CHEMCAD Process Simulation for Equipment Manufacturers
Chemstations and Nor-Par Why CHEMCAD?
Chemstations Inc based in Houston The CHEMCAD Suite of process
TX, USA are the owners and makers simulation software, present in the market
since 1984 is nowadays one of the most
of the CHEMCAD Suite of process
modern and easy to use programs,
simulation software. serving oil & gas, oil refining,
petrochemicals, organic chemicals,
Oslo-based Nor-Par a.s is exclusive inorganic chemicals, power, pulp & paper
distributor of CHEMCAD Suite in as well as specialty chemicals markets,
Scandinavia, East Europe and even extending to cosmetic, alcohol, Full model of co-generation cycle in
brewing and food industries. CHEMCAD (gas turbine/steam turbine)
Russia. Nor-Par a.s and its daughter
company Nor-Par Online A/S also Openness
The range of equipment served is very
provide own software and solutions
broad: CHEMCAD and the completely integrated
to fill the gap between standard
modules CC-THERM, CC-DYNAMICS,
process simulation software and • Packed and tray distillation and CC-BATCH, CC-SAFETY-NET and CC-
unique needs of the market as well absorption columns POLYMER form together powerful
as unique needs from a specific • Batch distillation columns Windows program, open to the world of
client. • Separators the manufacturing and engineering with
Do you need CHEMCAD? • Compressors its interfaces via CAPE-OPEN, OLE,
• Turbines OPC, API (VB/C++) and Excel as well as
Your company is an equipment • Pumps interfaces to mechanical heat
manufacturer. As long as your equipment • Heat exchangers: shell & tube, plate exchanger software or life-cycle project
processes fluids and solids, you need this & frame, double pipe, air coolers, management tools such as COMOS and
information for proper design or selection square finned-tube coolers AXSYS.
of the right equipment: • Combustion equipment
• Pressure vessels Easy to use
• Physical properties of pure • Storage vessels CHEMCAD, CC-THERM and CC-
components or mixtures taking part • Fired heaters DYNAMICS are the easiest to use
in the process • Boilers process calculation programs found in the
• Thermal state of media taking part in • Vessel reactors market. You are able to solve your first
the process • Tubular reactors design or optimization problem in
• Different property charts • Ejectors minutes: Draw a sketch (flowsheet),
• Detailed mass and heat balance • Extractors select components, let the program help
around your equipment • Adsorbers you selecting the right thermodynamic
• Optimum operating parameters for • Membrane separators
methods, enter your feed streams, define
your equipment the equipment specifications, calculate,
• Solid handling equipment such as
• Knowledge on how other equipment analyze the results and make reports and
o Filters of different type
taking part in your process will affect Process Flow Diagrams.
o Centrifuges
the performance of your equipment o Cyclones
• Feasibility of your equipment Value for money
o Hydrocyclones
performance in given process: Will o Crystallizers Unlike other process simulation
your equipment perform or should o Dryers programs, CHEMCAD, CC-THERM and
you find some alternative solution o Sieves CC-DYNAMICS have a big number of
that you could sell as well? o Electro-filters valuable features included as a standard
• Operating limits of your equipment o Crushers/grinders and you do not need to pay any extra for
• Control parameters to make the o Solid washers it. For example, there is crude oil
operation of your equipment • Piping including transportation database, electrolytes, amine
manageable in the plant pipelines sweetening, glycol dehydration, hydrate
• Safety aspects of the performance • Control valves prediction, pressure relief device
of your equipment • Orifices calculation (DIERS), mass transfer in
• Technical data sheets • Industrial controllers distillation, environmental analysis
• Environmental considerations • Pressure Relief Valves and Rupture (WAR), solid handling, advanced pipeline
• Possibility to transfer the data to Disks simulation, piping network analysis as
other programs for mechanical well as hundreds of other expensive
design of your equipment The features related to thermal design of features that you get included in the
• Equipment costing heat exchangers require the additional license.
integrated module of CC-THERM. If you
If you believe that you need any of the work with any batch, semi-batch or The software is available in several
functionality as described above, you unsteady process (such as storage or licensing forms from unlimited network
should take your interest in CHEMCAD intermediate tanks, heating or cooling in license to limited license where you only
and complementing modules CC-THERM vessels), you may benefit from additional pay for what you really use.
and CC-DYNAMICS to the benefit of your integrated module CC-DYNAMICS.
company. We may serve you with
mechanical design software, too.
Physical property calculations of your company. CC-THERM provides
Your equipment can be entangled inside full set of data sheets for heat exchangers
All modules of CHEMCAD, that is, multiple level recycle loops that are including TEMA sheet.
