Solving Method in Hysys

1. HYSIM inside out solver: General purpose method which is used for most
general problems.
2. Modified HYSIM inside-out solver: General purpose method which allows
mixer, tee and heat exchanger inside column sub-flowsheet.
3. Newton-Raphson inside-out solver: General purpose method which
allows liquid-phase kinetic reactions inside the column sub-flowsheet.
4. Sparse continuation solver: It supports two liquid phases on the tray and
its main use is for solving highly non-ideal chemical system and reactive
distillation.
5. Simultaneous correction solver: It can be used for chemical system and
reactive distillation also.
6. OLI solver: Only used to calculate column unit operation in electrolyte
system.

Damping factor in column:

1. Fixed damping: If you select the fixed damping button you can specify the
damping factor. Damping factor is used to control the step size in the outer
loop when updating the simple thermodynamic models in inner loop. For the
vast majority of hydrocarbon oriented towers, the default value of 1 is
appropriate which permit a full adjustment step. But in special cases where
we analyze that equilibrium error is oscillating and column is not able to
converge than we can try changing the damping factor ie by reducing the
damping factor between 03-0.9. Alternatively we can enable adaptive
damping, allowing Hysys to automatically adjust this factor.

Type of column operation Damping factor

All hydrocarbon column including demethanizer to 1

debutanizer and crude distillation column
Non-hydrocarbon column including air separation and 1
nitrogen rejection
Amine absorber 1

Amine regenerator, TEG strippers, sour water stripper 0.25-0.50

Highly non-ideal column without azeotrope 0.20-0.50

Highly non-ideal column with azeotrope 0.50-(-1)

The azeotropic box on the parameters page of the column should be selected
for azeotropic column to converge.
As mentioned above an azeotropic column requires the azeotrope checkbox to
be enabled. There are two ways to indicate to Hysys that you are simulating an
azeotropic column.

1. Enter a negative damping factor, and Hysys automatically selects the

Azeotropic checkbox.