Errata Chemical Process Simulation and the Aspen HYSYS v8.

3 Software © 2015

Link Errata Description Date

Page 2-44 Typos in Section F of the HYSYS Simulation of Tutorial 2.3. 01/31/2017

Page 2-88 Replace the Print Screen capture with the Snipping Tool capture. 11/30/2013
Page 2-89 Replace the Print Screen capture with the Snipping Tool capture. 11/30/2013

Page A-4 E-Z Solve Software workaround using the Excel “EZ Setup” Add-In 10/28/2015

HYSYS 8.4 Modifications to the HYSYS v8.3 manual for use with Aspen HYSYS v8.4 12/08/2014

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Page 2-44 Fixes detected by Bucknell student David Gillett on Jan. 31, 2017.

fix the ×
to be a /

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Page 2-88 Fixes detected by Michael Hanyak (hanyak@bucknell.edu) on Nov. 30, 2013.
Page 2-89 Fixes detected by Michael Hanyak (hanyak@bucknell.edu) on Nov. 30, 2013.

Fixes are indicated by the to-be-deleted text in red cross-out boxes and the new text within blue rectangles.

A. Copy a PFD to a Word document.

After you complete your work on a HYSYS assignment, you may want to paste the
contents of the PFD into a page of a Word document that you are preparing for your
formal solution to an assignment. Proceed as follows to capture the current PFD, paste it
as a picture into a Word document, and then format this picture:

1. Click the Zoom to Fit button in the bottom To place the entire flowsheet, its documentation
right corner of the HYSYS desktop. text, and its stream table in the PFD window.

Click the Percent Zoom value in the bottom To provide some spacing above the top title line
right portion of the HYSYS desktop and reset and below the bottom of the stream table. About a
the percentage value of the zoom. quarter inch at the top and bottom is adequate.

Click the <PrtSc> button; that is, the Print To capture the complete contents of the Aspen
Screen key on the top-right portion of the HYSYS desktop into the Windows clipboard.
keyboard.

Click the Snipping Tool program under the To do a rectangular capture of only the titles,
Start/All Programs/Accessories folder. process flow diagram and stream table within the
HYSYS flowsheet window and copy this captured
image into the Windows clipboard.

Note that  While leaving the HYSYS program open, you will
now paste the captured picture image and
manipulate it using the Microsoft Word program.

2. Choose Start/All Programs/Microsoft To start the Microsoft Word program. It will open
Office/Microsoft Word. with a new document.

Press keys <Ctrl><Shift><*> on the keyboard. To show the paragraph markers.

Press the <Enter> key on the keyboard twice. To add two more lines to the new document.

Place the cursor in the second line. To identify the insertion point for the picture.

Press keys <Ctrl><E> on the keyboard. To center the insertion point for the picture.

Press keys <Ctrl><V> on the keyboard. To insert the picture from the Windows clipboard
into the Word document.

Note that  You will next do some simple formatting of this

picture image that represents the HYSYS process
flow diagram.

3. Click within the picture that you just pasted To reveal the selection border around the picture
into the Word document. image.

Select the Picture Tools/Format menu option To change the selection border around the picture
and click the Crop button in the tool bar. image to the cropping border.

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Select the Picture Tools/Format menu option
and select the Picture Border color.
Place the cursor over the short black vertical
line in the middle of the left edge of the picture.
Click and drag this edge to within about 0.5
inch of the left edge of the top title line.
Place the cursor over the short black vertical
line in the middle of the right edge of the
picture. Click and drag this edge to within
about 0.5 inch of the right edge of the top title
line.
Place the cursor over the short black vertical
line in the middle of the top edge of the picture.
Click and drag this edge down to near the top
edge of the table.
Place the cursor over the short black vertical
line in the middle of the bottom edge of the
picture. Click and drag this edge up to near the
bottom edge of the table.
Click outside of the picture image.
Note that 
4. Choose File/Exit from the menu bar, and
then click the Don’t Save button.
5. Click anywhere within the Flowsheet Main
window of the HYSYS desktop.
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To place a rectangular border around the picture
image.
To remove the left portion of the picture up to the
left edge of the top title line.
To remove the right portion of the picture up to the
right edge of the top title line
.
To remove the top portion of the picture down to
near the top title line.
To remove the bottom portion of the picture up to
near the bottom of the process stream table.
To complete the cropping process.
By inspecting the picture image (i.e., right-click it),
you can insert a caption title under the image and
format the image further if you want. Also, you
can drag the right lower corner of the picture to
increase its size.
To exit the Microsoft Word program and not save
the Word document.
To activate the HYSYS simulation program.
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Page A-4 authored by Michael Hanyak (hanyak@bucknell.edu) on Oct. 28, 2015.

E-Z Solve Software Workaround using the Excel “EZ Setup” Macro Add-In

The E-Z Solve software that was bundled with the Third Edition of the Felder and Rousseau
textbook “Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes” (2005, ISBN 978-0-471-68757-3) is no longer
operable in later versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system (Version 7 or later). Michael
Hanyak has authored a Microsoft Excel macro called “EZ Setup” to replace the partial functionality of
the E-Z Solve software. The “EZ Setup” macro parse a text description of a mathematical model or a
mathematical algorithm and generates in an Excel worksheet the Excel Solver formulation to minimize
the sum of squares. Using the Excel Solve utility, a user can obtain a solution to the unknown variables
in a set of algebraic equations.

