global team of experienced UniSim Design Support Engineers available to
assist you with installation, licensing, application and modeling questions. Contact them directly
by e-mail or phone.

World Wide Web

The following Honeywell web sites may be of interest to UniSim Design customers.

Honeywell Organization WWW Address (URL)

Corporate http://www.honeywell.com

Process Solutions http://www.honeywell.com/ps

UniSim Design Support http://unisim.supportportal.com

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Email Contact

Honeywell Email Address

UniSim Design Support unisim.support@honeywell.com

Telephone
Contact us by telephone (toll free) at the numbers listed below.

Location Phone Number

North America Support Honeywell International Inc. 1-800-822-7673

Center Process Solutions
(08:00 to 16:00 DST -
0600 GMT)

Latin America (Buenos Aires, not toll-free) 54 11 4324 5900 Ext. 1929
Support Center
(09:00 to 18:00
Standard Time -0300
GMT)

Europe Support Centre +32 2 728 2200 (not toll-free)

(09:00 to 17:30 Central
European Time +0100
GMT)

Austria 0800 291841

Belgium 0800 80241

Denmark 80886918

Finland 0800 914425

France 0800 907384

Germany 0800 1810964

Ireland 1800 946772

Italy 800969512

Netherlands 0800 0221134

Norway 800 15209

South Africa 0800 991484

Spain 900 998920

Sweden 0207 95711

Switzerland 0800 564613

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 Location Phone Number

UK 0800 0281744

Asia Pacific (AP) - China 800-820-0237

Contact local 400-820-0386
Honeywell Affiliate
support Line

Taiwan 0800-666-051

Singapore 6823-2215

Vietnam +65 6823-2215

Brunei
Pakistan

Malaysia 1800-812-674

The Philippines 1800-1441-0223

Indonesia 0018-03-440-212

Thailand 0018-004-415-283

India +91-80-2658 8360

Extension: 48683/48686

Japan +81 3 6730 7220

Korea 080-782-2255
+82-2-3483-1161

Pacific 1300-36-GTAC

2 Contents of Release

Table 1 UniSim Design

Product
UniSim Design R451 Software Package
UniSim Design Standard Documentation

3 Getting Started
It is recommended that you read the UniSim Design Suite R451 SCN (this document) first,
followed by the UniSim Design Suite Installation Guide before proceeding with the installation.

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4 Release Overview

4.1 New Features

This release contains the following enhancements:

Propagation of Refining Properties

All Refinery properties can now be propagated across all unit operation and subflowsheets.

PPR78 Enhancement - Regression of PPR Binary Coefficients

The model automatically generate BIPs over a range of temperatures and regresses the values
to fit the parameters of the generic USD BIP temperature dependent equation. The results of
the data generation and the coefficient fits is separate from the actual specifications of BIP. For
each component pair’s estimation, the user is able to modify the temperature range for the
generation of data and also to set individual parameters to zero thereby modifying the
regression.

Oil Blend Breakup

The Cut Option Selection/User Ranges Can now be modified in the Oil Manager. This option
allows the Starting Cut Point to be lower than the IBP of the Blend and the Ending Cut Point to
be higher than the EP of the Blend. If there is no material in the Blend within a particular range,
then the Hypo component would have zero flow, but would still be characterized.

Vapor Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity

The viscosity and thermal conductivity for the water and hydrogen free portion of the vapor
phase is now calculated using the USD methods at the system temperature and "zero"
pressure.

Adjust-Recycle Manager Enhancement

Provides the capability to add SSOVs to ARM Groups. When in an ARM Group, the capability of
ignoring the execution is provided.

USE-IT/Browser - Give general access to USD Utilities (BP Curves Utility performance
table)
We Enhanced the USE-IT/Browser capabilities to be able to access UniSim Design Utilities
generally (particularly the Boiling Point Curves performance datatable). Data can now be
retrieved using USE-IT/Browser or a custom OLE Automation solution spreadsheet.

Calculation Order Utility Enhancement

Enabled an Adjust-Recycle Manager Group to be a Trigger object in the Calculation Order
Utility.

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Direct link between UniSim Design with Haverly H/CAMS
The Crude Manager has been enhanced to be able to directly import crude assays from Haverly
H/CAMS.

Refinery Property Plots Utility

The stream property plot allows you to plot stream component properties. The main intention it
to be able to see a plot of property slate vectors.

