Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger
Maximize process throughput through more efficient design and operation of your plate-fin heat exchangers
Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger is the latest generation of thermal design software for the design, simulation and rating of multi-stream plate-fin heat exchangers. Plate-fin exchangers are vital to the profitable operation of many modern gas processing applications including large-scale LNG production. Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE® Engineering applications.
Features
- Research Based Correlations: Models and correlations are based on more than 35 years of proprietary research, providing the user with assurance of reliable designs
- Operates under the Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating common User Interface
- Physical property packages: Aspen Properties and Aspen HYSYS Thermodynamics COM Interface
- Import of process information and physical properties from Aspen HYSYS®
- Calculation modes include design, stream-by-stream simulation, layer-by-layer simulation, or checking
- Single phase and two phase calculations
- Up to 20 process streams
- Co-current and counter-current flow, with any complexity of exchanger inlet and outlet geometry
- Plain, wavy, serrated, and perforated fins
- Exchanger, distributor, header and nozzle pressure drop calculations
- Exchanger diagrams provide guidance for input data review
- Integrated with Aspen HYSYS: High-level runtime integration enables engineers to rigorously model plate fin heat exchanger operation within the context of the overall process.
Benefits
- Improve Design: Ideal for manufacturers, engineering companies, and owner operators that require a robust, flexible program with accurate heat transfer and pressure drop methods. Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger provides this in a unique commercial package supported by authoritative research-based methods and validation.
- Improve Process Operations: Rigorous simulation of multi-stream, plate-fin units allows process engineers to optimize performance of LNG, ethylene, and air separation plants.
- Increase Engineering Efficiency: Internationally accepted Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger simulations can be used to evaluate vendor plate-fin designs with confidence.