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A Brief Tutorial (and supplement to training and online documentation)
By Dan McCarthy, Product Manager; Ron Beck, Marketing Manager;
and Glenn Dissinger, Product Director, Aspen Technology, Inc
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products from a chemical process. With integrated aspenONE® solutions, process manufacturers can
implement best practices for optimizing their engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain operations.
As a result, AspenTech customers are better able to increase capacity, improve margins, reduce costs,
and become more energy efficient. To see how the world’s leading process manufacturers rely on
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Getting Started with Relative Economics in Aspen HYSYS
1. Introduction
The new integrated economics workflow provided by AspenTech enables process modelers to incorporate rigorous
relative costs in their process modeling studies. This provides the business benefit of better process designs that take into
account capital and operating costs together with technical and process parameters.
Integrated economics brings the power of AspenTech’s rigorous economic modeling products (the ICARUS family) to the
process model (Aspen HYSYS or Aspen Plus). This enables the process designer to rapidly assess the relative costs of a
proposed process design, thereby providing the means to screen alternatives based on a balance of technical, safety,
environmental and economic factors.
This document serves as a simple “getting started” guide, taking you through the most common progression of how we
would envision the process designer to use this integrated functionality. This guide is not meant to be used on a stand-
alone basis. We would recommend that a range of other resources be called upon to give the new user a comprehensive
view of how to use this capability. This may include:
• Online documentation – which can be accessed through the Aspen HYSYS and Aspen Process Economic Analyzer
software user screens.
• AspenTech support website (support.aspentech.com), which contains a wide range of knowledge base items, provides
answers to frequently asked questions.
• AspenTech courseware available in in-person and on-line versions, which provide formal training on process modeling
and economic evaluation.
• AspenTech business consultants.
• Pre-recorded tutorials and webinars that provide another view of the information contained in this document (go to
http://www.aspentech.com/solutions/industry_solutions/epc/integrated-economics.aspx for many of these
resources).
This document covers Aspen HYSYS. This guide assumes that the user has Aspen HYSYS V7.3 and Aspen Process
Economic Analyzer® V7.3 installed.
A companion document to this one, providing similar information for users of Aspen Plus, is also available.
(http://www.aspentech.com/uploadedFiles/Forms/Events/NALA/int_econ_tutorial.pdf)
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This entire workflow can be performed from WITHIN the familiar Aspen HYSYS user interface.
Feedstock and product stream pricing parameters are only needed if an ROI for the plant is desired. For estimating and
comparing capital and operating costs, the process stream costs are not required.
Utility cost definition is RECOMMENDED but not a required step. If utility costs are not defined as described below, the
economics ‘engine’ will assign the utilities and associated prices for each energy stream using built-in values, which is not
as accurate as specifying them if known, but is pretty good at the conceptual design level. Each energy stream in the
HYSYS model should be associated with a process utility. The costs of the process utilities should be specified in the
Process Utility Manager or HYSYS Workbook. (see Figure 1 for an example of assigning a utility).
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Now, the workbook can be used to review and enter/edit cost factors quickly for all the feed, product and utility streams.
(see Figure 5).
In most cases, a design case will involve multiple utility sources and multiple unit operations. The workbook (see Figure 5)
is a convenient way to quickly review the streams and utilities selected and to review and modify utility selections and
cost parameters.
Figure 5: Feed and Product Stream Cost Factor Assignment using Workbook View
Important Note: Once you have specified utility selections and costs and feed and product pricing within Aspen
HYSYS, the resulting operating cost information produced by the Aspen HYSYS model run automatically updates the
economics module in the subsequent steps in the integrated workflow.
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Figure 8 enumerates the work flow actions that each Figure 7: Pull-down Economics Sub-menu in Aspen HYSYS
button in the toolbar governs. These will each be
explained during the course of this tutorial.
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Note: The activation enables the other buttons/functions within economics (load simulation data, map, size, evaluate,
equipment summary, deactivate
Templates are useful at an organizational level, a project level, a location level, and a technology level to ensure that best
practices are applied consistently by all process engineers in an organization.