The numerical solution to the batch problem presented in Appendix A uses the “EZ Setup”
macro. Click here to learn how to download and install the Excel “EZ Setup” macro Add-In on your
Windows-based computer. For the steam solution to the batch problem, Functions “energyW” and “densW”
are used to determine the specific internal energy and mass density for pure steam, respectively. These
two functions are part of a suite of functions for obtaining the thermodynamic and transport properties of
water and steam, based on the industrial standard IAPWS-IF97. This suite is available as an Excel Add-
In authored by Bernhard Spang, Hamburg, Germany (b.spang@hamburg.de). Click here to download and
install this Add-In, before trying to solve the problem in Appendix A.

If you already have a favorite “steam” Excel Add-In for its thermodynamic properties (like the
Excel APEx Add-In bundled with Elementary Principles of Chemical Processes, 4th Edition, by Felder, Rousseau,
and Bullard, 2016), then you do not need to obtain Spang’s Excel Add-In. In any “EZ Setup”
mathematical model or algorithm, change Spang’s function calls for “energyW” and “densW” to meet the
requirements for your favorite “steam” Add-In. After making those changes, you will have to re-
formulate that mathematical model or algorithm by clicking the “EZ Setup” button in Cell J2 of the
Excel worksheet.

Pages A-4 to A-6 in the electronic version of the HYSYS v8.3 manual have been updated to
reflect the use of the “EZ Setup” macro. Your paperback version of Pages A-4 to A-6 still reference the
unsupported E-Z Solve software. Please use the electronic version of these three pages, instead of their
paperback version.

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HYSYS 8.4 Fixes detected by Michael Hanyak (hanyak@bucknell.edu) on Dec. 8, 2014.

Fixes are indicated by blue rectangles to make the HYSYS v8.3 manual compatible with HYSYS v8.4.

Throughout the HYSYS v8.3 manual, the term “v8.3” is to be read as “v8.4”.

When the HYSYS v8.4 desktop opens, only one tabbed window named “Start Using Aspen HYSYS”
will appear in the workspace panel. In HYSYS 8.3, two tabbed windows use to appear.

Throughout the Aspen HYSYS v8.3 manual, the phrase “the Start Page window” means
“the Start Using Aspen HYSYS window” in the HYSYS Version 8.4 software.

Make the following changes in Tutorial 2.1

D. HYSYS at Your University Start on Page 2-6

4b. Click the × button in the tab name area of the To close it and view the HYSYS desktop window.
Start Using Aspen HYSYS window.

Under Section 4c., ignore the three comments identified by “Note that ” on Page 2-7.

Make the following changes in Tutorials 2.2

B. Open a pre-defined simulation file in HYSYS. Start on Pages 2-11

1. Choose Aspen HYSYS thru the Start menu on To access the Aspen HYSYS process simulation
the Windows desktop. program.

Click the × button in the tab name area of the To close it and view the HYSYS desktop window.
Start Using Aspen HYSYS window.

Click the middle Maximize Window icon  If necessary, to expand the HYSYS desktop
in the upper-right part of the HYSYS desktop. window to fit the full area of the monitor screen.

Click the Message Panel button in the Quick To close the Message panel near the bottom of the
Access Tool Bar panel. HYSYS desktop for now.

3. Choose File/Open/Open Case in the menu To begin opening the pre-defined HYSYS “.hsc”
ribbon. file that you retrieved in the previous section.

Navigate to either the computer Desktop or a To access the folder containing your copy of the

After you complete the directions in Step B.3 for HYSYS v8.4, the
workspace panel will contain only one tabbed window (Flowsheet
Main) in the HYSYS interface, instead of two tabbed windows—
Start Page and Flowsheet Main—under HYSYS v8.3.

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Make the following changes in Tutorial 2.3
A. Start the HYSYS program. Start on Page 2-30

1. Choose Aspen HYSYS thru the Start menu on To access the Aspen HYSYS process simulation
the Windows desktop. program.

Click the × button in the tab name area of the To close it and view the HYSYS desktop window.
Start Using Aspen HYSYS window.

Click the middle Maximize Window icon  If necessary, to expand the HYSYS desktop
in the upper-right part of the HYSYS desktop. window to fit the full area of the monitor screen.

Click the Message Panel button in the Quick To close the Message panel near the bottom of the
Access Tool Bar panel. HYSYS desktop for now.

B. Create a simulation basis. Start on Page 2-31

1. Choose File/New/Case in the menu ribbon. To open the simulation basis environment as
identified by the Properties navigation pane that
contains the items of Components Lists”, “Fluid
Packages”, etc.
. .
. .
. .

Make the following changes in Tutorials 2.4 to 2.10

B. Open a pre-defined simulation file in HYSYS.
Start on Pages 2-48, 2-61, 2-74, 2-93, 2-107, 2-124, and 2-137

1. Choose Aspen HYSYS thru the Start menu on To access the Aspen HYSYS process simulation
the Windows desktop. program.

Click the × button in the tab name area of the To close it and view the HYSYS desktop window.
Start Using Aspen HYSYS window.

Click the middle Maximize Window icon  If necessary, to expand the HYSYS desktop
in the upper-right part of the HYSYS desktop. window to fit the full area of the monitor screen.

Click the Message Panel button in the Quick To close the Message panel near the bottom of the
Access Tool Bar panel. HYSYS desktop for now.

3. Choose File/Open/Open Case in the menu To begin opening the pre-defined HYSYS “.hsc”
ribbon. file that you retrieved in the previous section.

Navigate to either the computer Desktop or a To access the folder containing your copy of the

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