Optimize Refinery Process Models with Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining

Benefits

• Discover how the key features of Aspen HYSYS Petroleum Refining allow rapid flowsheet construction for fractionation columns and refinery reactors such as FCC, HCR &  Reformer units
• Use the HYSYS flowsheet interfaces for quick and effective modeling of refinery models including complicated refinery reactors
• Add assay data to track over 50 major petroleum properties such as sulfur and octane number
• Investigate how the complex, rigorous reactor models can streamline and organize your simulation efforts
• Evaluate the performance of existing refinery models with Calibration & the Case Study feature
• Improve the convergence of a simulation, troubleshoot common simulation problems
• Optimize refinery models using the  Aspen HYSYS Optimizer
• Review and understand workflow for making HYSYS model data readable by Aspen PIMS

Approach

•  Instruction on modeling refinery-based simulations
•  Instructor-guided demonstrations of features
•  Hands-on workshops using examples from the oil refining industry
•  Detailed course notes

Pre-requisites

•  A background in the petroleum refining industry
•  A functional knowledge of Aspen HYSYS is needed; or must have attend EHY101 Aspen HYSYS: Process Modeling

Subsequent Courses

•  EHY202 Aspen HYSYS: Advanced Process Modeling Topics
•  EHY223 Aspen HYSYS Dynamics: Dynamic Modeling
•  RPA101 Aspen PIMS: Introduction to Refinery Planning

Agenda

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Review refinery reactor capabilities in Hysys Petroleum Refining
• Introduce the workflow of various reactor models

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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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