The process of creating templates is beyond the scope of this Getting Started guide. What we do show here is how to
access and use templates in the workflow, assuming that they have been created, for instance, by the estimating group
within your organization.
If your estimating group has established company-specific guidelines or more involved templates, they can make these
available to your group as pull-down options within the integrated economics workflow.
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After activating the costing module, by pushing the cost activation button, a “Costing Options” window will appear (see
Figure 10).
Next, click on the “Browse” button to the right of the templates field, and you will be presented with the available list of
templates. These may be simply the standard basis provided with the system or specific templates provided by your
organization. In the example shown in Figure 10, the available templates are standard, representing the different “out-of-
the-box” geographic cost basis (US Gulf Coast, Europe, Middle East, UK, Japan) and units of measure (metric or
Imperial).
After you make that selection, provide descriptors for the “Scenario” you are analyzing and a text “Description”.
Also on this screen, select the project investment options that will govern the calculation of project ROI and profitability,
namely design “Operating Life of Plant,” duration of “Plant Startup,” onset date for “Basic Engineering,” and the design
operating hours per year (also shown in Figure 10).
After making these selections, a costing file will be created (see Figure 11).
When you click on the “load simulation data” button this task will happen in the background. This transfers key
process information needed for the economics software to define the process flow schema and perform mapping and
sizing operations.
The economic work flow is flexible and has both the ability to automatically establish “default” mappings, representing
best-engineering judgment contained within the software models, as well as the capability to over-ride these mappings
and substitute your own mappings, based on your engineering decisions as to which equipment models you select at this
stage of the design process.
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In each case, there is a default mapping, but there are also other mappings that the engineer can select instead.
Here are a few key points to remember when executing the mapping workflow:
(1) Select “map all items,” the first time you use relative economic evaluation. The ‘Map selected items’ option is for
changing/updating mappings when you have changed part of an established process design.
(2) When you are first using economics for a model run you should always select “Default AND simulator data”. If you
don’t select this option, the sizing performed in the simulation will not be carried across to the economics software!
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If you have better engineering information or assumptions available, or have company-specific sizing algorithms to apply,
these can be entered at this point.
Note: At this juncture, you may also interface to custom sizing programs that your company may be using that have been
developed in MS Excel or equivalent. Covering that topic is an advanced topic beyond the scope of this introductory tutorial.
The equipment grid has one tab sheet for each type of equipment. The columns represent individual equipment items.
The rows contain the key variables for that equipment. After changing the data you should re-size and re-evaluate the
costing. It is important to re-size the equipment first because equipment sizes may depend on the physical properties of
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the materials of construction. For example, the area of an exchanger depends on the thermal conductivity of the tubing.
Re-sizing the equipment ensures that the estimated costs are based on the changes in equipment size.
14. Reporting
The results of the economic evaluation can be reviewed and
manipulated in several ways.
This will give you access to a majority of the economic information that
you will need to rapidly review the economic feasibility of a modeling
scenario and to compare process alternatives.
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When you run the relative economics, Aspen HYSYS stores the associated economics files in a new working folder, which
you will find as a sub-folder within your current HYSYS working folder. The resulting APEA files can be handed over to the
estimating department and can be directly opened in the APEA and ACCE estimating software products from AspenTech,
for further development or fine tuning of the cost estimate that has been preliminarily produced during this conceptual
design workflow.
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Public website:
The following web page provides links to a number of useful resources on integrated economics -
http://www.aspentech.com/solutions/industry_solutions/epc/integrated-economics.aspx
Support website:
The support website provides an extensive and growing knowledge base on simulation, economics and the integrated website.
“Brief Tutorial on relative costing during conceptual design with Aspen Plus“
“Step-by-step Technical Webinar: Getting started with Integrated Economics with Aspen Plus”
“Step-by-step Technical Webinar: Getting started with Integrated Economics with HYSYS”
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