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The new release features a number of exciting innovations designed to optimize your business: new simulation products, technical advancements, enhanced workflow integration, expanded property database, costing and pricing updates, upgrades to equipment modeling capabilities, and enhancements to simplify the deployment of our solutions. In this issue read about the new Aspen Zyqad™ P&IDs and integration between Aspen HYSYS Dynamics™ and Aspen Simulation Workbook™. To ensure greater flexibility and ease of use, V2006.5 is also fully Microsoft® Vista compliant, and has been rigorously tested against an extensive library of over 15,000 test cases. These achievements are the result of AspenTech’s investment in the Process Modeling Center of Excellence, based in Burlington,MA, and the Shanghai R&D Center, dedicated to the deployment of high-quality solutions for our customers. Read on to learn about the 2008 User Group Meetings, unique coal gasification applications, specialized solutions for the Exploration and Production sector, and an innovative software deployment service from BASF. As always, we invite you to share your stories and insights with the AspenTech process engineering community. Send your feedback to Engineering.Insights@aspentech.com. Enjoy this edition of Aspen Engineering Insights. Sincerely,
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by David Tremblay, Fred Tonnaire, and Steve Lorenz, AspenTech Are you realizing the full potential of today’s modeling technology? AspenTech has recently introduced two products that allow companies to apply simulation models with actual operating data for insights into process improvement opportunities. Each tool has a unique fit in optimizing today’s processes:
Aspen Simulation Workbook V2006.5 supports steady-state and dynamic Aspen HYSYS® and Aspen RefSYS™ models, as well as all run modes for Aspen Plus®, Aspen Dynamics®, Aspen Custom Modeler®, and a number of related simulation tools. This makes Aspen Simulation Workbook an ideal tool for developing simple Excel interfaces to simulation models, without any programming, and offering these models to casual users in the plant. Aspen Simulation Workbook also allows you to link plant data tags to model variables, making it easy to populate process simulation models with actual plant data. Model results can be sent back to the historian through additional tags. Using these features of Aspen Simulation Workbook makes it easy to build "on-demand" online applications for "what-if" analysis, "look-ahead" simulations, and operator decision support tools. Aspen Online Deployment takes this one step further, enabling you to apply process simulation models to continuous, real-time online applications with any of the major process historians. It includes a wealth of data conditioning tools such as steady-state detection, moving average filtering, gain/offset adjustment, and clamping, all of which can be applied in numerous ways across all industries. For example, in the Exploration & Production sector, Aspen Online Deployment can be used to monitor rotating machinery performance, VOC estimations in real-time, optimal flow of inhibitors, water dew point, and Criconden point. For more information about Aspen Simulation Workbook and Aspen Online Deployment, send an email to Engineering.Insights@aspentech.com.
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by Mike Strathman, Product Marketing, AspenTech The Exploration & Production market is a primary focus area for AspenTech in 2007 and beyond. The impact of today’s market conditions highlights how important it is for E&P companies to take advantage of the efficiencies and cost savings that aspenONE solutions provide. One of the main objectives for E&P companies continues to be adding oil and gas reserves. Historically, this goal was accomplished by exploring for, finding, proving, and then booking new reserves. With more costly technology, environmental challenges, and limited access to prospective acreage by National Oil Companies, E&P companies are looking to better manage the reserves they already have. Maximizing recovery of existing reserves includes optimizing the surface facilities required to process and transport the oil and gas produced. This is AspenTech‘s core strength and where we deliver tremendous value to E&P customers. The Industry Standard for Process Simulation Aspen HYSYS® is the leading process simulator in E&P today. AspenTech continues to drive maximum value to our E&P customers by leveraging the core strengths of Aspen HYSYS and our process engineering tools to improve the design and operation of E&P process facilities, including offshore platforms, onshore production facilities, gas plants, and LNG/heavy oil facilities. Integrated Process Engineering aspenONE™ Process Engineering extends our presence in E&P design with such tools as Aspen HYSYS Upstream™, Aspen Icarus Process Evaluator®, and Aspen Simulation Workbook™. These tools improve engineering efficiency by enabling multiple disciplines— whether operating companies or E&Cs—to work concurrently and execute projects globally on a 24/7 basis. E&P Operations Support with Engineering Models Customers using Aspen HYSYS simulation models with real-time data have achieved significant operational benefits: increased throughput, safer operations, and reduced operating costs. Aspen Online Deployment and Aspen Simulation Workbook bring the power of Aspen HYSYS models to operators in production facilities, increasing plant reliability and agility in plant decision making. Real-time data is an essential part of using engineering models to support operating decisions. Aspen InfoPlus.21® is a proven data historian, performance management, and trending solution, providing critical real-time information to operators. aspenONE Advanced Process Control further extends value by enabling E&P operators to control complex facilities and equipment, thereby improving operational efficiency. Strategic Partners AspenTech partners with leading companies to offer extended solutions in E&P.We work closely with Schlumberger, Petroleum Experts, Accenture, and others to improve the success of our solutions in this market.We also leverage system integrators for IT and specialized data-intensive solutions to support our clients and our engineering solutions. For more information, send an email to Engineering.Insights@aspentech.com.