LP Vector Generation Utility

New feature for generating vectors for LP model tuning (representing a unit operation or a
process area), by tracking specified simulated or plant historical process variables. It includes
visualization features for determining how well the LP model fits the data. The LP vectors can
be copied/pasted or communicated via OLE to Excel.

Extend Flowsheet lock/hide to block OLE/COM access

The Lock page on Column and Template views has been updated to include an "Allow access
via OLE" checkbox. Old cases will recall with this checkbox defaulting to checked (allowing
OLE access, preserving old functionality). New cases or newly created columns and templates
will default to unchecked - so by default, OLE access will not be allowed when locking and
hiding a flowsheet.

GCEOS Thermodynamics Enhancement

USD GCEOS interface now allows specification Kappa1 = 0 for Tr > 0.7.

Compressor Curve Enhancement

The user input Pressure Ratio Curve data will be converted into Head Curve data by a rigorous
model using inlet fluid properties or by a formula from GPSA handbook if Pressure Ratio Option
is selected. The head curves are used to solve the compressor.

Hydrate Utility Enhancement

This utility is enhanced with backup calculations to eliminate most discontinuity.

Data Management Spreadsheet (DMS)

Excel-based tool used for process data management, auditing and reporting purposes. It can
retrieve the data from process simulation case(s) and report it by equipment type, it can update
a selected case, it can generate stream, exception and instrument reports, and it can generate
rotating equipment curves. DMS is supported for 32x bit and 64x bit excel applications.

5 Software/Hardware/Firmware Compatibility

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5.1 System Requirements
Refer to the Installation Guide.htm for the System Requirements.

5.2 Conversion between UniSim Design and Aspen HYSYS Cases

The table below shows the version compatibility between UniSim® Design and HYSYS. It lists
the latest version of HYSYS cases that each version of UniSim Design can read, and the
version of HYSYS cases that are written when the Save As hsc case option is selected.

UniSim® Design Reads Aspen HYSYS cases Saves as Aspen HYSYS…

saved in …
Version Build Version Build Version Build
Number Number Number
R350 11048 HYSYS 2004 and 6150 HYSYS 2004 6150
earlier
R350.1.1 11051 HYSYS 2004 and 6150 HYSYS 2004 6150
earlier
R350.5 11055 HYSYS 2004.1 and 6510 HYSYS 2004.1 6510
earlier
R360 12071 HYSYS 2004.2 and 6612 HYSYS 2004.2 6612
earlier
R360.1 12105 HYSYS 2004.2 and 6612 HYSYS 2004.2 6612
earlier
R370 13058 HYSYS 2006 and 6728 HYSYS 2006 6728
earlier
R370.1 13063 HYSYS 2006 and 6728 HYSYS 2006 6728
earlier
R380 14027 HYSYS 2006 CP1 6729 HYSYS 2006 6729
and earlier CP1
R380.1 14119 HYSYS 2006.5 and 6924 HYSYS 2006 6729
earlier* CP1
R390 15055 HYSYS 2006.5 and 6924 HYSYS 2006 6729
earlier* CP1
R390.1 15107 HYSYS v7.1 and 7119 HYSYS 2006 6729
earlier* CP1
R400 16066 HYSYS v7.2 and 7263 HYSYS 2006 6729
earlier* CP1
R410 17061 HYSYS v7.3.0.1 7337 HYSYS 2006 6729
and earlier* CP1
R430 18053 HYSYS v8 and 8138 HYSYS 2006 6729
earlier* CP1
R440 19083 HYSYS v8.6 and 8628 HYSYS 2006 6729
earlier* CP1
R442 19107 HYSYS v8.6 and 8628 HYSYS 2006 6729
earlier* CP1

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 UniSim® Design Reads Aspen HYSYS cases Saves as Aspen HYSYS…
saved in …
R443 19151 HYSYS v8.6 and 8628 HYSYS 2006 6729
earlier* CP1

R450 20053 HYSYS v9.0 and 90270 HYSYS 2006 6729

earlier* CP1
R451 20113 HYSYS v9.0 and 90270 HYSYS 2006 6729
earlier* CP1

*Note. As part of the sale of the HYSYS IP by AspenTech to Honeywell, Honeywell only
received source code updates up to and including HYSYS 2006 CP1. However UniSim Design
will also attempt to open HYSYS files listed in the table above. This file compatibility is intended
as a migration method not an interoperability method and is supplied as is; it is the responsibility
of the user to check any cases opened in this way.

