Promoting Open Standards for

Process Simulation and Modeling

AspenTech & CAPE-OPEN

March 2004

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 Outline

AspenTech History with CAPE-OPEN and Global CAPE-OPEN (GCO)

AspenTech and CAPE-OPEN Laboratory Networks (CO-LaN)

AES CAPE-OPEN Interfaces Available Today

Promoting Open Standards

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 History Overview

CAPE-OPEN: Jan-1997 to Jun-1999

• Enable process simulation interoperability
• Promote open industry standards
• EU funded

Global-CAPE-OPEN (GCO): Jul-1999 to Dec-2001

• As above, plus
• World-wide emphasis, but in practice a strong EU focus (due to funding)

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 AspenTech’s Contribution to Original CAPE-OPEN

Focused energies on pragmatic deliverables

Major accomplishments
• Unit Operation & Thermodynamic specification drafts
• Escape 1999 - Aspen Plus and HYSYS Interoperability Demo
– Aspen Properties working in HYSYS
– HYSYS thermo working in Aspen Plus
– Simplified splitter model created by AspenTech working in HYSYS

• Delivery of first CAPE-OPEN enabled commercial simulator and Physical

Properties
– Aspen Plus 10.2, Aspen Properties 10.2 (Dec-1999)

• Promotion with Press Release

– “Aspen Technology Delivers CAPE-OPEN Compliant Process Simulation Tools”
(15-Dec-1999)

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 Contributions sustained through Global-CAPE-OPEN

Ongoing clean-up of interface specifications

• Unit Operation interface
• Thermodynamic interface

Continued support of commercial interoperability

• HYSYS 2.4 physical properties in Aspen Plus 11.1
• Aspen Properties in Hyprotech’s DISTIL
• HYSYS 2.4 wizards to easily create CAPE-OPEN compliant thermo and
unit operation components
• Extended CAPE-OPEN definitions to support Unit Operations in Sequential
Modular and Equation Oriented modes in Aspen Plus

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 Global-CAPE-OPEN: Interoperability Task Force

Interoperability tests
• Hot fixes for interface updates in AES 10.2
• Aspen Properties and gPROMS (PSE)
• Aspen Properties/HYSYS and Multiflash (Infochem)

Upgrading software to v0.93 of the standards

• Aspen Plus
• Aspen Properties
• HYSYS CAPE-OPEN Kit

Specification revisions
• Unit Operations
• v1.0 of Thermodynamics specification

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 Global-CAPE-OPEN: Methods & Tools Support

Wizards to easily create components

• CAPE-OPEN sequential modular Unit Operation models
• CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamic Property Package

Contribution to common interfaces specifications

• Error Handling
• Parameters
• Collections
• COM Architecture
• Identification
• Cape Open Simulator Executive (COSE) interfaces
• Utilities

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 Global-CAPE-OPEN: Physical Properties

Petroleum Fractions draft

• Review of draft specification

Electrolytes & Reactions draft

• Prototype for Reactions
• Contribution of combined draft specification

Physical Property Database interface draft

• Review of draft specification

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 Global-CAPE-OPEN: Numerics

Helped resolve the discrepancy between the CAPE-OPEN

specifications from Imperial College & AtoFina

Reviewed draft specifications for

• MINLP
• Distributed Parameter Systems (PDEs)
• Parameter Estimation & Data Reconciliation

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 Global-CAPE-OPEN: Fluent Interoperability

Extensions to CAPE-OPEN specifications allowing Fluent to operate in

Aspen Plus (Prototype)

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 Outline

AspenTech History with CAPE-OPEN and Global CAPE-OPEN (GCO)

AspenTech and CAPE-OPEN Laboratory Networks (CO-LaN)

AES CAPE-OPEN Interfaces Available Today

Promoting Open Standards

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 CO-LaN Organization and Objectives

Objectives today
• Promote CAPE-OPEN standards
• Facilitate Training
• Organize special interest groups
• Lifecycle maintenance and improvements of CAPE-OPEN specifications
• Organize and finance independent interoperability testing

AspenTech became an associate member in May 2003

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 Outline

AspenTech History with CAPE-OPEN and Global CAPE-OPEN (GCO)

AspenTech and CAPE-OPEN Laboratory Networks (CO-LaN)

AES CAPE-OPEN Interfaces Available Today

Promoting Open Standards

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 AES 11.1
v0.93 CAPE-OPEN Interfaces Support
Aspen Plus
• CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation Socket – sequential modular
• CAPE-OPEN extension Unit Operation Socket – equation oriented
• CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamics Socket

Aspen Properties
• CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamics Socket
• CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamics Plug
• Standard chemical component mixtures are supported
• Electrolytes, petroleum assays, solids are excluded

Wizard to create CAPE-OPEN compliant Unit Operations

• Downloadable from http://www.aspentech.com
• Downloadable from www.CO-LaN.org
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 AES 11.1 Service Pack 1 (Jun-2002)
v0.93 Unit Operations Interfaces Improvements
Improved ease of use
• CAPE-OPEN error handling is supported for CAPE-OPEN Unit Operations

