Current Versions
Program |
Description |
Version |
AspenTech's new application for design, checking (rating) and simulation of shell and tube heat exchangers. |
2006.5 | |
Aspen Hetran |
A general purpose program for shell and tube heat exchangers which offers a range of calculation modes, to design, check, or simulate the performance of an exchanger as well as optimisation of the tubesheet layout. |
2006.5 2006.5 |
Mechanical
design for shell and tube heat exchangers, using
the ASME Code for all the pressure retaining components
of the exchanger, CODAP, EN 13445 and AD Merkblätter standards and the latest edition of TEMA. |
2006.5 |
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AspenTech's new application for design, checking (rating) and simulation of air-cooled and other crossflow heat exchangers. |
2006.5 | |
Aspen Aerotran |
For the design and performance simulation of air-cooled heat exchangers. The software can also be used to model a wide range of equipment in which air or gas flows over tube bundles, including heat recovery tube banks, economisers, air-conditioning units, wet air dehumidification, refrigeration coils and intercoolers. |
2006.5 2006.5 |
AspenTech's new application for the simulation of oil and gas fired heaters of the type used in process industry applications. |
2006.5 |
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For the simulation of oil and gas fired heaters of the type used in process industry applications such as hot oil heaters, refinery and reactor charge heaters, steam reformers, cracking furnaces and heat recovery duties. |
2006.5 |
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For the design and performance simulation of brazed aluminium plate-fin heat exchangers, the type used in cryogenic air separation plant, natural gas processing, liquefied natural gas and petrochemical production. |
2006.5 |
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Provides you with the facility of estimating of the steady state performance of an unbranched pipeline system carrying single phase or two-phase flows. |
2006.5 |
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For the modelling of feedwater heaters allowing you to estimate the thermal performance of conventional closed shell-and-tube type feedwater heaters used in power plant. |
2006.5 |
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AspenTech's new application for design, checking (rating) and plate and frame heat exchangers, or similar brazed or welded plate exchangers. |
2006.5 |
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A single solution for the design, checking (rating) and performance simulation of gasketed plate and frame or brazed plate heat exchangers of the type used for general heating and cooling duties, including vaporisation and condensation. Geometric information on plates can either be input or obtained from a databank supplied with the program. |
2006.5 |
Aspen Tasc+
Tasc+ is a new product developed from combining the best features of HTFS TASC and Aspen Hetran into a single application.
Release 2006.5 includes the following new features and enhancements:
- Advanced calculation method
- Variable baffle pitch
- Exchanger geometry options
- Heat transfer methods
- Process data consistency
- New and revised output
- User interface
- HYSYS simulator option to provide design, rating, and maximum fouling calculations
- HYSYS simulator option to transfer geometry
- Aspen Plus simulator option to transfer Tasc+ calculated UA to Enpoint
- Aspen Plus simulator option to transfer geometry
- Aspen Plus simulator Heatx block option
- Tasc+ Application Now Supports Aspen OSE Workbook
New in Aspen Tasc+ 2006:
- 2-Liquid Phase Properties
- Vapor/Liquid Stream Compositions
- Advanced Simulation / Checking Calculation
- Pressure Drop Calculation Options
- Nozzle Specifications for Design Mode
- Engine Performs Double Precision Calculations
- Setting Plan Improvements
- Tube Layout Improvements
- Improved Output Graphics
- Optimization Logic Improved
- Effective X-Flow Fraction
- Advanced Heat Transfer And Pressure Drop Calculations
- Improved Heat Transfer And Pressure Drop Methods
New capabilities and enhancements in Tasc+ 2004.2:
- Research validated heat-transfer and pressure drop methods from TASC.
- Checking and Simulation calculations from TASC.
- Mechanical design, materials calculations, cost estimation from Hetran.
- Improved overall workflow of the program.
- Units of measure controls allows unit sets to selected for all input/output items at any point during use of the program. Field specific units can also be selected for any input or output item. Users can customize an entire set of Units to their needs.
- Navigator window allows users to navigate through all input and output. It identifies where input data is required before running the application.
- UI consistency checking identifies what is required or optional input and requests only data that is pertinent to the selected application types and calculation modes.
- Default values are dynamically selected based on other inputs and shown in red to distinguish them from user specified values.
