Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating (EDR)

The Aspen Exchanger Design and Rating (EDR) product family delivers the most comprehensive range of heat exchanger design and rating software in the world. It builds on over 40 years of heritage from HTFS and B-JAC. EDR tools integrate with Aspen Plus and Aspen HYSYS process simulation to enable process engineers, and thermal and mechanical equipment specialists to collaborate effectively.

Auto-size Rigorous Exchangers in your Aspen HYSYS® Flowsheet. Generate fully rigorous EDR models inside your simulation in one step! Use the new Auto-sizing and Interactive sizing features to transform any simple model into a rigorous Shell & Tube or Air Cooled design. Evaluate preliminary designs in minutes and reduce capital cost by 10 – 30%, improve engineering productivity by 20%, or increase operating efficiency by 5 – 10%. Rigorous models in are also available for fired heaters, and multi-stream plate-fin exchangers. Video: Autosizing Shell & Tube Exchangers in Aspen HYSYS V8.0 Video: What's New Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating in Aspen HYSYS Additional Resources >>		Interactively Size Rigorous Exchangers in Aspen Plus®. Quickly transform any simple model into a rigorous exchanger model in your Aspen Plus flowsheet using the new Interactive Sizing feature. Learn how to evaluate preliminary designs in minutes to achieve better overall optimization of the process and to provide accurate estimates of exchanger cost and plot space requirements. Interactive Sizing is available for Shell & Tube and AirCooled exchangers; just one of many innovations for heat exchanger design and simulation in the V8 release. Video: Interactive Sizing for Shell & Tube Exchangers in Aspen Plus V8.0 Additional Resources >>

Design, check-rate, and simulate all TEMA types. The Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger designs all major industrial shell & tube exchanger equipment types. It provides cost optimized equipment designs for a given set of process conditions, resulting in typical savings of 10-30% on cost per exchanger. It also handles single phase heating and cooling, boiling and condensing, and thermosiphon reboiling. Tutorial: Getting Started with Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger Video: Autosizing Shell & Tube Exchangers in Aspen HYSYS V8.0 Learn More Additional Resources >>		Perform mechanical design and rating of exchangers and pressure vessels. Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical optimizes the entire design of exchangers, minimizing the thicknesses of all major components. It integrates closely with Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger, allowing users to optimize both thermal and mechanical requirements efficiently and provides accurate stress calculations conforming to internationally accepted code standards including ASME and others. Tutorial: Getting Started with Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical Learn More

Design and simulate air-cooled heat exchangers. Aspen Air Cooled Exchanger can design, check-rate, and simulate air-cooled and other crossflow heat exchangers for all common process applications, including single phase, condensation, and evaporation. X-side applications include dry air, wet air, or gas mixtures. Air Cooled Exchanger can handle heat recovery as well as process cooling. Additionally, it can optimize both capital and operating costs. Learn More Additional Resources >>		Design and troubleshoot gas- or oil-fired process heaters. Aspen Fired Heater is a tool for the efficient design of new chemical process, refinery crude and vacuum furnaces. It integrates with Aspen HYSYS for efficient revamp studies for additional convection sources, evaluation of operational efficiency, and flagging of high tube metal temperatures. Webinar: Best Practices for Integrating Aspen Fired Heater with Aspen HYSYS Learn More Additional Resources >>

Design and operate more efficient compact plate and plate fin heat exchangers. Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger is the latest generation of thermal design software for multi-stream plate fin heat exchangers. It can be integrated directly in Aspen HYSYS to achieve robust process modeling. Aspen Plate Exchanger lets engineers evaluate plate exchangers as an alternative to shell & tube designs. Access a range of geometries from a number of leading manufacturers to independently evaluate any vendor design. Aspen Plate Fin Exchanger Aspen Plate Exchanger Additional Resources >>		Access vast networks for heat exchanger best practices and best-in-class properties. The Aspen HTFS Research Network provides online access to: comprehensive references to heat exchanger theory and practice, validation of design procedures used by the Aspen Exchanger Design & Rating thermal suite of products, and over 40 years of HTFS research. Access the world’s largest database of pure component and phase equilibrium data for conventional chemicals and electrolytes regularly updated by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Aspen HTFS Research Network Aspen Properties Additional Resources >>

"The Aspen EDR suite has been a major cog in Radiant’s growth from a $200,000 company to a $4M company in the last 10 years."

Rohan Rajapurkar - Owner - Radiant Engineers

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