Application examples

This example shows a brazed plate-fin heat exchanger used in a process of LPG recovery from a natural gas. This heat exchanger is modeled using ProSec, ProSim’s CAPE-OPEN compliant unit operation dedicated to the simulation of brazed plate-fin heat exchangers. ProSec allows taking into account the effect of the stacking and of the pressure drop on the enthalpy curves.

This example shows brazed plate-fin heat exchanger with two fluids. There is a side stream on the hot stream and an external recirculation on the cold stream. This heat exchanger is modeled using ProSec, ProSim’s CAPE-OPEN compliant unit operation dedicated to the simulation of brazed plate-fin heat exchangers. ProSec can take into account the effect of the stacking and of the pressure drop on the enthalpy curves. In this example, the ProSec unit operation runs inside the ProSimPlus environment, i.e., within the ProSimPlus simulation software where the thermodynamic and physico-chemical data needed are automatically calculated using Simulis Thermodynamics, the thermodynamic calculation server of ProSimPlus.

This example shows a cross-flow plate-fin heat exchanger used in a gas-gas application. This heat exchanger is modeled using ProSec, ProSim’s CAPE-OPEN compliant unit operation dedicated to the simulation of plate-fin heat exchangers. Regarding the thermodynamic and physico-chemical data needed, they are automatically calculated using the thermodynamic calculation server of the process simulation software.

This example deals with a hydrogen liquefaction heat exchanger-reactor with simultaneous consideration of the ortho-para hydrogen conversion reaction. Since the formalism of this reaction is not available in CO-ProSec Reaction, it has been described via an external DLL. Tags are used to display results on the simulation scheme. Some of these tags involve the use of the advanced mode.