Leveraging aspenONE® Engineering for Continuous

Plant Safety and Environmental Considerations

May 2018

Larae Baker, Product Marketing Manager, Aspen Technology

Agenda
1. AspenTech Process Safety Analysis Tools

2. Workshop demonstration
– External Fire Scenario
– Wetted/Un-wetted API, Semi-Dynamic Flash
– Control valve failure
– Multiple Relief Valve Analysis

3. Documentation and Reports

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Safe Operations
Proper safety systems in place mitigate overpressure incidents, helping you:

Reduce downtime

Protect process equipment

Limit risk to personnel

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Safe Operations: A Pained Workflow

Traditional way
to ensure safety

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Safe Operations: A Pained Workflow
Problems that can arise:

Over conservative and

expensive systems

Unsafe systems from

transcription errors

Wasted time

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Safe Operations: A Pained Workflow
Move past safety challenges and:

Ensure safety – using

tools with proven accuracy

Minimize revamp costs – with tools

that provide rigorous analysis

Save time – no more

moving between tools

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Safety is Everyone’s Priority
Proper safety systems in place mitigate overpressure incidents, helping you:

Reduce downtime

Protect process equipment

Limit risk to personnel

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Using Tools to Elevate Safety Work

A Complete Overpressure
Protection Solution

HYSYS Dynamics for Safety

Aspen Flare System Analyzer™

Included in V9:
PSV Sizing in Aspen HYSYS®
 Acoustically Induced Vibration
Dynamics (AIV) Analysis
Included in V9:
KO Drum Rating Calculation
New Preferences
Improved Inlet Manager
Piping Pressure
Loss Calculation
Reuse analysis with Copy/ Paste of PSVs

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AspenTech Relief Sizing Solutions

Aspen Flare System Analyzer

Relief Valve in Aspen Relief Valve in

HYSYS Dynamics Aspen Plus Dynamics

BLOWDOWN™ Analysis PRD Rating Utility

Relief Sizing (in Safety Analysis Environment)

Aspen HYSYS® Aspen Plus®

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Pressure Relief Device Sizing in Aspen HYSYS & Aspen Plus
 Insert PRDs on to streams

 Overpressure protection
scenarios can be
analyzed to size
each valve

 Industry standard design

code (ASME, API, PD)

 Piping sizes can be

checked

 Necessary documentation
can be completed
automatically
Single environment. Multiple Scenarios. Safer Designs.

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Benefits of Integrated Pressure Relief Sizing
Analyze, size, and document pressure relief devices directly in the simulation – Aspen HYSYS or Aspen Plus

Data Accuracy Standards

Multiple Scenarios Regulatory Reports

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 CASE STUDY: TechnipFMC
Approaching a Supercritical Fire Using Aspen HYSYS

Business Challenge & Objective Results & Benefits

The PSV Sizing Tool within Aspen HYSYS Provides:

Sizing a Pressure Safety Valve (PSV) in – Time savings. Up to 90% reduction in calculation hours.
Supercritical service involving phase change
– Accurately sized PSV’s using the rigorous approach.
during relief.
Results proven across a variety of systems and fluid
services.
Solution Overview – Once the base case has been set-up, it can be re-used
for subsequent systems, thus adding to the time saved!

The PSV Sizing Tool within Aspen HYSYS

(V8.6+) was used.

Ref: Aman Tandon, Sankara Nathan, TechnipFMC, OPTIMIZE2017

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Customer Testimonials

66% reduction in work loads

$2M USD CAPEX savings on a flare revalidation project

20% additional flow could be handled in the flare for expansion projects

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External Fire Scenario
Workshop: External Fire Scenario
Analyze, size and document pressure relief devices directly in the simulation (Aspen HYSYS)

Target Vessel

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External Fire Analysis
Available API 521 calculation methods for relief load calculations:

Available Calculation Methods

Semi-Dynamic
Type of Vessel Unwetted (API) Supercritical Wetted (API)
Flash
Vessel with
X X
Vapor
Vessel with
X X X
Liquid
Vessel with
Supercritical X X
Fluid

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External Fire Analysis (Wetted API Calculation)
 This uses the following API equation for heat input from a fire
to a vessel containing liquids

where Q = 21000 × F × A 0.82

Q is the total heat absorption (input) to the wetted surface,

expressed in Btu/hr
F is an Environmental Factor
A is the wetted surface area in ft2
(Note “21000” changes to “34500” if adequate drainage and
firefighting equipment are not present)

 The relieving flow is calculated from the heat input and a

latent heat value for the liquid in the tank.
Flow = Duty / Latent Heat

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Conclusions

 Calculated the relief load and corresponding orifice

size for a fire event
– Liquid and vapor in the vessel
– Single phase and super-critical vapor in vessel

 Understood worst case scenario, which will become

governing case for future design

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Control Valve Failure
Control Value Failure

 Size for safety, but with CAPEX

in mind

 Inlet feed control valve failure

now considered in new design

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Workshop: Control Valve Failure
 Override the reference stream and select the
stream into the valve

 Assemble the data needed for

the calculation

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Control Valve Failure

This data
corresponds to the
stream into the valve

CV taken should be
copied from the valve

Mol Wt and
compressibility can
be found from
properties of the
stream into the valve

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Multiple Relief Valve Analysis
 Choosing one valve configuration to satisfy all
scenarios can be a difficult process, because
selecting a valve that satisfies the contingency
with the largest required relieving load may
cause the same valve to chatter for the lower-
flowing scenarios

 Rate non-sizing scenarios with multiple valves

to predict chattering for certain scenarios and
better predict required sizes

 Sequence opening of multiple valves

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Documentation and Reports

 The Safety Analysis Environment Documentation

Builder provides access to calculation
summaries, process data and industry-standard
(ISA) mechanical data sheets

 Functionality based on Microsoft Access

– Access must be installed
– Access .mdb files are saved with the .hsc file

 Offers more customization capability over built-in

HYSYS reports

 To avoid multiple files, save your HYSYS case as

a compound file (.hscz)

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Conclusions
 Calculated the relief load and
corresponding orifice size for over
pressure event

 Understood routine case scenario

– for single and multiple valves

 Vendor documentation a vendor can use

 Maximized Safety while considering

CAPEX

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Ready to Get Started with Safety Design?
Pressure Relief Analysis Using Aspen Plus
Flare Network Design and Rating (EHY2511)
(EAP252) / Using Aspen HYSYS (EHY252)

Learning Outcomes: Learning Outcomes:

 Define overpressure systems in accordance  Identify potential process bottlenecks
with API 250, 251, 2000
 Validate the capacity of the flare network
 Document the full overpressure analysis
 Design single or multiple relief valves

Duration = 1 Day | Level = Intermediate Duration = 2 Days | Level = Basic

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Thank You