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UniSim Design Suite

Release Bulletin
Honeywell unveiled UniSim Design Suite R450, the latest major release of Honeywells process
simulation technology. UniSim Design Suite is part of Honeywells family of simulation software
and engineering solutions for process simulation, design, analysis, performance monitoring,
optimization and business planning for the oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, chemical and
power industries.

Included in UniSim Design Suite R450 are several products for

process/equipment design and simulation, conceptual design of heat
exchanger networks using pinch technology, as well as in-depth
thermodynamic studies.

Oil & Gas process modelled with UniSim Dynamics.

UniSim Design Suite provides an integrated steady-

state and dynamics environment. Steady-state models
built for feasibility studies, can be re-used and
enhanced for:

detailed engineering

HAZOP and safety system design studies

control & safety system check-out

operating procedure development

operator training

other advanced application development

UniSim Design Suite R450 List of Product Options by Category.
process debottlenecking.

FEATURES & BENEFITS

Easy-to-Use Tool Performing Technology Customer-Centric Increasing Efficiency Minimizes CAPEX

Same platform for UniSim Design Suite Leveraging in-house Through elimination of Through design
steady-state and technology is: process, control and manual data entry and optimization with:
dynamic simulation. software development automation of:
Robust. Built-in optimizers.
expertise, we bring to
Customizable process Engineering workflow
Scalable. market features: Incorporated industry
variable trends. tools between products.
standards.
Stable. Developed with users.
Easy access to Scenario automation
Equipment sizing and
controllers through Accurate. For the users. capabilities.
rating calculations.
faceplates. Fast. Adopting best practices Documentation
Heat-Exchanger
Scenario building and A true Life-Cycle & workflows customization and
Network optimization.
automation capabilities. simulation platform. recommended by the generation features.
users. Accuracy of prediction.
Short-cut key usage.
The new features and enhancements available in New & Enhanced Unit Operations There is significant
this major release are the result of on-going input The Pump unit operation has been enhanced to emphasis on Safety
from, and collaboration with UniSim Design users, support the evolving technology for multiphase System Design Tools
coupled with Honeywells commitment to with UniSim Design
pressure boosting. Multi-phase pumps (MPPs) are
Suite R450. UniSim
simulation solutions. Summarized in this document particularly important for flow-assurance for sub- Design, UniSim
are some of the key new UniSim Design Suite sea and deep-water operations. The user can Dynamics, UniSim
features and enhancements in this release. impose the manufacturer curves in terms of DP vs Flare, UniSim Blowdown
Total Flow or Power vs Total Flow for different Customize and UniSim
Safety System Design Tools Gas Volumetric Fractions (GVFs). The MPP unit
PRS are also offered
With UniSim Design Suite R450, Honeywell is together, as a Safety
operation is supported in both steady-state and System Design Bundle.
commercializing and making available to the wider dynamics.
process design user community an internal UOP
tool, called UniSim PRS. This is a standalone tool
for sizing and rating PSVs, BDs and surrounding
pipes which utilizes UniSim Thermo. UniSim PRS
has been used over the past five years to validate
the relief devices in all UOP plant assets.

The UniSim Blowdown Customize option has

been further enhanced. In addition to the
flowsheeting and event scheduling capabilities; the
2D heat loss models for vessels and vessel heads;
and the implementation of the API 521 6th edition Typical Multi-Phase Pump Curves in UniSim Design

fire method, introduced with UniSim Design R442

in November 2015, the new features now The Amines Fitter and Amines unit operation is
introduced include: introduced with UniSim Design Suite R450. These
were developed to allow the user to make use of
Control valve and PSV modelling amines performance data obtained from external
Multiple feeds into pressure vessel sources (specialist packages or plant data) within
Settle-out facility the UniSim Design flowsheet. The Amine fitter
Stress calculations (grey-box model) fits amine operational data for
Choke flow calculations use by the amine model unit operation. The Amine
Beggs-Brill calculation implementation model unit operation is a new object in the UniSim
Solver and thermo enhancements Design flowsheet environment to represent the
amine contactor and regenerator flowsheet.

The new Hydraulic Turbine unit operation

models a Kaplan hydraulic turbine. The user can
impose the Hill performance curves in terms of
head vs. flow and efficiency vs. flow. This
development is important for modelling low-head,
high capacity hydroelectric power generation
processes.

