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 HX-Net⎯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 HX-Net 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 HX-Net 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.

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