WHATIS DESIGN??? A DESIGN IS PLAN FOR Manufacturing an artifact E A refrigerator or a rug Building the mean of manufacture E Afactory or a chemical plant Building a structure E A bridge or a baseball stadium Implementing an organization A hospital emergency room E A air transportation system
HEAT EXCHANGER DESIGN GOALS: Role of heat exchangers in chemical processing Basic concepts and terminology Types of heat exchangers Design methodology Sizing Design Rating
WHAT IS ASPEN? A computer program for steady-state process simulation (a.k. process Flowsheeting) Developed for the simulation of Chemical Petrochemical Processes Coal-based Processes Petroleum Refining Polymer Processes One of many commercially available flowsheeting programs such as PROII (Simulation Sciences) HYSIM (Hyprotech) ChemCad(Chemstation)