The Pipe Segment unit operation has been

Blowdown Study Using UniSim Blowdown Customize
enhanced to include the hydrate and ice formation
predictions and the sand erosion velocity
The UniSim Flare product, has been re- calculation. So, it is no longer necessary to
platformed and enhanced. It has new scenario configure separate utilities for these calculations.
automation, data visualization, and reporting
capabilities. In addition, its performance has The Valve unit operation has been enhanced to
greatly improved, with complex cases solving at allow for different actuator opening and closing
least three times faster on the new platform. times. This gives users more flexibility for process

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UniSim Design Suite and compressor control design. Over 100 refining properties are now available in
R450 includes refining UniSim Design. Those can be propagated
properties, assay Thermodynamics Enhancements throughout the flowsheet. They include, but are
importing capabilities It is now possible to import CALSEP PVTSim and not limited to:
and mixing rules, PVTSim Nova data into UniSim Designs PVT
making it easier to
environment, at the click of a button. The PVT RON, MON, RVP, conradson carbon rate,
model refining
processes. Regression Import tool, automatically imports carbon to hydrogen ratio, cetane index,
the PVT data, creates a stream on the flowsheet, refractive index, yield
and attaches a phase envelope to it. The tool Aniline, cloud, freeze, pour, smoke, softening,
automatically maps streams with PR78 and SRK wax congealing and flash points
property packages and allows the manual X-ring UV and IP391 aromatics, Cx
selection for other property packages. This tool asphaltenes, olefins, naphthalenes, naphthenes,
reduces engineering effort and eliminates errors n-paraffins, paraffins, polynaphthenes,
with manual PVT data entry. mercaptans.

A Crude Assay Import Facility allows the user to

import assay databases from Microsoft Excel files
in the new UniSim Crude environment and map
them into components and pseudo-components.
The same components and pseudo-components
can be shared by different assays / blends.

PVT Data Import Using the PVT Regression Import Tool.

For super-critical regions, it is now possible to

handle stream data with more flexibility. The user
can:

Specify where the supercritical region lies or

allow the simulator to calculate it.
Assays imported into UniSim Crude Environment.
Override the calculated supercritical phase as
vapor or liquid for certain properties (i.e. density,
viscosity, thermal conductivity) Blend mixing rules are now available as user
Enable stream level alerts when operating in the properties. Apart from the new pre-configured
supercritical region or when the supercritical mixing rules, it is possible for users to enter
region is overridden. custom mixing rules, leveraging their proprietary
data within the simulation environment.

The UniSim Design Suite R450 thermo socket has

been updated to be CAPE-OPEN 1.1 compliant,
and now also supports the CAPE-OPEN
standards edit and save/persistence features.
This development allows customers to use 3rd
party or in-house developed thermodynamic
properties within UniSim Design, for example to
model specialty chemical processes. In addition
the workflow for adding and configuring the CAPE-
OPEN unit operation and thermo sockets has
Warnings for operation in the super-critical region and for been enhanced to improve usability.
overriding the super-critical envelope.
The link to the DIPPR Database was improved to

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allow for review of imported components and UniSim Design Suite
classification of components into families. R450 offers the widest
portfolio in the market
For the Peng-Robinson property package, both for heat exchanger
the API 9A1.3 and 9A1.5 methods appear now as design, leveraging the
UniSim Heat
water solubility options, for engineering efficiency
Exchangers, as well as
purposes. In addition, the water solubility the HTRI Xchanger
coefficients are exposed and modifiable by the Suite and XSimOp
user. It is now possible to include non- products.
hydrocarbon components. It is also possible to
select which components to include in the water HTRI XSimOp Shell-Tube engine in UniSim Design.
solubility calculations and which to exclude.

Below is a list of the available product bundles:

Flexible treatment for water solubility with PR.

The UniSim Design implementation of the PPR78

Equation of state was previously limited to eight
molecular groups covering alkanes and mono-
aromatics. The model has been expanded to over
thirty groups and these are added to the PPR78
predictive mixing rule. Available bundle options for Heat Exchanger Design.