- Recap of design cases stores all final designs evaluated during the program session and allows the user to compare designs side by side. Any design can be recalled and reviewed in more detail.
- Hetran legacy input files (BJT) can be used by opening the file and then using the “Run>>Transfer” facility to transfer the input data to the Tasc+ program.
- TASC input files (TAI) can be opened directly by the Tasc+ program.
- Cost estimation logic from the Hetran has been utilized to provide more detailed cost estimation.
- New mechanical design calculation provide better estimates of vessel thicknesses, tubesheet thicknesses, nozzle dimensions, and flange thicknesses.
- The Setting Plan drawing and tube sheet layout drawing have been improved to be more robust. The drawing can be zoomed in/out and resized. A variety of different views can be displayed and printed. The drawing views can be saved to dxf , svg, and bmp file formats or copied to clipboard.
- Improved tube layout design and user interaction capabilities. After the program has selected a tube layout, the user can interact with the layout by adding, removing, or moving tubes, tube lines, sealing strips, etc..
- Interface to MS Excel, MS Word, or VB applications through Active X controls in the UI allow the user to access all input and output variables and control the programs execution from any of these 3rd party applications.
- New Design Logic:
- Generates a best Design, and a set of alternative designs meeting Design criteria.
- Generates a set of “near miss” design which just miss meeting Design criteria.
- Performs full Checking calculation on each potential Design.
- Can specify maximum/minimum values for all key Design parameters.
- Optimisation Path displays all generated Designs, and lets any Design be selected to display all relevant results, or to use in further calculations.
- New calculation mode for Maximum Fouling for a specified duty.
- Updated Physical Properties Package, with more robust handling of redundant or limited properties data. Allows access to Comthermo, Aspen Properties, and B-JAC properties databanks.
- TEMA vibration calculations included, as well as HTFS vibration methods.
- Updated Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop package.
- Added explicit allowance for thickness of fouling layers.
- Extended range of (optional) inputs relating to exchanger mechanical design.
- Linkable to software from Koch Heat Transfer (previously Brown FinTube) for twisted tube calculations.
- Interfaces to Aspen Plus and HYSYS process simulators.
- Two way data transfer facility between Tasc+ and Aspen Teams.
Aspen TASC
Aspen TASC 2006
New in this version:
- Updated Physical Properties Package
- Improved heat transfer and pressure drop methods
Aspen TASC 2004 does not contain any major new features, but there are a number of minor improvements and corrections.
It also contains the latest versions of ComThermo and the HTFS Physical Properties package.
TASC 5.10 was a full release containing many new features and bug fixes. New features included:
- Improved messaging for design uncertainties
- Improved methods for post-dry heat transfer
- Boiling curve input
- Tube Bundle layout as a full input option
- Improved vibration calculations
- Improved specification for geometry detail for example impingement protect options
- Updated physical properties package (v5.10)
Enhanced Windows GUI features include:
- Active Input checking
- Display of default values
- Resizable forms
- Improved graphics
- Run status and error trace windows
- Tube Layout diagram is editable from Bundle layout input form
- New Data Browser with navigation tree
- Updated COMThermo package
- New Report Generator for output of results
TASC Interfaces
- New link to AspenPlus to run TASC 5.10
- Updated TASC-HYSYS link
TASC 5.01 was a Service Release containing a number of Corrections and Revisions including:
- Revised full TASC-HYSYS link
- Vibration Output Summary now shows all warnings
- Revised Output for Thermosyphon Stability
- Correction to end-zone length calculations in G, H, I, and J-shells
- Correction to calculations for F, G and H -shells with in-line pass partition lanes
- More robust convergence of Thermosyphon and K-shell Calculations
- Updated Physical Property Package
The main new features in TASC 5.00 included:
- Generalised Simulation, to evaluate either inlet or outlet or flowrate for each stream
- Thermo Properties Package with over 1000 substances
- New security system
- Reflux condensers
- Generalised enhanced surfaces, tubeside or shellside
- Rigorous shellside geometry
- Interactive Tube Layout diagram
- Improved condensate cooling methods
- Improved critical heat flux methods
- Automatic nozzle design if not specified
- 'Exchanger Geometry Only' calculation mode
- Closer integration with TASC Mechanical
TASC 4.11 corrected problems reported via the HTFS Alerts service.
