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Dow
Applying Solids Modeling in Aspen Plus
Dow significantly improved their understanding a process where a key reactant was a solid, particularly particle
growth mechanisms and how particle size affected batch size downstream.

Liquid Light
Commercialization of Green Chemical & Fuel Technologies
Liquid Light used Aspen Plus and Aspen Properties to design and scale up a new process for the conversion of
CO2 into chemicals and fuel.

CTBE
Virtual Sugarcane Biorefinery
CTBE used Aspen Plus to investigate 1st and 2nd generation sugarcane ethanol plants with and without sorghum
and butanol production while also assessing economic, social, and environmental factors.

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Cansolv
Model Development for CO2 Capture using Aspen Plus
Cansolv developed scaled up commercial designs of CO2 capture plants based on Aspen properties and
validated with pilot data.

Pan Pacific Technologies

Algal Bioprocess Modeling
Pan Pacific Technologies gained important process constraint, scale-up and lifecycle cost insights through
using Aspen Plus to model a difficult bioprocesses.

Arithmetek
aspenONE for a Flexible Business Model
Arithmetek used aspenONE engineering desktop to maintain flexibility in the cyclically behaiving metals
and mining industry.

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Repsol and Inprocess
Validating Dynamic Models to Reproduce Plant Dynamics
Inundated condensers thought to be functional were discovered and repaired improving
plant controllability.

Petrofac
Rigorous modeling for gas plant debottlenecking
The capacity of a gas plant was increased 20% with equipment modification and
replacement. Petrofac avoided overdesign, thus saving capital costs and producing a solution
that saw a return in less than a month.

Sipchem
Modeling Methanol Plant for Revamp Pre-Feasibility Study
Improvements in the efficiency of a methanol plant were investigated in-house rather than
outsourced, saving $300-400K and 4-6 weeks of time.

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Dow
Complex Flow Overpressure Analysis
Using HYSYS Dynamics, Dow was able to better understand the system surrounding a
failed drying tower and how the incident occurred, allowing them to investigate and
prevent further emergency scenarios.

Petrofac
Steam System Modeling with Aspen HYSYS
Petrofac found that even with a SRU train trip, the Acid Gas Removal Unit of their stream
system could remain online, preventing Petrofac from overdesigning the system and thus
saving capital costs.

Canmet Energy
Process Model Development and Simulation of an Integrated Oxy-fuel Power
Generation System with CO2 Capture
Using Aspen HYSYS, Canmet developed a robust integrated process model to find sources of
exergy destruction and improve efficiencies for a oxy-fuel power generation system.

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Exchanger Design & Rating

Kuwait National Petroleum Company: KNPC Shuaiba
Refinery Energy Management Study
KNPC used Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining, Aspen EDR, and Aspen Utilities Planner to reduce energy use and save a
projected $15MM/year.

TUV NEL
Impact of R&D on the Accuracy of Exchanger Design
By exploring the newest versions of EDR (V7.3 and V8), NEL discovered four improvements
that reinforce their confidence in the software.

Petrofac
Rigorous modeling for gas plant debottlenecking
The capacity of a gas plant was increased 20% with equipment modification and
replacement. Petrofac avoided overdesign, thus saving capital costs and producing a solution
that saw a return in less than a month.

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Exchanger Design & Rating (continued)

Fives Cryogenie
Why Integrate Plate Fin Exchangers into Aspen HYSYS
Simulations
Fives Cryogenie holistically optimized the cold section of the ethylene plant and reduced the amount of time required
to finalize the Plate Fin HX design by using HYSYS and EDR.

Perstorp
Finding Appropriate Design Margins for Heat Exchangers
Perstop utilized Aspen EDRs unique design optimization algorithm to reduce over design while minimizing cost or area
of the exchanger rather than just minimizing the heat transfer area.

Saudi Aramco & Inprocess

Monitoring and Cleaning Sequence Scheduling Tool for a
Refinery Pre-heat Train
Saudi Aramco and Inprocess developed a schedule for cleaning the fouling in heat exchangers to enhance process
performance while the avoiding costs associated with over cleaning.

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Aspen Economic Evaluation Suite

PEMEX
New Refinery Cost Estimation
PEMEX estimated the cost of a new refinery by using Aspen HYSYS & Aspen Economic
Evaluation Suite to conduct feasibility studies, size equipment, and evaluate project scope.

Linde
Relocation of a 200MMSCFD Facility
An estimating team used Aspen Capital Cost Estimator to relocate a proposed 200MMSCFD gas
processing plant, which involved changes in plot, geography, labor indexes, climate, and power and
control distribution.

SABIC
Chemicals to Hydrocarbons- A Conceptual Approach with Aspen
Engineering Suite
SABIC developed a model covering a range of process conditions and optimized the process for waste
and material consumption minimization as well as economic benefit.
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