Aspen Adsim 21.0

Aspen Adsim by AspenTech is a specialized simulation tool for designing, analyzing, and optimizing cyclic adsorption processes such as pressure swing adsorption (PSA), vacuum swing adsorption (VSA), temperature swing adsorption (TSA), and related variants. Built for engineers working on gas separation, purification, and drying, it provides high-fidelity, dynamic models that capture multicomponent adsorption equilibria, heat effects, mass transfer, axial dispersion, and pressure drop—enabling accurate prediction of purity, recovery, productivity, and energy use.

Key capabilities include:

• Cycle synthesis and scheduling: Configure multi-bed cycles with customizable steps, valve logic, equalization, purge, and rinse operations; evaluate start-up and cyclic steady state.
• Sorbent and thermodynamics support: Use common isotherm models (e.g., Langmuir variants, Sips, Toth) with temperature-dependent behavior; model layered beds and multiple adsorbents.
• Parameter estimation and optimization: Fit isotherm and kinetic parameters to experimental data; run sensitivities and multi-objective optimizations to balance performance and energy.
• Scale-up and troubleshooting: Translate lab and pilot findings to commercial scale; diagnose bottlenecks and debottleneck existing units.

Typical applications include hydrogen purification, CO2 capture and removal, air drying and nitrogen/oxygen generation, natural gas dehydration and sweetening, biogas upgrading, and VOC capture. Aspen Adsim helps reduce development time and risk while improving throughput, efficiency, and product quality.

Aspen Adsim is developed by AspenTech and is used by 1 user of Software Informer. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 12.1, 13.2, 20.0 and 21.0. The names of program executable files are ads.exe, APOManager200.exe, APOManager210.exe, APOWn200.exe and AspenModeler.exe.