The main new features in TASC 4.10 included:
Upgraded Kettle Reboiler calculations
U-bend heat transfer
Condensation using the Colburn-Hougen Method
Sealing Strips used by default in Design
Improved Windows GUI
Improved Help facilities
Option to allow for subcooled boiling
Redesigned lineprinter output
Improved error and warning messages
Improved heat transfer and pressure drop methods
Changes to properties calculation methods
The previous versions TASC 4.10 and TASC 4.11 can be used in conjunction with the mechanical design program, MECHX 1.10.
The main new features in TASC 4.00 included:
New style Windows GUI
Additional Windows Output
More comprehensive Help facilities
Thermosyphon calculations
Extended database of exchanger metal properties
Improved vibration checking and output
Option for calculation of gravitational pressure changes
Option to allow for subcooled boiling
Option to specify stream specific enthalpies, instead of temperatures / qualities, to define stream inlet and outlet conditions.
Option to define the orientation of shellside and tubeside nozzles around the shell
Improved heat transfer and pressure drop methods
Changes to properties calculation methods
Aspen Teams
New in Aspen Teams 2006.5:
- Enhancements to Aspen Teams/ASME 2006.5
- Simply support tube sheet design
- Bellows expansion joints
- Mandatory full radiography
- Thick-walled expansion joints
- Flange Rigidity
- 2007 ASME materials
- Additional enhancements
- Aspen Teams/AD
- Added the calculation of the tube sheet flanged extension thickness per DIN 2505
- Improved the calculation of tube sheets with flange moments
- Improved the calculation of embedded diameter ‘d2’ for evaluation of untubed areas in tube sheet design
- Improved the calculation of the tube unsupported length for no-tubes-inwindow baffle designs
- Improved the calculation of tube stresses when thermal loads are present
- Improvements to Aspen Teams/EN
- Improvements to the material default files
New in Aspen Teams 2006:
- Complete exchangers of all types, fixed and floating tubesheets as well as U-tube tubesheets, can now be designed using EN 13445 code
- ASME 2006 Addenda Implemented
- Expanded UHX Tubesheet Output
- Improved Design For Flanges with Inner/Outer Rings
- New Algorithms For Designing Optional Type Flanges
- Now designs every flange according to the mandatory rigidity calculations
- The tube stresses at the interior of the bundle are now calculated
- Tubesheet Thickness Check per Asme Uw 13.2
- Allows for conical geometries with apex angles greater than 30°
- Obtain results for external nozzle loads when the geometry falls outside of the published graphs.
- Select ANSI or NBCC for the calculation of wind and seismic loads
- Select continuous ring supports for vertical units
- Calculate the force required to remove the bundle
New capabilities and enhancements in Teams 2004.2:
Updated Teams/ASME per ASME Addenda dated July 1, 2005. Major highlights include:
- Updated the ASME material database to comply with the 2005 materials per ASME Section II, Part D.
- Incorporated miscellaneous changes per part UHX, Rules for Shell-and- Tube Heat Exchangers.
- Added new definition of minimum specified thickness according to mandatory appendix 1.
- Applied mandatory flange rigidity rules per appendix 2. These rules were non-mandatory in Prior ASME code publications.
- Added new recommended minimum gasket contact widths for sheet and composite gaskets per appendix 2.
- Incorporated several changes to mandatory appendix 26, Pressure Vessel and Heat Exchanger Expansion Joints.
- Two setting plans are now available, per Tasc+ or per Teams (default Teams).
- The Setting Plan drawing and tube sheet layout drawing have been improved to be more robust. The drawing can be zoomed in/out and resized. A variety of different views can be displayed and printed. The drawing views can be saved dxf , svg, and bmp file formats or copied to clipboard.
- Two tube layout is now available, per Tasc+ or per Teams (default Teams).
- Improved Tasc+ tube layout design and user interaction capabilities. After the program has selected a tube layout, the user can interact with the layout by adding, removing, or moving tubes, tube lines, sealing strips, etc.
- Added additional input items for components material allowable stress to facilitate hydraulic test case designs.
- Automated the hydraulic test case design by providing allowable stress values at 90% of the yield stress as applicable.