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by Dan McCarthy and Sanjeev Mullick, Product Marketing, AspenTech Make plans now to attend the 2008 Aspen Engineering Suite (AES) User Conference. Join us for two days of discussions on product updates, priorities, and development plans, as well as demonstrations on new product capabilities and updates to existing products. You'll gain valuable knowledge from your industry peers about best practices, techniques, and creative approaches, and have an opportunity to meet and interact with AspenTech product experts. Call for Papers We invite you to share best practices among your peers by presenting a relevant paper of your choice at the event. If you are interested, please send an email to UGM2008@aspentech.com. Indicate the meeting (listed below) that you will attend and a proposed topic of interest. 2008 Aspen Engineering Suite (AES) Americas AES User Conference April 8-9, 2008 2008 Aspen Engineering Suite (AES) European AES User Conference April 22-23, 2008 The event will showcase the enhanced workflow integration using all of AspenTech’s engineering products. In addition, we will also conduct separate meetings of the:
Online registration will be available soon. In the meantime, send questions to UGM2008@aspentech.com.
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We invite you to submit your success stories, case studies, and user perspectives for future issues of Aspen Engineering Insights. Once published, we will send you a complimentary AspenTech polo shirt to show our appreciation. Please send your emails to sanjeev.mullick@aspentech.com.
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by Mr. Rudolf Assmann, BASF IT Services, and Dr. Axel Polt, BASF AG Large organizations face significant challenges when it comes to the deployment or update of engineering software:
These challenges result in lengthy delays before the software is available for use within the organization, affecting the ability for users to take immediate advantage of IT investments. The organization, in turn, loses its edge over the competition. BASF IT Services recently implemented a new approach to software deployment (VizCAE™, VizCAPE™) using Microsoft® SoftGrid virtualization capabilities (part of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization suite). Using VizCAE and VizCAPE, BASF has dramatically reduced IT deployment time of aspenONE Process Engineering from 8 weeks to 1 week. The benefits of this innovative approach are:
This success was recently presented at the April 2007 AES User Group Meeting in Frankfurt (view the complete presentation). BASF IT Services will be pleased to help other companies in the deployment of aspenONE Process Engineering. For further information, please send an email to Engineering.Insights@aspentech.com.
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by Andrew McBrien, Product Management, AspenTech With the shortage of engineers today, companies require better and faster process engineering decision-making, and less rework. As a result, it is more critical then ever before to enable global collaboration, share accurate and consistent data, automate low value-add tasks, and intelligently integrate the engineer’s skill and judgment. Consistent with our goal to provide you with better solutions for integration and engineering efficiency, Aspen Zyqad™ now offers out-of-the-box capability to support P&IDs during Basic Engineering. This new functionality allows users to do the following:
Benefits to companies implementing this new functionality include:
This new capability is a must for engineers and engineering managers responsible for delivering Basic Engineering or FEED packages and Bid Packages. To learn more, please contact your nearest AspenTech office or email Engineering.Insights@aspentech.com.
