Aspen Energy Analyzer

(formerly Aspen HX-Net®)

A powerful, conceptual design package for performing optimal heat exchanger network design

The competitiveness of today’s markets and the focus on energy efficiency requires improved heat-integrated process designs. Aspen Energy Analyzer—working in concert with flowsheet simulators like Aspen HYSYS® and Aspen Plus®—provides an easy environment to perform optimal heat exchanger network design and pinch analysis. Aspen Energy Analyzer is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE® Process Engineering applications.

Features

Calculates targets for energy and capital investment
Enables the development of improved heat integration projects, significantly reducing operating, capital, and design costs, and minimizing energy-related emissions
Provides tools for performing process optimization
Provides both graphical and algorithmic methods

Benefits

With the large number of design alternatives available, it is likely that a seemingly obvious solution obtained by inspection may be far from optimal. The task of developing an optimal heat-integrated design (based on capital and operating cost) can be complex. The solution then is to identify the best options without spending prohibitive amounts of resources to do so. Aspen Energy Analyzer helps maximize the reuse of heating and cooling duties within the system, with an optimal heat exchanger network. The duties that are not satisfied by heat recovery then require external utilities. This approach minimizes the external utility requirements, conserving energy and capital at a lower environmental impact.