- Improved the detail output for nozzle cylinder thickness per UG-45.
- Added new design method for vertical supports as continuous rings.
- Added additional generic material designators in the default materials database.
- Miscellaneous improvements to Teams/AD and Teams/CODAP.
- Prepared Teams/EN (construction and design code per European standard En 13445) for a beta version release.
TASC Mechanical (formerly MECHX)
TASC Mechanical 5.10 includes:
- PD5500:2003 Design code option
- ASME Materials Database based on the 2002 Addenda
- BS Materials Database
- Introduction of a User Materials Database
TASC Mechanical 5.01 included:
- ASME VIII Div 1. (July 2001 Edition)
- ASME II Part D. (July 2001 Edition)
TASC Mechanical 5.00 included:
- ASME VIII Div 1. (updates July 2000)
- ASME II Part D. (updates July 2000)
- External pressure as per ASME VIII Div 1. UG-28
- Cone Reinforcement as per ASME VIII Div 1. Appendix 1-5
MECHX 1.10 included the following:
- ASME VIII Div 1. (updates July 1999)
- ASME II Part D. (updates July 1999)
- TEMA (8th Edition)
- Revisions for tubesheet edge thickness in RCB-7.1341
The main features in this and earlier versions of TASC Mechanical (previously MECHX):
- Easy to use Windows GUI.
- New exchanger design (girth flanges, tubesheets, bolted covers, floating head assemblies etc)
- Checking code conformity of existing designs.
- Facility to achieve consistency between mechanical and thermal designs.
- Results presented in a format suitable for checking by hand against the designated code.
- Comprehensive Help facilities
Aspen Acol+
Acol+ is a new product developed from combining the best features of HTFS ACOL and Aspen Aerotran into a single application.
Release 2006.5 includes the following new features and enhancements:
- Design and rating calculations utility for Acol+ model
- New Transfer UA to End Point button
- Option for use of Moore Fans
- Data Transfer capability from Acol+ to Plate+ and Tasc+
- Design constraint in Acol+ design mode
- Output in detailed interval analysis
- Input for explicit setting plan dimension
- User-specified recap profiles
- Pre-defined slots and user-saved plots
- File conversion utility
- Process-side heat transfer enhancements
- Interface option for HYSYS process simulator
- Interface option for Aspen Plus process simulator
- Support for Aspen OSE Workbook
New in Aspen Acol+ 2006:
- Run-Time Integration with HYSYS
- 2-Liquid Phase Properties
- Vapor/Liquid Stream Compositions
- Geometry and X-side Flow Optimization
- Performance Data Specification Can Be Isolated To Specific Passes
- Engine Performs Double Precision Calculations
- Nozzle Size Selection Based On Maximum % Pressure Drop
New capabilities and enhancements in Acol+ 2004.2:
- Research validated heat-transfer and pressure drop methods from ACOL
- Checking and Simulation calculations from ACOL
- Mechanical design, materials calculations, cost estimation, design optimization from Aerotran
- Improved overall workflow of the program.
- Units of measure controls allows unit sets to selected for all input/output items at any point during use of the program. Field specific units can also be selected for any input or output item. Users can customize an entire set of Units to their needs.
- Navigator window allows users to navigate through all input and output. It identifies where input data is required before running the application.
- UI consistency checking identifies what is required or optional input and requests only data that is pertinent to the selected application types and calculation modes.
- Default values are dynamically selected based on other inputs and shown in red to distinguish them from user specified values.
- New design optimization logic will evaluate various exchanger geometries to determine an optimum design that will meet process requirements and physical geometry limits.
- Recap of design cases stores all final designs evaluated during the program session and allows the user to compare designs side by side. Any design can be recalled and reviewed in more detail.
- Optimization path shows the geometries and pertinent process conditions for all the exchangers evaluated. The last design is typically the optimum exchanger for the application. The user can select any of the intermediate designs to review their details.
- Aerotran legacy input files (BJT) can be used by opening the file and then using the “Run>>Transfer” facility to transfer the input data to the Acol+ program.
- ACOL input files (ACI) can be opened directly by the Acol+ program.
- Cost estimation logic from the Aerotran and ACOL programs has been merged to provide more detailed cost estimation. This cost estimation should only be used for relative comparison of units.