Defects fixed
• The ICapeThermoMaterialObject methods are fixed
• The GetUniversalConstant method now returns the E_NOTIMPL error code

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 AES 11.1 Service Pack 1 (Jun-2002)
v0.93 Thermodynamics Improvements
Improved ease of use
• Property Packages can be exported and saved to any directory (rather
than a fixed directory in the Aspen Plus/Aspen Properties product tree)
• CAPE-OPEN Component identification data for an exported Property
Package
• Viewing of available comps and properties before importing a Property
Package
• Coexistence of CAPE-OPEN components in AES 11.1 and later (e.g. 12.1)

Defects fixed
• Proper matching of components when importing a Property Package by
using the CAS numbers
• Correct format for the GetComponentConstant method to return data

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 HYSYS CAPE-OPEN Kit
v0.93 Units and Thermodynamics
Unit Sockets for HYSYS 2.2 (or later)
• Enhancements: Integration of CAPE-OPEN Public parameters into HYSYS
logical operations, error reporting, new physical properties,...

Thermo Sockets for HYSYS 2.2 (or later)

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 AES 12.1
v1.0 CAPE-OPEN Interfaces Support
•Scope as per AES 11.1, with the following improvements:
• Upgrade to v1.0 of the specifications
– v0.93 is kept for upwards compatibility
• Addition of Reaction Interface Socket within CAPE-OPEN Unit Operations
– Used, for example, by Fluent interface
• Implementation of “Public Variables”
– Allows parameter(s) of a CAPE-OPEN model to be manipulated from Aspen
Plus or used in Aspen Plus as part of a specification
• Significant improvements in performance:
– 15 times faster when using an AspenTech Package in a third-party application

•Agreement with Fluent Inc to market Fluent software for use in Aspen
Plus and HYSYS

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 Aspen Plus 12.1 Service Pack 5
v1.0 CAPE-OPEN Interfaces Support
• Software fixes to support:
• Interoperability with gPROMS from PSE Ltd.
• Interoperability with CHEMSEP distillation models from Clarkson University
• Interoperability with Short-cut distillation models from AIXCape.org
• Support for property calculations involving Electrolytes

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 HYSYS/COMThermo CAPE-OPEN support

• Kit 1.6 – CAPE-OPEN v0.93

• CAPE-OPEN Unit Operation Socket for HYSYS 2.2 or later
• HYSYS Logical operations (such as Adjust or Set) are now able to operate
with CAPE-OPEN public parameters of type Real or Real Array.
• CAPE-OPEN Thermodynamics Socket for any COMThermo product
(HYSYS 3.0 or Distil 6.0)
• Supports CAPE-OPEN property package equilibrium Calculations for
efficiency.
• COMThermo socket may be applied to HYSYS 3.0, HYSYS.Concept, and
any COMThermo enabled simulator.

•Kit 2.0 – CAPE-OPEN v1.0

• Due April 2004
• Already tested by Clients (e.g BP) and vendors (e.g FLUENT)

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 Outline

AspenTech History with CAPE-OPEN and Global CAPE-OPEN (GCO)

AspenTech and CAPE-OPEN Laboratory Networks (CO-LaN)

AES CAPE-OPEN Interfaces Available Today

Promoting Open Standards

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 Standards Are A Key Part Of AES Strategy

Aspen Engineering Suite

Operations/
Finance/ Conceptual Process Detailed Construction/
Maintenance/
Planning/R&D Design Engineering Engineering Start-up
Asset Mgt

AspenTech’s Objectives:
•Accelerate the delivery of new capabilities
•Provide a user friendly AES across Process Industries and
Asset Lifecycle Management
•Promote Open Standards
•Leverage and protect Your investments

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 AspenTech Is Delivering Today

Aspen Plus and HYSYS (Sockets)

• Thermo
• Unit Operations

Aspen Properties (Socket and Plug)

COMThermo (Socket and Plug)

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 AspenTech Is Publishing Interfaces

AspenTech publishes AES product interfaces on www.aspentech.com

for
• Customers, partners, third-party vendors to integrate proprietary
knowledge
• Partners and third-party vendors to provide technology components to be
used in AES

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 AspenTech Is Cooperating With CO-LaN

•Invested 6 man-months in FY03 in cooperation with CO-LaN

•Joined CO-Lan as an associate Member in May 2003

•Active in THERMO and Interoperability SIGS

• Examples:
– Extensions to support solids and completion of v1.1 thermo specification
– Contributed implementation lessons for 2003 interoperability SIG report.

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 Summary

AspenTech and heritage Hyprotech have

• Played key roles in the CAPE-OPEN successes
• Made commercial interoperability a reality

AspenTech is Promoting Open Standards

• Delivering
• Publishing
• Improving

AES CAPE-OPEN Interfaces Are Available Today

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 Thank You

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