Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger

Drive capital and operational efficiency through optimized design of shell

and tube heat exchangers
Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger is the latest generation of thermal design software for detailed simulation
and optimized design of shell and tube heat exchangers. Companies deploying Aspen Shell & Tube
Exchanger realize significant benefits, such as 10-30% equipment cost savings, reduced energy costs,
and increased engineering efficiency.

The Challenge
Heat transfer equipment accounts for up to 30% of process capital costs and 90% of operating costs. Designing or rating heat
exchangers effectively is a complicated task. Multiple engineering groups with different requirements are typically involved in
each aspect of the design process, using standalone tools with a minimum of integration. Manual transfer of information results
in costly errors, delays, and inconsistencies. An integrated solution that meets the needs of all functional groups is required to
provide a truly optimized design that drives capital and operational efficiency.

The AspenTech Solution

Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger: Key Technical Features
Multi-shell capability with no practical limits on
shells in series or parallel
All TEMA shell and head types
Double-pipe and multi-tube hairpin exchangers
Interface to Koch Heat Transfers twisted tube exchanger
modeling technology
Interactive graphical tube layout customization
Plain, low finned, or longitudinally finned tubes
General tubeside and shellside enhancement methods
Single or double segmental baffles, no tubes in window,
rod baffles, and unbaffled exchangers
Proper handling of fluids with two liquid phases
Background ASME mechanical design for more accurate
sizing, costing, and weight calculation

Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger enables optimum design, rating

and simulation of shell and tube heat exchangers for both
the expert and casual user. Integration with process
simulators and synthesis tools allows for improved reliability
by aligning people and information across technological
boundaries.
High level run-time integration with Aspen Plus and
Aspen HYSYS enable engineers to rigorously model heat
exchanger operation and identify capital saving opportunities
in the context of the overall process. A bi-directional interface
to AspenTechs mechanical design program, Aspen Shell &
Tube Mechanical, also enables engineers to efficiently
optimize for both thermal and mechanical design constraints.
The detailed design ensures sufficient area while identifying
potential operational problems such as those related to
velocity, tube vibration, pressure drop, and temperature.

Budget costing package, customized to your own labor

and material costs

Three major physical property packages are supported,

allowing for automated transfer of fluid property information
between the process simulators and
Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger.

EN, JIS, ASME, and AFNOR material databases

SI, metric, US, and user customizable systems of measure

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Wide Range of Applications

Conceptual heat exchanger design is a key function of the process engineer at the early stages of a project,
requiring added detail as the project evolves. Thermal experts must optimize the sizing of new equipment,
rate existing equipment to ensure sufficient area, and select the best exchanger type for a given application.
Heat exchanger fabricators must thermally guarantee their heat exchangers, providing the most economical
heat exchangers for a given set of process conditions.
Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger addresses these wide range of application needs. It serves both the engineering
contractor and the equipment fabricator, allowing sharing of models from conceptual design to operational
troubleshooting. Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger facilitates the full range of practical process applications,
including reflux condensers, kettle reboilers, thermosiphon reboilers, falling film evaporators, and mult-shell,
multi-pass feed-effluent trains. This flexibility allows the process streams to be single phase, boiling or
condensing vapors, single component or any mixture with or without non-condensable gases in any condition
(including superheated vapor, saturated vapor, or subcooled liquid).
Three major databases are included - Aspen Properties, an industry standard in the chemical sector;
Aspen HYSYS Thermodynamics COM Interface, the leading package in oil & gas processing; and Aspen
B-JAC standard properties package. This combined collection contains over 15,000 component properties
and more than 30 industry-standard VLE methods and mixing rules.
Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger supports the design of all shell and tube types, including double pipe, and
multi-tube hairpin heat exchangers.

Product integration allows you to optimize and evaluate the

performance of your heat exchangers within a plant as well
as validate your thermal and mechanical equipment designs.

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Output
Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger uses the power and flexibility of the Microsoft Windows environment to allow
you to explore exchanger geometry and performance detail. In addition, Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger is
designed to support drag & drop interfacing with Microsoft Excel, as well as high-level communication
with other software.

Thermal output includes:

Optimization path that identifies the most economical
design selection, possible alternative designs, and
controlling design constraints
Extensive warning and error reporting, alerting you
to potential operational problems
Fully completed TEMA data sheet
Tube layout and setting plan drawings
*.DXF files from drawings for interface to CAD and
graphics applications
Comprehensive incremental output
Vibration analysis (Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating
proprietary & TEMA methods)
Extensive graphing capabilities
Thermosiphon stability checks and flow
pattern evaluation

A setting plan and interactive tubesheet layout

are available, allowing you to visualize the heat
exchanger that has been designed.

Program optimization selects the optimum exchanger design

per cost or area.

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Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger is a part of the Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating family of products. Aspen
Exchanger Design and Rating products offer state-of-the-art heat exchanger simulation and design based
on over 30 years of industry-lead research. Our aim is to enhance the value of heat transfer solutions by
providing the most integrated product offering across the widest range of technologies. This enables our
customers to use the most advanced physically-based modeling, from unit design and overall process
design, through to optimization and operational monitoring.

aspenONE Process Engineering

Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating family of products is a key component of aspenONE Process Engineering
for chemical, refining, and E&P companies. aspenONE Process Engineering is an integrated lifecycle solution
from conceptual design through to plant startup and operations supportenabling our customers to build
and operate safer, competitive and more reliable process plants. Companies are able to reduce capital
and operating costs, increase engineering efficiency and quality, and accelerate time-to-marketwith
payback in months instead of years.

Worldwide Headquarters
Aspen Technology, Inc.
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EMEA Headquarters
AspenTech Ltd.
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Basingstoke Road
Reading UK
RG2 6DT
phone: +44-(0)-1189-226400
fax: +44-(0)-1189-226401
ATE_info@aspentech.com

About AspenTech
AspenTech is a leading provider of award-winning process optimization software and services. AspenTechs
integrated aspenONE solutions enable manufacturers to reduce costs, increase capacity, and optimize
operational performance end-to-end throughout the engineering, plant operations, and supply chain
management processes.
For more information, visit www.aspentech.com.

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