- The Setting Plan drawing has been improved to be more robust. The drawing can be zoomed in/out and resized. The drawing can be saved to dxf , svg, and bmp file formats or copied to clipboard.
- The tube layout drawing depicts the tube and fin dimensions to scale. The drawing can be zoomed in/out and resized. The tube passes are identified and color coded.
- Improved tube layout design and optimization capabilities. Symmetrical and non-symmetrical layouts can be selected by the program and evaluated during the design mode.
- New tubesheet thickness and header calculation methods have been incorporated to provide better estimates of effective tube lengths, more accurate weights, and improved cost estimation.
- Interface to MS Excel, MS Word, or VB applications through Active X controls in the UI allow the user to access all input and output variables and control the programs execution from any of these 3rd party applications.
- New interfaces from Aspen Plus process simulator to Acol+ allows the rigorous modeling inside Aspen Plus.
- New crossflow pressure drop correlations for gases operating at temperatures below 55 C.
- New plenum pressure drop recovery correlation.
Aspen ACOL
New in Aspen ACOL 2006:
- Method for Plenum Pressure Recovery improved
- Update to HTFS3 method for Finned Tube Bundle Pressure Drop
Aspen ACOL 2004
This version incorporates the patch to version 6.30
New features in ACOL 6.30 included:
- Non-circular Tubes
- Acid Gas Condensation Warnings
- Phase Separation in Headers
- Input of X-side Face Velocity
- Input of X-side Bundle Pressure Drop
- Checking Option
- A-Frame and V-Frame Units
- Input of Performance Data
- Two-phase Flow Maps
- X-side Enhancements
- HTFS3 Method for X-side Heat Transfer & Pressure Drop
General Improvements include:
- Calculation of X-side heat load
- Consistency of X-side inlet temperature
- Handling of air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment
- Improvements to output
- Windows 98 Problem
ACOL
6.20 corrects a number of problems which have been reported
in "HTFS Alerts" for ACOL.
New features in ACOL 6.20 include:
- · Thermo Properties Package
- New security system
- Up to 4 Tube Diameters
- Budget Cost Application
- Improvements to default values
- Handling of X-side temperature down to -200C
- Input filename added to LP and 80-column outputs
- Improved handling of pressure dependance in design mode
- Single row exchangers can now be handled
- Calculation of steam coil pressure drop
- Improved convergence for deep bundles
- Heating of humid air
- Additional Windows Output
- Addition of new Input items
New features in ACOL 6.10 included:
- Additional Windows Output
- Can handle up to 4 Fin Types in a bundle
- Includes X-side radiation heat transfer option
- Improvements to the handling of condensers with long de-superheating zones in Design mode
- Changes to X-side Flow Distribution Option
- Addition of new Input items
- Improved error and warning messages
- ACOL 6.10 corrected a number of problems, which were reported via the HTFS Alert for ACOL 6.00.
The main new features that appeared in ACOL 6.00 included:
- New style Windows GUI
- Additional Windows Output
- More comprehensive Help facilities
- Improvements to Air-cooled Heat Exchanger design calculations
- New Simulation Options: Standard Simulation and Tubeside Fouling Resistance
- Extended database of exchanger metal properties
- Improved heat transfer and pressure drop methods
- Changes to properties calculation methods
- Setting plan for Air-cooled Heat Exchangers
- Weight calculations
- Tubeside enhancement
- X-side surface performance databank
- Improvements to dehumidification calculations
- Additions to detailed tables output
- Additions to general interface file (INTOUT)
- Additions to error and warnings
Aspen FiredHeater
Aspen FiredHeater™ is a new product developed using the calculation engine from the HTFS program FIHR, for furnaces and fired heaters, and the user interface adopted in Aspen Tasc+™, Aspen Acol+™ and other HTFS+ products.
Release 2006.5 includes new and enhanced features in the following areas:
- Heater configuration
- Calculation options
- Firebox geometries
- Convection bank geometries
- Fuels, oxidants and combustion
- Process stream physical properties
- Active input checking
- Import of FIHR cases
- New user interface
- A new set of results tables
Aspen FIHR
Aspen FIHR 2006
New is this version:
- Roof tubes can now be modeled in a cabin firebox with bottom-fired burners and a flat horizontal roof with a single flue-gas off-take gap.
