The latest addition to Xchanger Suite 5.0 is the Xspe 5.0 component for rating and simulating spiral heat exchangers. The suite is also made more functional for designing, rating and simulating heat exchangers with the added support of the Cape-Open Thermodynamic Interface Version 1.0. —an international standard for interfacing physical property and unit operation modules to compliant process simulators, such as HYSYS and Aspen Plus. The suite’s components for various types of heat exchangers — e.g., shell-and-tube (Xist) plate-and-frame (Xphe), and air-cooled (Xace) exchangers, as well as fired heaters, economizers and ancillary software for tube-vibration analysis — work together, incorporating native interfaces with process simulators to create one model.
Xchanger Suite 5.0
HTRI (Heat Transfer Research, Inc.)