UniSim Design can coexist on the same PC as Aspen HYSYS without interference.
By default the file open dialogs in UniSim Design will show both UniSim Design (.usc) and
HYSYS (.hsc) cases. Opening a .hsc case in UniSim Design will automatically convert the case
– saving that same case will create a .usc file.

To save back to HYSYS format save the case with the .hsc extension, either by selecting
HYSYS from the ‘Save As Type’ or ‘File Filter’ list, or by appending the .hsc extension to the file
name.

Note that other custom file types used by UniSim Design and HYSYS may not be compatible.
For example, UniSim Design may be able to open .col files from HYSYS, but the opposite is not
true – HYSYS cannot open files created by UniSim Design other than .hsc files.

UniSim Design versions of extension unit operations or other extension types must be
registered with UniSim using UniSim Design’s regextn.exe.

For additional Software/Hardware/Firmware Compatibility, please refer to the UniSim Design

Suite Installation Guide.

6 Documentation Updates/Additional Information

This list of documents available with this release are outlined in the USD_Document_Index.htm
available in the Documentation folder.

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 7 Problems Resolved

DEFECT DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM RESOLUTION

1-6PO3X0Z DBR Amine: Efficiency calculation fail in sub-flowsheet
environment. Efficiency calculation in sub-
flowsheet environment is fixed.
1-6K2UVAR User got a consistency error related to a pipe whose inlet
stream is a two phase fluid (steam and liquid water). This The enthalpy inconsistency issue
is caused enthalpy inconsistency. is fixed.
1-6KPPOJF Duplicate Unit Operation appearing on TWO flowsheets Objects added to main flowsheet
due to erroneous tracking of main flowsheet in sub- will no longer appear in other
flowsheet. sub-flowsheets.
1-6GVGH2N Column: Reboiler delta P can't be edited after switching After changing Pressure
Pressure Spec Type (TrayDeltaP to Pressure) Specification Type from
TrayDeltaP to Pressure, the user
can now modify Reboiler Delta P
value.
1-6GUJ4GF If Pressure Specification Type is set to TrayDeltaP, the A change the column pressure
column cannot converge until an initial value assigned to and pressure drop from real
every stage of the column. variables to Process Variables.
1-6GPK9W1 IFACE: integer time shows in sec but status bar time Fixed so a change to units for
shows in min with wrong value-1sec shows as 1min integrator time made while in
steady state will be processed
properly if case is then saved and
recalled without first going to
dynamics.
1-6FJ9P6I EO Blowdown: Wrong pressure profile in the source
vessels (by comparison with Blowdown 2000). The The incorrect profile is
problem only happens when the KO Drum is present. understood and fixed.
1-6FIDW9S NOVA SQP Solver give incorrect optimal value whereas
Honeywell SQP solver gives correct value in USD R450.
Problem has been fixed
1-6D5K9F3 USD spreadsheet: some cells cannot be cleaned by Some cells originating from an
pressing “Delete” Aspen HYSYS cases recall with
unknown type and an evaluation
error. Now patched on recall.
1-6ASQ5YJ Unable to position new stream in between two stream or
certain vicinity in the PFD environment. Occurs only in PC
using Japanese font Problem has been fixed
1-6AKKJEQ Performance degradation in Recycle Unit Operation is Both tolerance control and
observed when Refinery properties are used. Wegstein Acceleration have now
been applied to the slate
properties in the Recycle unit
operation.
1-68XV6PH EO Blowdown: case solves but nozzle location is none
Pop up an error message if a
non-sink vessel has no Nozzle.
1-68XV6PU EO Blowdown case with no liquid1 phase initially, a big
pressure drop between source and intermediate vessel
with user holdup, causing occasional zero flows during the Modified to add Friedel pressure
solve. That would lead to failure to solve. Nonlinearity in drop option to trigger the
the Friedel pressure drop correlation and the inability of conservative initialization mode to
the pipe model to allow zero flow were the main solve the case with for total liquid
contributors to the failure. specification.

