Chemical Process Simulations using Aspen Hysys

Preface xv Acknowledgments xix 1 Starting with Aspen HYSYS 1 1.1 HYSYS Menu Command to Ribbon Map 2 1.2 Starting Aspen HYSYS 7 1.3 Properties Environment 8 1.4 Creation of a New Simulation 8 1.5 Inserting Components to the Simulation 8 1.6 Adding the Fluid Package 10 1.7 Methods for Choosing Thermodynamics Model (Fluid Package) 11 1.8 Simulation Environment 15 1.9 Creating Material Streams 16 1.10 Summary 21 1.11 Printing 22 2 Physical and Thermodynamics Properties 25 2.1 Fluid Package 25 2.2 Steam Table 36 2.3 Bubble-Point and Dew-Point Calculations 38 2.4 Humidity Calculations 41 3 Pressure Change Equipment 47 3.1 Pump 47 3.2 Expander 53 3.3 Compressor 57 4 Heating and Cooling 65 4.1 Heat Exchanger 65 4.2 Air Cooler 73 4.3 Fired Heater 78 4.4 Summary 89 5 Flash Separator 93 5.1 Simulation of Flash Separator 94 5.2 Simulation of Evaporator 100 6 Logical Operations 113 6.1 Set Operation 113 6.2 Adjust Operation 114 6.3 Balance 117 6.4 Recycle 121 6.5 Spreadsheet 122 7 Piping Equipment 125 7.1 Pipe Segment 125 7.2 PIPESYS 135 7.3 Sizing of Pressure Relieve Valve 153 7.4 Summary 159 8 Reactors161 8.1 Reactor Types 161 8.2 Parameters in the Reactors 163 8.3 Conversion Reactor 164 8.4 Equilibrium Reactor 171 8.5 Miscellaneous Examples 179 8.6 CSTR (Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor) 198 8.7 Plug Flow Reactor 205 8.8 Gibbs Reactor 218 9 Separation Columns 231 9.1 Absorption Column 231 9.2 Gas Desorption (Stripping) 241 9.3 Distillation Column 241 9.4 Extraction Column 267 9.5 Miscellaneous Examples 273 10 Refinery Process 321 10.1 Refinery of Crude Oil 321 10.2 Simulation of Refinery Process 330 10.3 Summary 373 11 Optimizer 375 11.1 Simple Optimizer 375 11.2 Original Optimizer 383 11.3 Summary 388 12 Solid Operation 389 12.1 Cyclone 389 12.2 Rotary Vacuum Filter 398 12.3 Baghouse Filter 402 13 Dynamic-State Simulation 411 13.1 Problem Statement 1: Flash Separator 411 13.2 Problem Statement 2: Gas Processing 425 13.3 Advanced Control 445 13.4 Summary 467 14 Economic Evaluation 471 14.1 Problem Statement 471 14.2 Simulation 471 14.3 Summary 481 15 Plant-Wide Projects 483 15.1 Cyclohexane Production Plant 483 15.2 Production of Dimethyl_ether 486 15.3 Gas Sweetening 488 15.4 Propylene Production 490 15.5 Methanol Production 492 15.6 Production of Vinyl_Chloride_Monomer 494 References 496 Index 499