CHEMCAD-STEADY STATE, CC- solved automatically. Full pressure
THERM, CC-DYNAMICS and the profile around your system is calculated. Environmental issues
included as an extra CC-SAFETY NET
include as common features: For dynamic simulation, CC- CHEMCAD and CC-DYNAMICS calculate
DYNAMICS provides stable and powerful the amount and composition of waste
• The DIPPR databank with solver allowing extremely quick finding products. The WAR technology from
complete physical property data of the solution of an unsteady problem. The Environmental Protection Agency of the
over 2000 components transition from steady state to dynamic United States is available in the program
• You can add your own simulation is seamless and easy. as standard for reporting of environmental
components including solid fuels. impacts of the waste from the plant.
The tool to determine the properties Optimum operating parameters for
of solid fuels based on elemental your equipment Data transfer
analysis is available.
CHEMCAD has Sensitivity Analysis and
• Crude oil database with 250 brands CHEMCAD, CC-THERM and CC-
Optimizer as standard features, allowing
of oils included as standard DYNAMICS are completely open
you to find optimum operating parameter
• Solid components available as software, capable to “talk” with other
set for your equipment in minutes.
standard feature software via CAPE-OPEN, OLE, OPC,
• Electrolyte package as standard Excel. CC-THERM has special interface
Interaction with other equipment to MT-EXCH and MT-LAYOUT, which
feature
• Full thermodynamics/physical Your equipment piece is not alone in the are premium mechanical design
calculation of 60 mixture properties process unit or a plant. Check how programs, also available from Nor-Par.
• Equilibrium databank of equipment surrounding your own unit will CHEMCAD has own interface with
DECHEMA as standard feature affect the performance of your delivery. SULPAK, the Sulzer’s packing selection
• Steam table as standard feature Sometimes you could avoid expensive program for distillation and absorption
• Desulphurization by amine guarantee penalties knowing beforehand columns.
absorption (amine model, what could happen to your equipment in
electrolytes) or by adsorption, also true operating environment. Equipment costing
by the latest technologies (e.g.
chelates) Feasibility studies CHEMCAD has the Equipment Costing
• Dehydration by glycols feature available as standard. Investment
• Prediction and inhibiting of hydrate The request from the customer for costs are calculated by the Chemical
formation specific equipment might not be feasible. Engineering methodology and are open,
Check I you really could make and deliver so you can put in your own costing
operable equipment or find alternative algorithms. Manufacturing Cost
Determining the thermal state of
way of serving the client with a better calculations are also available in the
process streams program.
solution.
For any process stream, any module of
the CHEMCAD Suite automatically Operating limits Distillation and absorption: tray
calculates its thermal state and all and packed columns
physical properties. You can determine Find out the operating limits of your
the vapor or liquid fraction in a two-phase equipment and see if it would really work CHEMCAD and CC-DYNAMICS allows
stream, calculate the bubble point or dew under specifications from the customer. rigorous calculation of any type of
point. distillation, stripping or absorption
Controlling your equipment processes in tray or packed columns.
Producing property charts Mass transfer model is available as
Together with your automation personnel, standard feature for the most precise
Variety of charts is available as standard check in CC-DYNAMICS how controllable calculation of such processes. There is
feature: your equipment will be in the proposed no problem with extractive, azeotropic or
producing scheme. CC-DYNAMICS can reactive distillation/absorption. Systems
• Phase envelopes simulate the performance of Control with electrolytes are calculated easily.
• TPXY and Distillation Curves Systems together with the process
charts equipment. CHEMCAD has tray and packing sizing
• Binodal Plot (for extraction) and column hydraulics calculation.
• Residue Curve Map Process safety Libraries of industrial packings are
• Heat Curves available as standard feature.
• Composite Heat Curves The policy of your company is to deliver
Batch and semi-batch columns are
• Stream Property charts safe solutions. Do safety studies in CC-
calculated in CC-DYNAMICS, or with
• Pipe Profiles DYNAMICS. Check the consequences of
extra module CC-BATCH.
• Tower Profiles break-down of your and the surrounding
• Plug Reactor Profile equipment. Select pressure relief
devices properly (CHEMCAD and CC- Separators, pressure vessels,
• Column, vessel, stream and
equipment histories for Dynamics DYNAMICS have the DIERS Technology storage vessels
for safety devices available as standard
feature). Design interlocks and other CHEMCAD/CC-DYNAMICS can simulate
All the charts have automatic export to
control safety features. Use our Training any type of vessel for process conditions.
Microsoft Excel.
Simulator running on a detailed dynamic Pressure vessel design tool is available.
model to help the operators be trained
Detailed heat and mass balance Pressure vessels and atmospheric tanks
properly.
CHEMCAD and CC-DYNAMICS allow can be simulated for safety with Pressure
you making detailed and accurate heat Technical data sheets Relief Valves and Rupture Disks
and mass balance for your equipment or according to API 520/521, API 2000,
process. CC-THERM does detailed mass CHEMCAD produces data sheets in OSHA 1910 106, NFPA-30 for operating
and heat balance not only around the Excel format for each equipment piece and fire conditions.
heat exchanger but also internally, by that you work on. The data sheets can be
zone analysis. made in your own language and in format
Any type of tank requiring heating or add your own reactors to the library, algorithm and to be run under the control
cooling with jackets or coils can be test their performance and give the client of CC-DYNAMICS.
rigorously calculated in CC-DYNAMICS. the right solution and advice.