- Fuel and Oxidant Specification With No Firebox
- Warnings At User-Specified Limits
- Flow Stability Warnings
Aspen FIHR 2004
This version incorporates the patch to version 2.10
New features in FIHR 2.10 included:
- Multi-celled fireboxes
- Top and bottom firing
- Shield tube radiation
- Multiple fuel firing
- Multiple oxidants
- Steam injection to process fluid in firebox
- Convection banks with horizontal gas flow, and horizontal or vertical tubes, and standard and non-standard layouts
- Updated physical properties package (v5.10)
- Updated COMThermo package
Enhanced Windows GUI features
- Data browser with navigation tree
- Active input checking
- Defaults displayed in input
- Run status and error trace windows
- Report Generator for outputs
New features in FIHR 2.00 included:
- Thermo Properties Package
- New security system
- Variable tube diameters and tube to tube separations
- Pressure drop in sections of tube outside the heat transfer section of the firebox
- Optional allowance for firebox tube U-bend areas
- The firebox tubes in a separated or interspersed layout
- Automatic zoning option
- Output of circumferential heat flux and peak temperature profile for firebox tubes
- Up to 10 identical paths for horizontal tubes in cabin fireboxes
- Shield bank radiation
- Tube materials database
FIHR 1.50 contained a number of new features including:
- Heat release pattern calculation methods incorporated.
- A cabin firebox with two rows of horizontal central tubes can now be modelled.
- A variable number of tubes/path/zone can be specified for a firebox with horizontal (or helical) tubes.
- Tube banks with rectangular plate fin tubes can be modelled.
- Tube banks with tube rows arranged in parallel flow, rather than series flow, can now be modelled.
- Improved warning and error messages to help data input.
- Updated Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Package.
- Updated Physical Properties Package.
- Enhancements and corrections from user feedback.
Aspen MUSE
Aspen MUSE 2006
New is this version:
- Capability to Handle More Complex Plate-Fin Exchangers and more detailed modelling
- New Fin Performance calculations
- Entrainment in Plate-Fin Kettles
- Output of Metal Temperatures
The calculation engines featured in MUSE 3.30 are:
MUSE
- for stream by stream simulation and thermosyphons
PFIN - first shot design of a plate-fin exchanger
MULE - detailed layer by layer simulation
MUSC - for crossflow exchangers (single or multi-pass)
New features in MUSE 3.30 include:
- Resizeable Input Forms
Within the limits imposed by your screen size, you will be able to see the whole of tables of Input Data, without needing to scroll through the table
- Improved Checking
- Data range checking limits updated
- Checking can be switched off for Fin Databanks
- Check fin height consistency within layers. Warnings are produced if all fins for all streams in any layer do not have the same fin height.
- The heat transfer correction methods, allowing for multicomponent boiling and condensing, have been made less conservative.
- Multiple Exchangers welded into Units.
- New Input:
- Number of exchangers per unit
- Numbers of nozzles per unit
- Additional Output
- Nozzle velocity and velocity heads (MUSE, MULE, PFIN)
- Pressure changes a fraction of both actual and required pressure drop (PFIN)
- Both absolute and fractional component pressures changes (MUSE.MULE)
- Reynolds, Prandtl No at inlet and outlet (PFIN)
- Print facilities on a number of outputs have been updated.
- Updated Physical Properties Package
New features included in MUSE 3.20
- Layer Type Definitions
- End-zone crossflow
- Checking by repeated simulation
- Double-banking options in Design
- Link with HYSYS
- Thermo Properties Package
- New security system
MUSE 3.10 included the MUSC calculation engine, for crossflow exchanges. This includes methods for using plate fin exchangers in crossflow inside kettle reboilers.
New features in MUSE 3.10 include:
- MUSC Option Included
- Enhanced Properties Output
New features included in MUSE 3.00:
- MULE and PFIN Options
- More Streams, More Fins, More data
- Effective Length Definition.
- Zig Zag Layer Pattern Assessment
- Updated Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Methods
- Improved Design Basis
- Enhanced Properties Output
- Amended Defaults
- PSF interface.
