Jan 25 2006
Aspen Technology, Inc. has announced the availability of its new generation of applications for the design, rating and simulation of heat exchangers. Aspen Tasc+™, for shell & tube heat exchangers, and Aspen Acol+™, for air-cooled heat exchangers, combine the best of the industry-leading technologies from Aspen HTFS and Aspen B-JAC, and represent a major step forward for thermal and process engineers.
The new applications provide engineers with versatile tools for optimizing heat exchanger design and simulating their performance. Sophisticated optimization logic enables the user to select the optimum design for the specified process conditions, resulting in typical savings of 10—30 percent on the capital cost per heat exchanger. The applications can also be integrated with the Aspen Plus® and Aspen HYSYS® process simulation tools, allowing evaluation of heat exchanger performance as part of an overall plant or process. This approach can deliver optimized operations with higher productivity and lower operating costs, in addition to significant capital savings at the design phase for new and upgraded processes.
"These new generation applications are built on AspenTech’s strong heritage in heat exchanger design and simulation, including the exceptional knowledge generated by the Aspen HTFS Research Network™," said Blair Wheeler, Senior Vice President, AspenTech. "We firmly believe that Aspen Tasc+ and Aspen Acol+ will set the standard for ease of use and will enable true concurrent engineering. Their comprehensive interfaces to Aspen Plus®, Aspen HYSYS® and Aspen Teams® facilitate efficient collaboration between the key engineering disciplines involved in front-end and detailed engineering of the process plant."
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