Unlock New Levels of Performance and Sustainability with Aspen 11

AspenTech has launched Aspen 11, a major release of its comprehensive suite of process optimization software. This version represents a significant leap forward, focusing on helping energy, chemical, and engineering companies navigate the dual challenge of meeting global demand while achieving sustainability goals. Aspen 11 integrates artificial intelligence, powerful first-principles models, and cloud technology to create a new standard for the Self-Optimizing Plant.

Key Themes & Breakthrough Capabilities in Aspen 11

The suite is built around empowering organizations to make faster, smarter, and more integrated decisions from R&D to operations.

1. AI-Powered Hybrid Modeling

Combine the power of physics-based models with the speed and adaptability of machine learning.

  • Aspen AI Model Builder: This new, automated tool allows users to rapidly build and deploy high-fidelity AI models using plant data. This simplifies the creation of digital twins for complex units where first-principles modeling is challenging.

  • Hybrid Models in Aspen HYSYS & Aspen Plus: Seamlessly embed AI models directly within your rigorous process simulations. This provides a more accurate representation of real-world equipment performance and faster execution times for optimization and forecasting.

2. Accelerated Sustainability & Energy Transition Workflows

Aspen 11 provides specialized tools to design and operate more sustainable processes.

  • Carbon Capture & Utilization (CCUS): Enhanced property methods and templates for modeling amine-based carbon capture, compression, and transportation, reducing the time to design and evaluate CCUS projects.

  • Bio-based & Circular Processes: Expanded model libraries for biofuels, biochemicals, and plastic recycling processes, enabling the rapid scale-up of circular economy projects.

  • Energy & Emission Tracking: Deeper integration with Aspen Mtell and Aspen Process Energy Advisor to directly connect process optimization with real-time energy consumption and predictive emissions monitoring.

3. The Self-Optimizing Plant Vision

Move from periodic optimization to continuous, closed-loop improvement.

  • Aspen DMC3 Builder: Streamlines the development of advanced process control (APC) applications, cutting project time by up to 50% with automated testing and model identification.

  • Aspen GDOT Optimizer: Introduces new, more robust nonlinear constraint handling, allowing for tighter optimization of complex units like reactors and distillation columns, pushing operations closer to their true economic limits.

  • Cloud-Enabled Collaboration: Facilitate seamless teamwork between central engineering and site-based operational experts. Share models, results, and best practices securely across the enterprise.

4. Enhanced Core Simulation & Engineering

The foundation of the suite is more powerful and user-friendly than ever.

  • Aspen HYSYS & Aspen Plus:

    • New Thermodynamics Frameworks: Improved accuracy for challenging systems, including electrolytes and polymers.

    • Modernized User Interface: A streamlined, intuitive UI reduces the learning curve for new engineers and boosts productivity for experts.

    • Dynamic Modeling Advances: Faster solution times and enhanced capabilities for building pressure-flow driven dynamic models for safety and operability studies.

  • Aspen Capital Cost Estimator: Improved project screening and benchmarking capabilities for more accurate early-stage capital cost estimates.

5. End-to-End Digital Thread

Connect data and models across the entire asset lifecycle.

  • From conceptual design in Aspen Plus to detailed engineering in Aspen HYSYS.

  • Through control strategy design with Aspen DMC3 and operational optimization with Aspen PIMS-AO.

  • To performance monitoring and predictive maintenance with Aspen Mtell.