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AspenTech Teams Up with NIST to Deliver Industry's
Largest Chemical Property Database

Model complex processes in minutes, not months

With the recent news that AspenTech and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have received an R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine, you now have important third-party validation of aspenONE’s unique “out-of-the-box” modeling capabilities.

“For the first time, engineers worldwide now have a tool that not only assures strict quality control of data delivery, but provides critically evaluated data on demand for state-of-the art chemical process and product design.” — Michael Frenklach, Department of Mechanical Engineering Professor, University of California - Berkeley

Simulate the most complex chemical processes—and do it in minutes, not months. Leveraging the industry’s largest built-in physical property database, aspenONE Engineering enables you to:

• Access physical property data for 17,000+ organic compounds
• Instantly access over one million sets of experimental pure-component data
• Collect and validate property data in minutes instead of weeks or months
• Estimate and fit missing property parameters using a built-in expert system

Aspen Plus® and Aspen HYSYS® are industry-leading modeling tools in the aspenONE Engineering suite.  The R&D 100 Award in particular recognizes Aspen Plus, a leading simulation tool for the chemical, polymer, specialty chemical, metals and mining, and coal power industries.

For more information on how aspenONE can save you significant time and expense in chemical process modeling using the NIST ThermoData Engine, read the executive summary or view this short presentation.

“This software represents the first and only chemical process design product currently available that supports the development and modification of products and processes on the basis of an ‘entire body of knowledge’ that is updated continuously.”
— Dr. Frederick Dryer, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
Princeton University

See the NIST ThermoData Engine in action!

To see a multimedia demonstration of the NIST ThermoData Engine used in selected Aspen Plus applications, as well as learn more about the integration of the property database in Aspen Plus, click on the link below:

Demonstration: Aspen Plus with NIST ThermoData Engine

(To view this demo, you need a user name and password. If you do not have an AspenTech web support account, you may register for one at http://support.aspentech.com.)

Collaboration with NIST to deliver best-in-class modeling

AspenTech has a long-standing relationship with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, enabling aspenONE to deliver the world’s largest set of pure component data. This extensive, time-saving data continues to grow with each new release of the software.

The R&D 100 Award is the culmination of this cooperative partnership and underscores our commitment to R&D investment that is unmatched in engineering and optimization software for the process industries. AspenTech recognizes the importance of properties and thermodynamics in process engineering and, through collaboration with key organizations like NIST, strives to deliver best-in-class physical property data and models for the widest range of processes.

“Through continuous updates of all relevant thermophysical and thermochemical properties, design engineers will be able to spend more time solving problems rather than worrying about the quality of the thermophysical properties data used in the simulation.” — Dr. Navin Patel, Technology Solutions Group, QinetiQ North America Operations LLC

What is the R&D 100 Award?

Since 1963, R&D Magazine has given the R&D 100 Award to honor the latest technology developments that have met important societal, scientific, or business challenges. Previous winners include such revolutionary technologies as the fax machine (1975), the liquid crystal display (1980) and HDTV (1998). R&D Magazine is world-renowned for providing timely, informative news and useful technical articles that broaden readers’ knowledge of the research and development industry and improve the quality of their work.