Aspen HYSYS

Prepared by: Ms. Nurul Sakinah

Aspen HYSYS SIMULATION ???
• A process modeling environment for
conceptual design and operations
improvement of petroleum and oil & gas
processes

• Provides the solution to meet this need,

providing vital insight for solving the critical
engineering and operating problems that
arise throughout the plant lifecycle.
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 What Aspen Hysys can do?
1. Mass and energy balance
2. Measured Properties of a Fluid
- Temperature
- Pressure
- Flowrate
- Composition
- Thermophysical properties Density
 Viscosity
 Surface
Tension
3. Calculate the properties that relate to fluid
states
- Internal Energy
- Heat
- Enthalpy
- Entropy
- Free Energies (Gibbs)
- Energy
Property Generation Important !!!

• Heart of any simulation program

• Different systems require different methods of
property generation
 Grouping (Families)
1. Equation of state
2. Activity (Dual) Models
 1. Equations of state
• HYSYS equations of state
- Peng Robinson
- Peng Robinson Strycek Vera
- Soave Redlich Kwong
- Kabadi Danner
- Zudkevitch Joffee
- Lee Kessler Plocker
 1. Equations of state
• General Applicability
- Hydrocarbons
- Non Polar or slightly polar
- Refining
- Gas Processing
 1. Equations of state
• Peng Robinson (PR)
- oil, gas and petrochemical applications
- T > -271 deg. C, P < 100, 000 kPa
- heavy oil system
- aqueous glycol and CH3OH system
- acid gas /sour gas systems
 1. Equations of state
• Peng-Robinson Stryjek-Vera (PRSV)
- extension of PR for moderately non-
ideal system. E.g alcohol-H2O or
alcohol-HC
- better vapor pressure, heat of
vaporization prediction
 1. Equations of state
• Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK)
- comparable results to PR. However it has
limited applicability
- not reliable for non-ideal system (e.g
systems with CH3OH or glycol
- poor in predicting light component (e.g H2)
- oil, gas and petrochemical applications
- T > -143 deg.C , P < 35 000 kPa
 1. Equations of state
• Kabadi Danner
- modification of SRK to improve vapor-
liquid-liquid equilibrium for H2O – HC
system
- limited by accuracy of solubility of HC in
aqueous phase
- applicable particularly to dilute region
 1. Equations of state
• Lee – Kesler – Plocker
- accurate for non – polar substances and
mixtures
- slightly more accurate for heavy HC system
however requires more computer
resources
- should not be used for Tr > 0.96
- empirical critical constant
 1. Equations of state
• Zudkevitch Joffe
- modification of Redlich Kwong
- better prediction for VLE with H2
- improved prediction on pure component
equilibrium
 2. Activity (Dual) Models
• Wilson Equation
• Non Random Two Liquid (NRTL)
• Universal Quasi Chemical (UNIQUAC)