Libraries of Pfaulder reactors are
standard in the program. You can add Tubular reactors can be simulated in Pressure Relief devices
your own reactor types. CHEMCAD. There is no problem to
calculate processes occurring in long Performance of Pressure Relief Valves
Compressors, turbines, pumps, tubes or coils of tubular reactors, and and Rupture Disks according to API
ejectors detailed and accurate solution is 520/521, API 2000, OSHA 1910 106,
obtained. NFPA-30 for operating and fire conditions
CHEMCAD/CC-DYNAMICS include can be calculated both in steady state
rigorous models of performance for Extractors and dynamics. DIERS (Design Institute
compressors, turbines and pumps. for Emergency Relief Systems)
CHEMCAD has the Extractor model for technology is built in CHEMCAD and CC-
You can enter your own performance liquid/liquid extraction process.
curves and calculate the action of your DYNAMICS.
equipment in real operating environment. Solid/liquid leaching is possible to
This helps selecting the right model of calculate with the Crystallizer model or More questions?
your equipment for the customer’s using Electrolytes.
expectations. • Please first refer to brochures for
CHEMCAD, CC-SAFETY NET (this
Ejectors can be easily simulated. Adsorption, membrane separation program is included in CHEMCAD),
Adsorption modeling is possible in CC- CC-THERM, CC-DYNAMICS, CC-
Heat exchangers DYNAMICS. BATCH and CC-POLYMER.
• Ask your dedicated representative of
CC-THERM allows design, rating and Membrane Technology unit to run under Nor-Par for organizing a Web demo
fouling rating of shell & tube, plate & the control of CHEMCAD has been made (a presentation over Internet) to
frame, double pipe, air cooled and square by Nor-Par and is available to CHEMCAD answer more detailed questions.
finned-tube heat exchangers. All process clients at separate price.
data come transparently from CHEMCAD
or CC-DYNAMICS simulation. The Solid-fluid separation, The exclusive distributor in
calculation in CC-THERM gives you full crystallization and solids handling Scandinavia, The Russian
thermal design or rating information,
Federation and East Europe
according to TEMA, ASME, DIN, B.S. or
custom standard. Vibration analysis is CHEMCAD has 13 different types of unit Nor-Par a.s
available. Construction material databank operations for solid-fluid separation,
is available as standard. crystallization/dissolution as well as for Nordstrandveien 76, 1164 Oslo, Norway
solids handling. You can also do WWW: www.norpar.com
The major feature is true heat crystallization of inorganic material using e-mail:
[email protected]exchanger simulation in the Electrolytes. phone: +47 22 28 69 00
CHEMCAD/CC-DYNAMICS based on the technical questions::+47 21 68 82 49
exchanger’s geometry. The calculations Piping and pipelines
Your local representative of Nor-Par
are done internally in CC-THERM. So you
do not need to assume how give heat CHEMCAD and CC-DYNAMICS have the
exchanger would work. You will know advanced PIPE model:
how you heat exchanger will really
work under given process conditions.
• Single, two-phase and slurry (solid-
liquid) flow
Combustion • Detailed heat transfer model with the
CHEMCAD has all the features needed to environment (air, water, soil, user-
simulate combustion processes. You can defined medium) and multiple
burn gaseous, liquid, solid and mixed insulation layers
phase fuels. The program will calculate • Simulation of extremely long
the demand for oxygen, air or any other pipelines
combustion agent. You can use the • Property profiles over the pipeline
combustion gases for further heat length
recovery in other equipment units, such • Simulation of pipeline networks
as steam generator, boiler or recuperator. • Possibility of simulating any type of
Auto-therm combustion is very easy to piping, including flaring systems
model, which is important in effluent • Piping and pipelines can have any
combustion. Thermal cycles are very number of different fittings, the
easy to model as well. library exists as a standard feature
• Critical and subsonic flow, Joule-
Fired heaters, boilers Thompson effect, choked flow.
CHEMCAD/CC-DYNAMICS/CC-THERM
have all necessary tools to rigorously
model fired heaters, including the
Control Valves and Orifices
convection and radiation zones, utility and
process sides.
CHEMCAD and CC-DYNAMICS include
Boiler design is very easy and you can facilities to calculate Control Valves and
build entire thermal cycles. Instrument Orifices.
Reactors Industrial controllers
CC-DYNAMICS has all necessary tools CC-DYNAMICS includes standard PID
for design of vessel reactors. Libray of controller model. Nor-Par can write for the
Pfaulder reactors is available as a clients a model of any industrial
standard in CC-DYNAMICS. You can controller according to specified