- Automatic Warnings Display
- Spreadsheet Input
- Stream Compositions Sum
Aspen PIPE
With the program you are able to simply and quickly create a model of your pipeline, perform relevant calculations and then generate results in both graphical and tabular form.
There are no significant new features in PIPE 5.20. Calculated results will in most cases differ very little from those from PIPE 5.10.
PIPE 5.20 incorporates
- Thermo Properties Package
- New security system
New features in PIPE 5.10 included:
- New style Windows GUI capable of handling long filenames.
- 3D pipeline drawing with zoom and edit facilities accessed from ResultsSummary in Output menu.
- Improved warning and error messages to help data input.
- Minor enhancements and corrections from user feedback.
PIPE 5.01 contained minor corrections from user feedback and an improved installation procedure.
PIPE 5.0 was the first implementation of the program with a Windows User Interface.
Aspen FRAN
FRAN 2.01 contains a new security system.
FRAN 2.00 is a completely new implementation of the program, with an easy to use User Interface which allows data to be entered, simulation of exchangers to be carried out and the results reviewed.
Aspen Plate+
Aspen Plate+™ is concerned with the thermal design of Plate Heat Exchangers. The program checks whether a heat exchanger of specified geometry achieves a specified duty, or specified stream outlet conditions. The result of this calculation is the ratio of the actual to the required surface area. The program provides one or more designs, based on a notional set of plates held within the program (Design), or on one specified plate (Design (given plate)), and one or more designs, based on a notional set of plates held within the program. Aspen Plate+ is completely integrated with the Aspen Plus process simulation software.
Release 2006.5 includes the following new features and enhancements:
- Second compressed plate pitch.
- Input f & Cj factors for each stream.
- User-specified recap profiles.
- Pre-defined plots and user-saved plots.
- New Aspen Plus simulator option.
- Data Transfer Capabilities from Plate+.
New in 2006
- New User Interface
Aspen Plate+ is a new product developed using a new user interface, based on the concepts used for the Tasc+ and Acol+ products and linking it to the proven HTFS APLE calculation engine. The new user interface operation is identical to the Tasc+ and Acol+ interfaces so users with experience in either of these programs should be able to use this program with little or no training. Some of the major features incorporated into the user interface are:
- Access to plate databases containing multiple vendor plate dimensions and characteristics.
- Units of measure controls allows unit sets to selected for all input/output items at any point during use of the program. Field specific units can also be selected for any input or output item. Users can customize an entire set of Units to their needs.
- Navigator window allows users to navigate through all input and output. It identifies where input data is required before running the application.
- UI consistency checking identifies what is required or optional input and requests only data that is pertinent to the selected application types and calculation modes.
- Default values are dynamically selected based on other inputs and shown in red to distinguish them from user specified values.
- Recap of design cases stores all final designs evaluated during the program session and allows the user to compare designs side by side. Any design can be recalled and reviewed in more detail.
- APLE input files (API) can be opened directly by the Plate+ program.
- Interface to MS Excel, MS Word, or VB applications through Active X controls in the UI allow the user to access all input and output variables and control the programs execution from any of these 3rd party applications.
- Updated Physical Properties Package, with more robust handling of redundant or limited properties data. Allows access to Comthermo, Aspen Properties, and B-JAC properties databanks.
- Interfaces to Aspen Plus process simulator. Native Aspen Plate+ UI can be launched inside Aspen Plus to display input and results.
- 2-liquid phase properties
- Vapor/Liquid stream compositions
- Aspen Plus Interface
- Multiple Exchanger Design Mode
Aspen APLE
New features in Aspen APLE 2004
- Updated user interface, with data browser and resizable input forms
- Active input checking, with display of defaults
- Enhanced plate data bank, with plate geometry information from three leading manufacturers
- New Output Graphs, showing the variation along the plate length of pressure, vapour fraction, heat load or heat transfer coefficient, in addition to temperature
- Corrections to methods for non-Newtonian fluids
- Option, under preferences, automatically to display either Full Results or the Results Summary, or the plate diagram, after a run
The main new features that appeared in APLE 2.10 included:
- Thermo Properties Package
- New security system
- Correction of problems reported in HTFS Alerts
The main new features that appeared in APLE 2.00 included:
- New style Windows GUI
- Additional Windows Output
- More comprehensive Help facilities