Aspen Plus

Aspen Plus is a market-leading process modeling tool for conceptual design, optimization, and
performance monitoring for the chemical, polymer, specialty chemical, metals and minerals, and
coal power industries. Aspen Plus makes it easy to build and run a process simulation model by
providing you with a comprehensive system of online prompts, hypertext help, and expert system
guidance at every step.
Process simulation allows you to predict the behavior of a process by using basic engineering
relationships, such as mass and energy balances, and phase and chemical equilibrium. Given
reliable thermodynamic data, realistic operating conditions, and rigorous equipment models, you
can simulate actual plant behavior. Process simulation enables you to run many cases, conduct
"what if" analyses, and perform sensitivity studies and optimization runs. With simulation, you
can design better plants and increase profitability in existing plants.
A process consists of components being mixed, separated, heated, cooled, and converted by unit
operations. These components are transferred from unit to unit through process streams. By
following the required steps, one can translate a process into an Aspen Plus process simulation
model. When you have specified this information, you have defined an Aspen Plus process
simulation model of your process. You can use the Aspen Plus process simulation model to predict
process behavior. With Aspen Plus you can interactively change specifications, such as flow sheet
configuration, operating conditions, and feed compositions, to run new cases and analyze
alternatives. In addition to process simulation, Aspen Plus allows you to perform a wide range of
other tasks such as estimating and regressing physical properties, generating custom graphical and
tabular output results, data-fitting plant data to simulation models, costing your plant, optimizing
your process, and interfacing results to spreadsheets.