Aspen Batch Plus®

Innovative recipe-based modeling technology for batch processes

Aspen Batch Plus is a recipe-based modeling technology for the batch industries, and is used for developing a process and generating required documentation from early route selection to full scale manufacturing. It facilitates sharing of information across the company by providing a standard approach for creating and managing process information throughout the development workflow. Aspen Batch Plus is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE™ Process Engineering applications.

Features

  • In the laboratory: Compare process alternatives, evaluate “make versus buy” decisions and select synthetic routes for new molecules. With minimal process information, conduct mass balances and obtain quick cost estimates.
  • In early process development: Develop the synthetic route coming from the laboratory and map conceptual processes to recipes. Aspen Batch Plus quickly evaluates process alternatives, generates material balances, performs cycle-time calculations and develops cost estimates during the early stages of process definition. Screen new processes more quickly and efficiently to identify those that are most cost-effective.
  • In the pilot plant: Develop kilo-scale processes from bench-scale recipes. Perform process-fit analysis, whereby a process is matched with the best possible site. Automatically generate plant operating instructions and process flow diagrams, as well as perform advanced emission calculations from a single recipe. These applications reduce time-to-market for process scale-up and maximize return on assets for existing pilot plant facilities.
  • In process engineering: Scale up the pilot process to full-scale. Perform an economic analysis of the process. Design the needed waste treatment and utility systems by calculating the peak-load requirements on shared resources (e.g., utilities, waste treatment, raw materials, and labor). Enable better planning of capacity expansions.
  • In production: Eliminate bottlenecks by identifying time- and size-limiting equipment at existing plants and investigate capacity expansions. Simulate single- or multi-product campaigns and calculate in-plant emission profiles. The ability to incorporate actual plant data from a data historian like Aspen InfoPlus.21® allows users to validate the process model or use a validated model to troubleshoot problem batches.

Benefits

Market leaders in the batch industries report that Aspen Batch Plus delivers tremendous value, resulting in:

  • Increased Productivity
    • Provide consistency and clarity in assumptions, data, documentation and results
    • Input once, reuse data, automate documentation
    • Arrive at earlier go/no-go decisions
    • Reduce the number of trial-and-error batches
    • Bring people up-to-speed more quickly·
  • Reduced Capital and Operating Costs
    • Reduce over-design
    • Increase yield, purity, product and solvent recovery
    • Reduce energy use, excess raw material charges and wastes
    • Improve asset utilization

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