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Aspen Plus ®

Study Guide for Aspen Academic User Certification

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Learn. Apply. Succeed.

Prove Your Credibility

The certification is a must-have for any academic user new to Aspen


Plus who wants to have the knowledge and tools needed to solve
business problems. Passing this exam will demonstrate your skills in
building process simulations including defining the properties
environment, creating flowsheets with unit operations, and utilizing
available tools for analysis and reporting.

Practice

AspenTech training is highly recommended though not required.


This guide contains 100% coverage of all objectives required for the
certification exam.

Get Certified

After passing the exam you will receive an email to post your certificate
and digital badge on social media, which is a cross-industry recognition
of technical skills you may share on LinkedIn, as well as in your email
signature. View the instructions on how to post your credentials on
LinkedIn profile

Exam Scope for Aspen Plus

□ Properties Environment
□ Simulation Environment
□ Reporting
□ Troubleshooting

Register for Academic certification

Go to AspenTech University to register for AspenTech Training

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Scope Competency Objective for Aspen Plus


Select a startup template to begin a new simulation
Create a component list and identify the different component databases available
Explore Properties Identify issues involved in the choice of a property method and define a property
Environment method
Explain the need for Henry’s components
Summarize the different types of physical property data
Recognize the default unit sets and Customize unit sets
Configure and customize flowsheet user preferences, options, and default settings
Explain when to use the SSplit block in a flowsheet
Identify the key differences in the three separator blocks Flash2, Flash3 and
Decanter
List which unit operation blocks can be used to specify how the components split to
the outlet streams
Configure a component splitter to separate component steams based on split
fractions specified
Identify the heat exchanger model used to model convective or radiant heat
transfer across a surface
Select the heat exchanger model that can be integrated with Aspen Exchanger
Design and Rating (EDR) tools
List the column unit operations that incorporate shortcut methods for Vapor/Liquid
Explore Simulation calculations
Environment Identify which unit operation block is used for most distillation column models
Determine parameters required to solve a column Identify different types of
column specifications available in RadFrac
Identify different types of column specifications available in RadFrac
List the types of rigorous vapor-liquid fractionation operations that RadFrac can
simulate
Build different types of columns using RadFrac and manipulate the column
specifications to meet the process objective
Describe the difference between On-Stage and Above-Stage
List the classes of reactor unit operations available in Aspen Plus
Describe the characteristics of balanced based reactor models
Identify which reactor models allow both equilibrium and kinetic based reactions
Identify the option in RGibbs to insure both vapor and liquid phases are considered
List situations where pressure changer blocks need to be included in a flowsheet
Explain the difference between design and rating specifications for pump and
compressor

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Identify the main difference between the pipe and pipeline unit operation
List the options to write custom unit operation models

List steps to create a new sensitivity


Develop a design specification to get desired result and List the approaches to view
Explore Simulation design specification results
Environment Explain the use of parameters and local parameters
Identify import variables and export variables
Customize stream summary tables and save as new templates
Explain how to add additional physical properties to the stream summary
Explain how to change global stream data displayed decimal digits
Identify automatically generated convergence blocks
Analyze error and warning messages and Recognize simulation sequence
Explain the concept of error/tolerance
Troubleshooting
Configure the default tear convergence settings to increase maximum number of
iterations
Use Check Status to check detailed information about errors or warning
Report control panel messages in History file

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