Aspen Plus

Maximize profits using a plant-wide simulation solution that combines unparalleled accuracy and engineering collaboration with time-saving workflows.

The Chemical Industry's Leading Process Simulation Software

Comprehensive for the Chemical Industry

Use integrated modeling for batch and continuous processes from innovation through operations.

Intuitive, Time-Saving Workflows

Employ seamless, integrated tools for costing, energy management, safety analysis and equipment design. Get visual insights with a modern user interface for today's engineers.

Operational Decision Support

Enable lifecycle modeling from design through operations for faster troubleshooting, online performance monitoring and real-time optimization.

Trusted Process Simulation

Rely on a process simulator built on over 35 years of experience and feedback from top chemical companies. Access the latest innovations in process simulation.

What's new in V11?

Boost profitability by closing the gap between planning and actual operations through the Aspen Plus V11 release. Improve batch operations through visual scheduling insights, optimize distillation columns through customizable tray design and added configuration flexibility and build your models with confidence with expanded physical property capabilities. Choose traditional desktop or deployment in the cloud.

Learn More about V11

Applications

Basic Chemicals
Downstream
Engineering Procurement and Construction
Fabricators
Pharmaceuticals
Refining
Specialty Chemicals
View All

Basic Chemicals

Bulk Chemical Process Improvement

Boost bulk chemical quality and throughput. Improve production rates, yield, energy efficiency and quality through rigorous process modeling tools.

5 videos in gallery

Fast Bid Packages for Licensors

Reduce the cost and time of designing and releasing bid packages with an integrated estimating platform leveraging reusable modular templates.

5 videos in gallery

Polymer Process Optimization

Optimize production and rapidly develop new grades. Improve production rates, yield and quality through rigorous optimization of the polymer process.

0 videos in gallery

Solid Process Optimization

Deliver consistent quality of solids. Reduce capital and energy costs while ensuring consistent particle size distribution by using rigorous solids-handling equipment models integrated with fluid simu...

0 videos in gallery

Downstream

Monitoring Heat Exchanger Fouling

Improve plant efficiency by optimizing HX operations.

5 videos in gallery

Engineering Procurement and Construction

Bidding & Cost Estimation

Minimize estimating risk and develop bids faster through the improved consistency and accuracy of an integrated, model-based estimating system.

5 videos in gallery

Concurrent Conceptual Engineering

Implement a model-based system that seamlessly integrates all design and project cost estimate functions, delivering a lower-CAPEX project.

5 videos in gallery

Distillation Design & Revamps

Cut CAPEX and prevent issues by selecting optimal trays and packings with interactive plots built using correlations and process simulation data.

5 videos in gallery

Dynamic Studies

Hone your understanding of operational changes through dynamic insights with trusted accuracy and built-in templates to get started.

5 videos in gallery

FEED Execution

Reduce FEED package preparation time and decrease rework by allowing engineering design changes to propagate consistently through interconnected FEED tools.

5 videos in gallery

Integration with Detailed Engineering

Optimize CAPEX and minimize bidding and estimating risk. Deliver bids with optimized designs faster, with less rework and errors through an integrated model based estimating tool from concept design t...

0 videos in gallery

Monitoring Heat Exchanger Fouling

Improve plant efficiency by optimizing HX operations.

5 videos in gallery

Operations Decision Support

Increase throughput and operating efficiency through data-driven decisions enabled by plant-calibrated predictive models in an operator-friendly interface.

5 videos in gallery

Operator Training Simulator Deployment

Train operators for startups, shutdowns and complex operational changes. Deploy trusted, maintainable operator training simulator (OTS) solutions sooner using dynamic simulation, trusted for its accur...

0 videos in gallery

Process Safety Analysis

Reduce conservatism and engineering time using the complete overpressure protection solution with expert-trusted solutions and guided workflows.

5 videos in gallery

Project Cost Estimation

Improve transparency and lower CAPEX though use of a shared model-based estimating platform from conceptual engineering through construction.

5 videos in gallery

Tuning Models with Plant Data

Models that match reality by calibrating them to plant data for improved design and revamp with process understanding through validation with historical data.

5 videos in gallery

Fabricators

Monitoring Heat Exchanger Fouling

Improve plant efficiency by optimizing HX operations.

5 videos in gallery

Pharmaceuticals

Adsorption & Chromatography Improvement

Optimize separation processes. Design and optimize adsorption processes to improve purity and throughput with deeper insights using rigorous models.

0 videos in gallery

Batch Process Improvement

Simplify batch process development. Optimize your batch and continuous process with a common platform from development through manufacturing.

5 videos in gallery

Environmental & Safety Analysis

Reduce risks with dynamic analysis and overpressure protection guidance developed using expert-trusted solutions and guided workflows.

5 videos in gallery

Optimization with Custom Equipment

Optimize design and support operational decisions with quick and easy-to-build custom unit operations models.

0 videos in gallery

Physical Property Estimation

Create process models on a solid foundation. Start your modeling efforts with confidence with the most up-to-date and comprehensive portfolio of physical property data.

5 videos in gallery

Polymer Process Optimization

Optimize production and rapidly develop new grades. Improve production rates, yield and quality through rigorous optimization of the polymer process.

0 videos in gallery

Recipe Based Process Scale Up

Develop and transfer batch processes from lab to manufacturing by using the recipe as process mode.

