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Aspen Plus® Simulation Software - A Basic Course For Beginners
Prof. Prabirkumar Saha · IIT Guwahati
About
Aspen Plus is a process modeling tool used for process monitoring, optimization and conceptual design, especially by chemical process industries. This is a simple course on Aspen Plus Simulation engine that will teach one how to model the most common unit operations of a chemical plant. Basic unit operations such as Pump, Reactor, Valve, Heater, Distillation Column etc. will be demonstrated which would be helpful for students, teachers, engineers and researchers in the area of R&D and Plant Design/Operation. The course is didactic, with a lot of applied theory and case studies. At the end of the course one will be able to setup a simulation, run it, get design parameters, optimize and get results. This is highly recommended for those who are willing to take a career in simulation/modeling via software.
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Intended audience: Final year UG chemical engineering students and PG students having chemical engineering background. People from chemical process industries may also get benefitted with this course.
Prerequisites: People having Chemical Engineering background who have passed the following courses: Mass Transfer, Heat Transfer, Chemical Reaction Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics, and Mechanical Operations.
Lectures
Week 1: Basic Process Modelling - Introduction, Initiation and Properties
- Lec 1: Significance of software with example - Simulation on pen & paper vs. simulation on Aspen Plus
- Lec 2: Understanding Resources and My Exchange, Start using Aspen Plus
- Lec 3: Overview of setting up of property environment
Week 2: Basic Process Modelling - Simulation Overview
- Lec 4: Using Model Pallete - Mixers/Splitters, Separators
- Lec 5: Using Model Pallete - Exchangers
- Lec 6: Using Model Pallete - Columns
Week 3: Basic Process Modelling - Simulation Overview & Simulation of Plantwide Structure
- Lec 7: Using Model Palette - Reactors
- Lec 8: Using Model Palette - Pressure Changers
- Lec 9: Example: Hydrocarbon Treatment - Part 1
- Lec 10: Example: Hydrocarbon Treatment - Part 2
Week 4: Process and Property Analysis - In Details
- Lec 11: Setup, Components
- Lec 12: Property Methods
- Lec 13: Property Methods and Propeety Sets with example
Week 5: Process and Property Analysis - In Details
- Lec 14: Analysis tools (Pure Components and Binary mixtures)
- Lec 15: Analysis tools (Ternary mixtures), Data and Regression (Part 1)
- Lec 16: Data and Regression (Part 2), Property Estimation
- Lec 17: Practice problems on pure components
Week 6: Process and Property Analysis - In Details and Simulation
- Lec 18: Practice problems on binary mixtures
- Lec 19: Miscellaneous practice problems and case studies
- Lec 20: Model Analysis Tools
Week 7: Case Studies - 1,2 & 3
- Lec 21: Separation of Hydrocarbon Mixture
- Lec 22: Synthesis of Acetaldehyde from Ethanol
- Lec 23: BTX Separation through Distillation
Week 8: Case Studies - 4 & 5
- Lec 24: Synthesis of Methanol from Syngas
- Lec 25: Synthesis of Dimethyl Ether from Carbon Dioxide and Hydrogen
Week 9: Case Studies - 6, 7 & 8
- Lec 26: Synthesis of Ammonia in Cryogenic Process
- Lec 27: Production of Cumene
- Lec 28: Design, Rating and Simulation of Heat Exchanger
Week 10: Case Studies - 9 & 10
Week 11: Case Studies - 11, 12 & 13
- Lec 31: Hydrodealkylation of Toluene
- Lec 32: Isobutene Production Plant
- Lec 33: Nitric Oxide Production Plant
Week 12: Case Studies - 14 & 15
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Guwahati
- Department
- Chemical Engineering
- Teacher
- Prof. Prabirkumar Saha
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Chemistry, Engineering
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
- NPTEL states: "Distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike / CC BY - NC - SA", beside a BY-NC-SA badge.
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