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Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical
(formerly Aspen Teams®)
Complete mechanical design or rating of shell & tube heat exchangers and basic pressure vessels.
When used in design mode, Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical optimizes the thicknesses of the majority of exchanger components, including flanges, tubesheets, expansion joints, supports, cylinder thicknesses, and nozzle reinforcement. In rating mode, Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical determines if the component thickness for an existing exchanger are adequate for a given set of design temperatures and pressures. Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical is a core element of AspenTech’s aspenONE™ Process Engineering applications.
Features
- TEMA Types: Incorporates all TEMA exchanger types.
- Codes Supported: ASME Section VIII, Div. 1, EN 13445, CODAP, and AD-Merkblatter.
- Supplemental Calculations: Zick stress analysis, minimum design metal temperatures, simultaneous internal/external pressure design, nozzle loads per WRC 107 or Heat Exchanger Institute, maximum allowable working pressures, material cladding, and wind & seismic loads.
- Supporting Standards: ASTM, DIN, AFNOR, TEMA Classes B, C, & R.
- Material Databases: ASME, DIN, CODAP, EN, and JIS.
- Costing Databases: Company operating standards, material standards, welding standards, labor efficiencies, material costs.
- Expansion Joints: Flanged only, flanged and flued, and various types of bellows.
- Graphics: Fully dimensioned setting plan, tubesheet layout, and detailed component drawings.
- Thermal and Mechanical Integration: Bi-directional integration with Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger allows for efficient optimization to thermal and mechanical constraints.
Benefits
- Improved Design: Provides optimized equipment designs for a given set of design conditions, resulting in typical savings of 10% or more on the equipment cost per heat exchanger.
- Improved Mechanical Design Quality: Material properties from Aspen Shell & Tube Mechanical extensive data banks—together with accurate thermal data from Aspen Shell & Tube Exchanger—results in accurate stress calculations conforming to internationally accepted code standards and safety practices.
- Increased Engineering Efficiency: Enables increased emphasis on fast-track, front-end engineering through fully integrated tools for process design, exchanger thermal sizing, exchanger mechanical design, cost estimation, and drawings production, which are pre-requisite for cost effective projects.
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