Aspen Teams®
Complete mechanical design or rating of shell & tube heat exchangers and basic pressure vessels.
When used in design mode, Aspen Teams optimizes the thicknesses of the majority of exchanger components, including flanges, tubesheets, expansion joints, supports, cylinder thicknesses, and nozzle reinforcement. In rating mode, Aspen Teams determines if the component thickness for an existing exchanger are adequate for a given set of design temperatures and pressures. Aspen Teams is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE™ Process Engineering applications.
Features
- TEMA Types: Incorporates all TEMA exchanger types.
- Codes Supported: ASME Section VIII, Div. 1, EN 13445, CODAP, and AD-Merkblatter.
- Supplemental Calculations: Zick stress analysis, minimum design metal temperatures, simultaneous internal/external pressure design, nozzle loads per WRC 107 or Heat Exchanger Institute, maximum allowable working pressures, material cladding, and wind & seismic loads.
- Supporting Standards: ASTM, DIN, AFNOR, TEMA Classes B, C, & R.
- Material Databases: ASME, DIN, CODAP, EN, and JIS.
- Costing Databases: Company operating standards, material standards, welding standards, labor efficiencies, material costs.
- Expansion Joints: Flanged only, flanged and flued, and various types of bellows.
- Graphics: Fully dimensioned setting plan, tubesheet layout, and detailed component drawings.
- Thermal and Mechanical Integration: Bi-directional integration with Aspen Tasc+ allows for efficient optimization to thermal and mechanical constraints.
Benefits
- Improved Design: Provides optimized equipment designs for a given set of design conditions, resulting in typical savings of 10% or more on the equipment cost per heat exchanger.
- Improved mechanical design quality Material properties from Aspen Teams extensive data banks, together with accurate thermal data from Aspen Tasc+, results in accurate stress calculations conforming to internationally accepted code standards and safety practices.
- Increased engineering efficiency: Enables increased emphasis on fast-track, front-end engineering through fully integrated tools for process design, exchanger thermal sizing, exchanger mechanical design, cost estimation, and drawings production, which are pre-requisite for cost effective projects.