0 videos in gallery

Refining

Monitoring Heat Exchanger Fouling

Improve plant efficiency by optimizing HX operations.

5 videos in gallery

Specialty Chemicals

Adsorption & Chromatography Improvement

Optimize separation processes. Design and optimize adsorption processes to improve purity and throughput with deeper insights using rigorous models.

0 videos in gallery

Batch Process Improvement

Simplify batch process development. Optimize your batch and continuous process with a common platform from development through manufacturing.

5 videos in gallery

Environmental & Safety Analysis

Reduce risks with dynamic analysis and overpressure protection guidance developed using expert-trusted solutions and guided workflows.

5 videos in gallery

Optimization with Custom Equipment

Optimize design and support operational decisions with quick and easy-to-build custom unit operations models.

0 videos in gallery

Physical Property Estimation

Create process models on a solid foundation. Start your modeling efforts with confidence with the most up-to-date and comprehensive portfolio of physical property data.

5 videos in gallery

Polymer Process Optimization

Optimize production and rapidly develop new grades. Improve production rates, yield and quality through rigorous optimization of the polymer process.

0 videos in gallery

Recipe Based Process Scale Up

Develop and transfer batch processes from lab to manufacturing by using the recipe as process mode.

0 videos in gallery

Solid Process Optimization

0 videos in gallery

View All

Adsorption & Chromatography Improvement

Optimize separation processes. Design and optimize adsorption processes to improve purity and throughput with deeper insights using rigorous models.

0 videos in gallery

Batch Process Improvement

Simplify batch process development. Optimize your batch and continuous process with a common platform from development through manufacturing.

5 videos in gallery

Bidding & Cost Estimation

Minimize estimating risk and develop bids faster through the improved consistency and accuracy of an integrated, model-based estimating system.

5 videos in gallery

Bulk Chemical Process Improvement

Boost bulk chemical quality and throughput. Improve production rates, yield, energy efficiency and quality through rigorous process modeling tools.

5 videos in gallery

Concurrent Conceptual Engineering

Implement a model-based system that seamlessly integrates all design and project cost estimate functions, delivering a lower-CAPEX project.

5 videos in gallery

Distillation Design & Revamps

Cut CAPEX and prevent issues by selecting optimal trays and packings with interactive plots built using correlations and process simulation data.

5 videos in gallery

Distillation Improvement

Restore smooth and optimal column performance. Increase column efficiency and resolve issues faster with interactive hydraulic visualization of distillation.

4 videos in gallery

Dynamic Studies

Hone your understanding of operational changes through dynamic insights with trusted accuracy and built-in templates to get started.

5 videos in gallery

Energy Management

Optimize energy Use. Predict and eliminate energy waste though use of an integrated design and modeling tools.

5 videos in gallery

Environmental & Safety Analysis

Reduce risks with dynamic analysis and overpressure protection guidance developed using expert-trusted solutions and guided workflows.

5 videos in gallery

Fast Bid Packages for Licensors

Reduce the cost and time of designing and releasing bid packages with an integrated estimating platform leveraging reusable modular templates.

5 videos in gallery

FEED Execution

Reduce FEED package preparation time and decrease rework by allowing engineering design changes to propagate consistently through interconnected FEED tools.

5 videos in gallery

Heat Exchanger Design

Select the optimum heat exchanger size and rating when both cost and performance must be balanced through rigorous up-to-date integrated modeling capabilities.

5 videos in gallery

Integration with Detailed Engineering

0 videos in gallery

Monitoring Heat Exchanger Fouling

Improve plant efficiency by optimizing HX operations.

5 videos in gallery

Operations Decision Support

Increase throughput and operating efficiency through data-driven decisions enabled by plant-calibrated predictive models in an operator-friendly interface.

5 videos in gallery

Operator Training Simulator Deployment

0 videos in gallery

Optimization with Custom Equipment

Optimize design and support operational decisions with quick and easy-to-build custom unit operations models.

0 videos in gallery

Physical Property Estimation

Create process models on a solid foundation. Start your modeling efforts with confidence with the most up-to-date and comprehensive portfolio of physical property data.

5 videos in gallery

Polymer Process Optimization

Optimize production and rapidly develop new grades. Improve production rates, yield and quality through rigorous optimization of the polymer process.

0 videos in gallery

Process Safety Analysis

Reduce conservatism and engineering time using the complete overpressure protection solution with expert-trusted solutions and guided workflows.

5 videos in gallery

Project Cost Estimation

Improve transparency and lower CAPEX though use of a shared model-based estimating platform from conceptual engineering through construction.

5 videos in gallery

Recipe Based Process Scale Up

Develop and transfer batch processes from lab to manufacturing by using the recipe as process mode.

0 videos in gallery

Solid Process Optimization

0 videos in gallery

Tuning Models with Plant Data

Models that match reality by calibrating them to plant data for improved design and revamp with process understanding through validation with historical data.

5 videos in gallery

Introducing aspenONE Engineering deployment in the cloud: Access the latest software anytime, anywhere

aspenONE Engineering software is now available for cloud deployment! aspenONE Engineering deployment in the cloud accelerates deployment and lowers the total cost of ownership for IT departments and allows user access to the latest aspenONE Engineering innovations anytime, anywhere, through a web browser.

Learn More