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 DEFECT DESCRIPTION OF PROBLEM RESOLUTION
1-68XPFIV EO Blowdown: results change with each run Results now no longer change in
each run.
1-68N51E2 When exporting Sub Flowsheet, though the reaction is not
in use by the sub-flowsheet, it gets deleted. Reaction sets are protected
during export.
1-5PVPHU4 General: Mach number > 1 in PSV flange. Problem has been fixed.
1-53CID0U Customized Pipe Schedule data changed silently leading
to change in results.
Problem has been fixed.
1-4Y04K92 UniSim Flare: Display using significant figure check box
issue.
Problem has been fixed.
1-4RCSZ51 Gibbs Reactor not robust with singular reactions Gibbs Reactor Solver speed
originating in zero amount of atom becomes much faster and robust
when such a singular system is
encountered.
1-4E0G101 Envelope Utility- results with UniSim Design Two-Phase
method are not consistent with Property table. Cause by
the different restrictions in Envelop Utility and Property More reasonable restriction in
table (Flash) for the trace components. Envelop utility has been set.
1-3R1FA0L Setting stream composition via Specs Scenarios in Setting stream composition via
Databook does not work Specs Scenarios in Databook
now works.
1-66SGP41 Consistency error has occurred in R450 Pipesegment PT flash and PH flash for the
same stream (with vapor fraction
specification) returns different
result.
1-5ZGGKXB Column Plots - BP Assay Curves - Data Control options
are greyed out. The column curve variable status was
incorrectly returning a status of calculated for many items They should all now be enabled
in that view, hence the items were incorrectly disabled. and work.
1-6W1U6UG OLE IsHypothetical property shows True even for library
components
Problem has been fixed
1-RN4F35 UniSim Flare to read Aspen Flare System Analyzer files The capability to read newer
from version 7.3 version of Flarenet cases has
been improved.
1-6KDXF4E UniSim Excel Interface: Issue with specific Stream Issue with fetching of Component
Component Properties (Vector) data from non-Default
Fluid Package is resolved.
1-6DARKPH Incorrect column behavior in a case of P spec in an outlet The problems are fixed. The
stream bottom stage pressure will remain
calculated from the attached
stream for any pressure spec
types.

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8 Installation and Migration
Refer to the Installation Guide for details on installing UniSim Design Suite 451.

9 Un-Install Instructions
Follow standard Windows uninstall procedure to un-install UniSim Design Suite 451

10 Issues

Based on information and data available to us to date, this section describes some currently
identified issues related to this release.

10.1 Known Limitations in this Release

10.1.1 Loading Very Large XML Cases

Depending on your system configurations and hardware, UniSim Design may not be able to
read very large XML cases depending on available memory. Note that there is no specific limit.

10.1.2 Simulation Balance Tool in Dynamics

The Simulation Balance Tool is an investigative tool which allows the user to quantify the
accuracy of the simulation. There can be many reasons for a certain degree of closure in
balances, one of which is the fact that UniSim Design is a numerical solver with inherent
accuracy limits. Some increases in accuracy can be obtained by the end user, particularly
gross inaccuracy caused by unit operations such as the Stream Cutter and undesirable
component mapping (this is just one example of how a user can configure their model with
reduced accuracy). At times there may be a cause of inaccuracy within the base simulation
software. Honeywell is committed to improving the accuracy of UniSim Design, particularly
dynamics, and the SBT is one tool that Honeywell will be using to analyze and improve
accuracy.

10.1.3 OLI Corrosion Analyzer

OLI Corrosion Analyzer and OLI Engine use different database files. Consequently, there may
be discrepancies in the results between OLI Corrosion Analyzer and UniSim Design OLI
Electrolyte flow sheet. A newer version of OLI Corrosion Analyzer has resolved this issue by
using the same database files as OLI Engine. However, as of UniSim Design R451 Release
time, the newer version is not yet available.

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10.1.4 Enforce Mass and Energy Balances
This is a new option for integration accuracy but it also includes a new formulation for the
Pressure-Flow equation of a holdup used to solve for pressure. This is commonly called the
Pressure Node equation. This equation can at times suffer from Pressure Flow Solver non-
convergence particularly when transition through a phase boundary from liquid to two phase or
vice-versa. Please report any such problems to UniSim Support for their advice.

10.1.5 Update to Flowsheet menu

The "Reaction Package" and "Fluid Package/Dynamics Model" pull down menu option has been
removed from the Flowsheet menu.

These are old legacy options that are not used and do not work properly.

10.1.6 EO Beggs and Brill Correlation

UniSim Design EO Pipe’s Beggs and Brill pressure drop correlation model may cause a
convergence issue during low flow scenarios and during phase change from vapour to two
phase.

11 Third-Party Software Components

Refer to the Installation Guide for details on Third-Party software.

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