Getting Started
- Introduce Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining
- Outline the workflow for starting a HYSYS Petroleum Refining Simulation
- Discuss Petroleum Assay input options
- Use HYSYS Petroleum Refining assays with in a process flowsheet
- Workshop: Add assay data with petroleum properties and install into a flowsheet material stream
Atmospheric Crude Column
- Build and converge an atmospheric crude column
- Use Aspen HYSYS to analyse and predict the behavior of a simulated column
- Add side strippers and pump arounds to a column to improve operation and efficiency
- Use HYSYS Petroleum Refining petroleum properties to monitor column performance and product quality
- Use cut-point specifications to improve product quality and quantity
- Workshop: Construct, run, analyze, and manipulate an atmospheric crude column simulation
Vacuum Tower & Heat Integration
- Install a vacuum tower with side draws and pump arounds
- Perform packing sizing and rating calculations using the Column Analysis feature
- Review the Recycle logical operation
- Export column pump around streams to the main flowsheet and integrate them with other unit operations
- Configure a Heat Exchanger model in Rating mode
- Workshop: Model a vacuum tower to further process atmospheric residue; perform hydraulic calculations on column internal such as trays and packing with column analysis feature and Integrate the pump around streams associated with an atmospheric crude column with elements of a pre-heat train
Atmospheric Crude Column Optimization
- Use the Derivative Analysis tool to define optimization variables and process constraints for an atmospheric crude column optimization
- Create a HYSYS Spreadsheet to define an optimization objective function
- Run the Hyprotech SQP Optimizer
- Workshop: Use the SQP optimizer in Aspen HYSYS to determine the optimal operating conditions for an atmospheric crude column
Refinery Reactors
- Review refinery reactor capabilities in Hysys Petroleum Refining
- Introduce the workflow of various reactor models
Petroleum Feeder
- Add a Petroleum Feeder unit operation to a HYSYS Petroleum Refining simulation
- Describe how a Petroleum Feeder can be used to setup feeds as blends and/or cuts of petroleum assays
- Workshop: Introduce a Petroleum Feeder to a flowsheet and explore petroleum stream physical properties
Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Reactor
- Create an Aspen FCC (Fluidized Catalytic Cracking) template
- Calibrate an FCC model using a variety of data sets
- Import an FCC into a HYSYS Petroleum Refining flowsheet and integrate it with other unit operations
- Workshop: Create an FCC template file and use it to test a variety of operational parameters; calibrate an FCC and introduce it to a HYSYS Petroleum Refining flowsheet
Hydrocracker Reactor
- Learn how to create and configure an Hydrocracker reactor template
- Understand how to calibrate a Hydrocracker model based on measured data
- Simulate a Hydrocracker and run either standalone or within a HYSYS Petroleum Refining flowsheet
- Workshop: Build a new Hydrocracker reactor template and calibrate it using provided data; install a Hydrocracker into an Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining model
Catalytic Reformer
- Learn how to create and configure a Catalytic Reformer template
- Understand how to calibrate a Catalytic Reformer model based on measured data
- Simulate a Catalytic Reformer and run either standalone or within a HYSYS Petroleum Refining flowsheet
- Workshop: Build a new Catalytic Reformer reactor template and calibrate it using provided data; install a Reformer into an Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining model
Engineering Study and Refinery Planning Model Update
- Implement Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining to help on engineering study and refinery planning model update
- Trainer will introduce related eLearning resource :Aspen HYSYS: Maintain Accurate Planning Models Using the Streamlined Planning Model Update Workflow
Delayed Coker Reactor
- Learn how to create and configure a Delayed Coker model
- Simulate a Delayed Coker Model with Rigorous Fractionator within a HYSYS Petroleum Refining flowsheet
- Understand how to calibrate a Delayed Coker model based on measured data
- Workshop: Create a delayed coking model, including setting up a heavy crude feed with a petroleum assay, configuring a delayed coker unit operation, calibrating the coker unit, and putting a recycle network together
Visbreaker
- Learn how to create and configure an Visbreaker model
- Simulate a Visbreaker Model with Rigorous Fractionator within a HYSYS Petroleum Refining flowsheet
- Understand how to calibrate a Visbreaker model based on measured data
- Workshop: Create a visbreaker model, including setting up a heavy crude feed with a petroleum assay, configuring a visbreaker model operation, calibrating the visbreaker unit
Naphtha Hydrotreater
- Learn how to create and configure an Naphtha Hydrotreater model
- Understand how to calibrate a Naphtha Hydrotreater model based on plant measured data
- Adjust required H2 feed and analyze required mixed temperature to achieve product quality
- Workshop: Build a Naphtha Hydrotreater model and calibrate based on measurement data
Alkylation
- Learn how to create and configure H2So4 Alkylation Unit model
- Evaluate different feed’s impact to the reactor
- Workshop: Build an H2SO4 Alkylation Unit Operation
Assay Manipulator and Product Blender
- Use the Assay Manipulator operation to adjust petroleum properties
- Mix petroleum material streams using the Product Blender
- Optimize Petroleum Blender products using the HYSYS SQP Optimizer
- Workshop: Modify petroleum properties using the Assay Manipulator; mix and optimize assay blends using the Product Blender
Petroleum Yield Shift Reactor
- Perform efficient reactor modeling by using data tables with the Petroleum Yield Shift Reactor
- Implement the Petroleum Shift Reactor model for an LP sub-model approach to refinery reactors
- Manipulate product yields and properties using linear shift relations
- Workshop: Use a Petroleum Shift Reactor to create a simplified Delayed Coker reactor model
Refining Short Cut Column (Optional)
- Model an atmospheric crude column using the Refining Short Cut Column unit operation
- Review the setup options and analyze the results of the Refining Short Cut Column unit operation
- Calibrate the column to match plant data
- Workshop: Simulate a Refining Short Cut Column and introduce calibration to tune the model to operational data
Pre-Heat Train (Optional)
- Introduce the Aspen HYSYS Heat Exchanger unit operation
- Implement mathematical operations (Balance and Adjust)
- Use the Case Study feature to run flowsheet-wide scenarios
- Workshop: Build and analyze a crude fractionation pre-heat train using a variety of HYSYS heat transfer unit operations
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