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UniSim Design Suite: Features
  • Integrated Steady-State and Dynamic Modeling Environment – Provides a fully integrated dynamic simulation capability. A steady-state model can be leveraged into a dynamic model which offers rigorous and high-fidelity results with a very fine level of equipment geometry and performance detail. Enables users to extend modeling efforts across multiple engineering activities.
  • Easy-to-Use Windows Environment – PFDs provide a clear and concise graphical representation of the process flowsheet. Includes productivity features such as cut, copy, paste, auto connection and organizing large cases into sub-flowsheets.
  • Comprehensive Unit Operations – Includes distillation, reactions, heat transfer operations, rotating equipment and logical operations in the steady-state and dynamic environments. Proven to deliver quality, realistic results and handle various situations such as vessel emptying or overflowing, and reverse flow.
  • Pressure-Flow Dynamics - Provides quick and accurate simulation of real-world dynamic behavior. Can provide real-time results for large models.
  • Enhanced Hold-up Model – Predicts material inventory and dynamic response of process operations reliably.
  • OLE Automation/Active X Compliance – Permits the integration of user-created unit operations, proprietary reaction kinetic expressions and specialized property packages. Interfaces easily with programs such as Microsoft Excel and Visual Basic.
  • Extensibility – Allows for increased simulation functionality through seamless integration of proprietary custom unit operation models.
  • Scalable Approach to Modeling and Simulation – Higher levels of detail in equipment geometry or configuration can be added to increase the level of fidelity of applications, such as for operator training systems.
  • Rich Set of Control Functionality – Supports process control and detailed process monitoring. Includes a suite of controllers and various logical operations.
  • Enhanced Features – Provides enhanced functionality such as cause-and-effect matrices, an event scheduler, which is ideal for start-up and shut-down sequencing and flowsheet automation, and a new Simulation Balance Tool introduced in R370, which provides a mechanism to check for material and energy balances within the UniSim Design flowsheets as a means to gain a rapid overview of all entities across the flowsheet.
  • External Database Loader System - Becomes available in R370 which provides users access to 3rd party pure compound database.  the first external compound property database supported by UniSim Design is the DIPPR 801 database.
  • Speciality Thermodynamic Package - A new Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) association model and property package is available in UniSim Design 370. This was developed jointly with Honeywell's Specialty Materials group.  OLI Electrolytes Option - Provided in UniSim Design as an embedded technology directly from Honeywell, including OLI’s new Mixed Solvent Electrolyte model, Corrosion Analyzer and rate based OLI distillation solver in R370 when using OLI's thermodynamics, as well as the newly added feature to support user-defined hypothetical components.
  • PVT Environment – Incorporates third-party thermodynamic packages for upstream/oil and gas applications, such as the PVTSim package from Calsep and Multiflash from InfoChem.
  • UniSim License Manager - Includes support for commuting, allowing users to check licenses out from a license server for use while disconnected from the network. It also provides a token system licensing model.
  • Oil and Gas Capabilities – Includes support for Black Oil models, allowing non-compositional simulation of processes, OLGA/S technologies from Scandpower for pipeline simulation and link to Schlumberger's PIPESIM package for pipeline network simulation.
  • Corrosion Prediction Feature - Honeywell's Predict-SW (Sour Water) corrosion software tool is now available as a utility in UniSim Design.  Predict SW provides a new methodology for assessment and control of H2S-dominated, ammonium bisulfide corrosion.
  • Solid Handling Capabilities - Specific unit operations, such as Vibrating Screen, Baghouse Filter, Centrifuge, Conveyor, crusher and Rotary Breaker, become availabile in R370.  Other unit operations such as pump and pipe are enhanced to deal with slurry systems.
  • UniSim Design in the UniSim Operations Suite - UniSim Design is the primary simulator technology used in the UniSim Operations Suite. R360 includes a number of models ported from the Shadow Plant simulator, including a Tube Bundle model and a Hydrotreater model. Additional models continue to be ported over as needed.  R370 incorporates the UOP CCR dynamic model for OTS applications.
  • Support for Aspen HYSYS Simulation Cases - UniSim Design R370 supports the reading of any simulation case saved by Aspen HYSYS 2006 or earlier. It also supports writing out a UniSim Design simulation case in HYSYS 2006 format so simulation cases may be shared between UniSim Design and HYSYS in both directions.

UniSim Heat Exchangers

  • UniSim Shell-Tube Exchanger Modeler provides thermal design, checking or simulation of shell and tube heat exchangers and can be used standalone by the thermal specialist for exchanger design or as an integrated product with UniSim Design.  
  • UniSim Crossflow Exchanger Modeler provides thermal design, checking or simulation of cross-flow heat exchangers including process air-cooled heat exchangers, economizers and the convection sections of fired heaters. The modeler can be used standalone by the thermal specialist for exchanger design or integrated with UniSim Design.  
  • UniSim Plate-Fin Exchanger Modeler performs detailed simulation of multi-stream plate-fin heat exchangers made from brazed aluminum, stainless steel or titanium. It can be used standalone by the thermal specialist for exchanger design or integrated with UniSim Design.  
  • UniSim Fired Process Heater Modeler, as a standalone product, provides calculations for the simulation, troubleshooting and operations of gas or oil-fired process heaters, dealing with both the firebox and convection sections.
  • UniSim Plate Exchanger Modeler, as a standalone product, provides design, rating and performance simulation of plate and frame heat exchangers, either gasketed plate and frame or welded or brazed plate. In design mode, it can determine the optimum heat exchanger configuration. It can also check or simulate heat exchangers where the geometry is specified, allowing users to troubleshoot or de-bottleneck operating units. The characteristics common to many commercially available plate and frame heat exchangers are handled.
  • UniSim FeedWater Heater Modeler becomes available in R370 as a standalone product for estimating the thermal performance of conventional closed shell-and-tube type feedwater heaters used in power plants.
  • UniSim Process Pipeline Modeler becomes available in R370 as a standalone product for estimating the steady state performance of an unbranched pipeline system carrying single phase or two-phase flows.

 

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