Aspen Plus™ Information

Creating and Simulating Chemical Reaction Models with Aspen Plus^™ 12.1

WELCOME to the ASPEN PLUS^™ Pages! ASPEN PLUS^™ is a software package designed to allow a user to build a process model and then simulate the model without tedious calculations.

Our web module that has a full example of use of Aspen Plus^™ to model Pyrolysis of Benzene is available thorugh the button below.

Pyrolysis of Benzene

ASPEN PLUS^™ can be used for a wide variety of chemical engineering tasks. For example, it can execute tasks as simple as describing thermodynamic properties of an ethanol and water mixture, or as complex as predicting the steady-state behavior of a full-scale petrochemical plant. This web site, however, will introduce ASPEN ^™ as a handy tool for simulating reaction engineering scenarios, such as designing and sizing reactors, predicting reaction conversions, and understanding reaction equilibrium behavior.

So, get to know ASPEN PLUS^™ by following the outline below. It will surely enhance your understanding of chemical reaction phenomena and the engineering behind them!

1. Introduction

2. Accessing ASPEN PLUS^™

3. Creating a Reaction Engineering Process Model
   1. Building a Process Flowsheet
   2. Entering Process Conditions
4. Running the Process Model
   1. Interpreting the Results
   2. Changing Process Conditions and Rerunning the Model
5. Example Problems
   1. 8-5: Adiabatic Production of Acetic Anhydride
   2. 8-5: Operation of a PFR with Heat Exchanger
6. Other Need-to-Knows
   1. Saving your Process Model
   2. Printing your Process Model
   3. Changing Names of Streams and Unit Operations
   4. Changing Units of Parameters
   5. Exiting ASPEN PLUS^™
7. Credits