Heat Exchanger Design Productivity Tools

Honeywell offers the most complete portfolio for It is now possible to generate H&MBs and PFD
heat exchanger design. Since the release of equipment summaries in UniSim Design. There
UniSim Design Suite R443, Honeywell resells the
are two buttons configured in the workbook view to
HTRI Xchanger Suite modules, bundled together
automatically generate the H&MBs and the
with the respective UniSim Heat Exchanger
equipment summaries which can be placed on the
modules. HTRI is the market leader in heat-
flowsheet by showing the respective workbook
exchanger design; they maintain the UniSim Heat
table. The flowsheet and respective tables may be
Exchangers and develop their own software
copied as bitmap files and pasted as required. In
products.
addition the workbook tabs may be printed as
datasheets in .pdf format. This functionality allows
With the UniSim Design Suite R450 release,
for easier generation of PFDs and stream reports.
Honeywell begins to integrate the HTRI XSimOp
modules with UniSim Design. HTRI XSimOp is
now a model available for selection in the UniSim
Design heat exchanger unit operation. This
enables the usage of the new HTRI technology in
simulation. The new engine solves faster than its
embedded Xist and UHX STE technology
predecessors.

H&MB Table View in UniSim Design

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The flowsheet The USE-IT tool is now supported for the There have been enhancements to the Adjust
optimization Windows 10 operating system and both 32- and function. The adjust group uses the previous
enhancements 64-bit versions of Office 2013 and 365. The iteration values to speed up convergence. The
introduced with Unisim object browser now allows accessing deep level direction of the initial step size can be specified by
Design Suite R450, aim
sub-flowsheets. the user.
to increase the speed of
convergence of large
The Case Scenario Manager has an improved In the Adjust-Recycle manager, a new variable
flowsheets and provide
insights on the parallel workflow for Dynamics: it displays the list is included: the Independent SpreadSheet
calculation order. differences between all the specified variables. OldValue Opers. The program detects cells which
Also, it is possible to do a 3-way comparison hold strings with OldValue in their formula. It is
among the Master, Changed and Common possible to change the tolerance for each of these
Ancestor Cases. Cases as big as 50 MB can be listed variables through the Adjust-Recycle
compared in as little as a couple of minutes, to manager.
identify the source of changes and to propagate
changes to the desired case.

Flowsheet Optimization
There have been several enhancements to the
flowsheet optimization functionality of UniSim
Design. These are listed below:

There is a new solver option for the optimizer:

the NOVA solver. This proprietary solver is the
best available solver in the market for online, real-
time optimization purposes. It is well suited for Adjust-Recycle Manager OldValue Variable List.

solving hundreds of thousands of equations with

up to a thousand degrees of freedom, so can be The sparse continuation solver has been
applied to solve problems for processes across all improved with the usage of the Inside-Out column
industries. solver. This feature improves the convergence of
columns.

The I/O solvers were previously formulated for

two phase separation with total aqueous phase
draw if found on any stage. So, the non-aqueous
second liquid phase could not be separated. The
I/O solver can now handle non-aqueous VLLE in
the condenser, removing this separation limitation,
important for refining and chemical applications.

Other Enhancements
The CAPE-OPEN unit operation can now
The NOVA solver available as an Optimizer option. read/write to a spreadsheet unit operation.

The calculation order analysis tool has been There have been improvements in the Tag
enhanced to allow for the display of the calculation Browser feature of the OPC client.
levels in one view. There is also an option to
display the solver calculation order after the
calculations have been completed. This way it is
easier to understand the calculation sequence,
when analyzing simulation results.

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UniSim Design Suite UniSim Design Suite Support Services
Honeywells UniSim Design Suite, is part of the UniSim software family of This product comes with worldwide, premium
online and off-line process design and optimization applications. Giving support services through our Benefits
users the power to determine process workflows, equipment sizing and Guardianship Program (BGP). BGP is designed to
rating requirements, UniSim solutions help you capture and share process help our customers improve and extend the usage
knowledge, improve plant profitability and maximize returns on investments of their applications and the benefits they deliver,
in simulation technology. ultimately maintaining and safeguarding their
advanced applications.
UniSim Design Suite offers:
Honeywell provides a complete portfolio of service
An integrated steady-state and dynamics environment to easily re- offerings to extend the life of your plant and
use, update and transition the process models throughout a project provide a cost-effective path forward to the latest
or plant asset lifecycle. application technology. Honeywell services
A user-friendly interface which helps engineers to easily access include:
and visualize the process information and identify trends.
Built-in industry standards that minimize the need for literature Standard and Customized Training
search when sizing and rating equipment. Consulting
Integration with 3rd party specialty technologies which allow for the Model Building
best technical solution for process simulation. Engineering Studies
Interfacing capabilities with process historians, DCS & safety Custom Thermo/Unit Operations
systems, and other advanced applications that maximize the
benefits for green-field, brown-field and revamp projects.

For More Information

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