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by David Tremblay, Product Manager, AspenTech Presented at the 32nd International Technical Conference on Coal Utilization & Fuel Systems High energy prices, the desire for greater energy independence, and environmental concerns are all creating the “perfect storm” for next-generation gasification technologies. Hundreds of companies and government organizations around the world are investing development dollars in an attempt to capture part of this critical market. However, given the technical challenges, fluctuating economic cycles, and strong competition, it is likely that only a handful of these processes will prove viable. Since gasification plants represent investments of hundreds of millions of dollars, it is essential to fully leverage advanced technology to identify optimal process configurations, design equipment that will run reliably and safely, and develop highly accurate cost estimates to ensure that the right decisions are made early in the design lifecycle. We’re pleased to present a new abstract that gives an overview of the different gasification technologies available today, and discusses the application of various AspenTech tools to assist users in process and feedstock selection, process configuration, and detailed equipment design. Successful implementation of these tools will enable companies to develop the most economical and reliable Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) plants and to emerge as leaders in the growing gasification industry. Tools such as Aspen Plus, Aspen CustomModeler, Aspen RateSep, and Aspen Icarus Process Evaluator can help IGCC plant engineers to model the entire IGCC process in one integrated environment, optimize equipment designs, test control schemes, simulate CO2 scrubbing, perform detailed economic evaluations, and more. Benefits achieved using these tools include improved yields, increased plant efficiency and quality, and reduction in capital and operating costs. To read the complete abstract, click here.
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Over the years, several useful books on process simulation have been written by industry practitioners and AspenTech University Program professors. These books highlight the use of AspenTech simulators for solving industry problems and for engineering education through modeling. Here is a list of useful references; click on the links for more information.
Feel free to contribute and email your favorite book or website addressing the use of AspenTech’s engineering products to Engineering.Insights@aspentech.com.
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Your problem will be assigned an incident number. Please reference this number on all future communications regarding this particular problem. You can also view status updates via our Support website (click Track Incidents from the Support home page). The target response and resolution time depends on the urgency or criticality of an issue and the level of SMS Services your company has purchased. For more information, refer to the Customer Services Guide located on the Support website under Support Offerings. If you have any concerns about how your request is being handled, you may escalate your issue to the Management team. For a list of local managers, click the Support Managers link from either the Feedback or the Contact Us links on the Support home page. We encourage all users to register for access to our award-winning support website at http://support.aspentech.com. You will have access to a wealth of support services, including an extensive online knowledge base, product updates, discussion forums, and more. Future issues of Aspen Engineering Insights will highlight additional services and best practices.
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Aspen HYSYS Dynamics
Aspen HYSYS Dynamics may be used to simulate a vent line attached to a depressuring system. This Knowledge Base example uses a detailed heat loss model to determine the vent line wall temperature profile. |
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Aspen Plus
Yes. The simulation illustrated in this Knowledge Base solution takes advantage of Aspen Plus' capabilities for modeling solid components. This includes tracking component attributes and particle size distribution, and estimating properties for coal. The model may be used as a guide for understanding the process and the economics, and also as a starting point for more sophisticated models for plant design and process equipment specification. |
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In early December, AspenTech will host a series of seminars focusing on "Collaborative Engineering—Essential Concepts and Applications" in Paris, Frankfurt, and Madrid. For more information, please contact Monsi Hortas at monsi.hortas@aspentech.com. On-Demand Webinars Click here to view our most recent on-demand webinars.
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Welcome to the latest issue of Aspen Engineering Insights. This edition features proven techniques for lowering costs, increasing productivity, and adding more value to your business. As always, you’ll find articles, success stories, tips & tricks, and more that highlight the real-world benefits of deploying AspenTech solutions. And I am very pleased to provide you with details on the upcoming release of aspenONE™ Process Engineering V2006.5⎯slated for January 2008⎯ which will deliver even greater value. 