Engineer's Aide SINET (process system SIzing and NETwork analysis) received the 1999 Chemical Processing Magazine's Vaaler Award. Engineer's Aide SINET, is used corporate wide for the analysis of piping and related process equipment at industry leading companies worldwide including 3M, BASF, Dow Chemical, Eastman Chemical, and GE. SINET's patented SmartDraw interface is the fastest and most effective way to analyze large piping networks of plant utility systems. Additional SINET benefits include Smartfittings(tm) and Engineering Intelligence(tm) for automated sizing of piping, pumps, and related process equipment. Comprehensive thermodynamic options include the AIChE DIPPR® Database of over 2000 components combined with EPCON's flash engine.


Comments from a panel of leading industry experts that recently awarded Engineer’s Aide SINET the Chemical Processing magazine Vaaler Award indicate the outstanding value and benefits of SINET. One judge stated , “I wish I could have kept this software for my personal use.” Another judge commented, “Use is quite intuitive - without reading the manual, I was literally solving problems within five minutes of loading the program.” A case study submitted by Eastman Chemical was one of many projects that exceeded a 10:1 ROI using SINET.


SINET PRO Version: Provides analysis of both liquid and gas systems with one interface - EPCON's patented SmartDraw Process Designer. The PRO version is unmatched in features, technology, and value, and is ideal for indepth analysis of plant wide utility systems, troubleshooting of process systems, and verifying process safety.


SINET XLT Version: Includes all the features of the PRO version and adds the AIChE DIPPR Database of 2000 components, 2-phase flow analysis, non-isothermal analysis, and Vessel/Tank Sizing.


SINET XLC Version: Includes all the features of the XLT version and adds the comprehensive Equipment Costs module. This simulates the design and fabrication of vessels, columns, and exchangers to develop accurate cost estimates and quickly evaluate project alternatives.





CHEMPRO Engineering Suite offers the most advanced technology for the analysis of process piping systems including all the features of Engineer's Aide SINET. Perform analysis of complex multi-component flare systems with thousands of pipes and nodes including systems with many loops, flares, and knock-out drums. The database driven design easily accommodates multiple cases and allows existing relief valve studies to be directly imported without duplication of data entry. The dynamic flash analysis of tanks and pressure vessels in the system accurately determines the maximum flare header load under fire conditions for computation of relief valve back-pressures for each scenario. Electronic transfer of required data from other site applications, including keyword based files and relief valve sizing data, is available as apart of the engineering solution that CHEMPRO provides.


CHEMPRO Unique Features:
  • Rigorous 3-phase flash and pipeline heat loss modeling capabilities
  • Models large complex flare header systems with multiple loops, flares, and knock-out drums
  • Database driven design allows direct import of existing relief valves studies and data
  • Patented method of data input and graphical interface reduces input by up to 50%
  • Dynamic flash analysis of tanks and pressure vessels for PRV fire case analysis
CHEMPRO Advanced Capabilities:
  • Single, linked, and looped network analysis
  • Liquid, compressible gas, and 2-phase analysis
  • Engineering Intelligence™ for automated sizing
  • Pump, fan, and compressor sizing
  • Shell & tube heat exchanger sizing
  • Plate & frame heat exchanger sizing
  • Flowmeter, control, relief valve sizing
  • Pressure vessel and tank sizing
  • DIPPR® thermophysical properties
  • Direct data link with the API Technical Database
  • Design & costing of process equipment




At the heart of the engineering, design and operation of today’s highly competitive petroleum industry is the American Petroleum Institute (API) Technical Database™. From offshore platforms to refineries and storage facilities, version 3 of the API Technical Database replaces the wealth of information from the API Tech Data Book developed by the American Petroleum Institute over the past 40 years in a modern, interactive software application with over 130 API standard methods fully documented in PDF format. Additional data from recent research on the phase equilibrium of various sulfur contaminants in gasoline and diesel products has also been included to provide a basis for investigating process options required to help meet new federally mandated regulations. The API Technical Database is critically reviewed and approved by the API Technical Data Committee including the refining industry’s leading experts, giving you consistent and accurate information to get the job done right.


Perform rigorous 3-phase flash computations using API standard methods and determine properties of complex mixtures, including inorganic gases, pure hydrocarbons and petroleum fractions. Estimate critical properties, vapor pressure, density, viscosity, enthalpy, heat of vaporization, heat capacity, surface tension, thermal conductivity, etc. for a broad range of pure components, petroleum fractions, and their mixtures. Temperature dependent properties can be tabulated and graphed over any range, and distillation interconversions are displayed both numerically and graphically. This technical data can then be used in engineering software applications to help improve the design, operation, and safety of facilities in the petroleum industry.

Features:
  • Characterization of Petroleum Fractions
  • API Rigorous 3-Phase Flash Calculations
  • Mixtures of Pure Components and
  • Petroleum Fraction Pseudocomponents
  • API Pure Component Property Database
  • ASTM, TBP, SD Conversions
  • User Defined Property Data Correlations
  • Split Petroleum Fractions into Psuedocomponents
  • Petroleum Fraction Property Prediction
  • Pure Component Property Prediction
  • New and Updated Inspection Property Methods
  • Hydrate Formation Prediction Methods

Corporate Wide Licensees

  • BP
  • Bechtel
  • ChevronTexaco
  • ExxonMobil
  • Foster Wheeler
  • Kellogg Brown & Root
  • Marathon Ashland
  • Phillips Petroleum
  • Royal Dutch Shell
  • Sunoco




ENVIRON provides environmental, safety, and health property data and estimations - giving chemical and manufacturing engineers the latest data and methods for managing EPA and OSHA regulated substances, in a database of more than 1000 chemicals and 55 physical properties. ENVIRON data and methods have been comprehensively analyzed using statistical quality control techniques and independently reviewed by DIPPR sponsor companies to provide un-paralleled accuracy and credibility.


ENVIRON, developed by Michigan Tech University in cooperation with the Design Institute of Physical Properties (DIPPR®) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and EPCON International is the culmination of a decade-long effort and millions of R&D dollars.


ENVIRON includes these vital environmental, safety, and health physical property data from the Clean Air Act Ammendments, OSHA, EPC Risk Management program and leading industrial sources and publications:

General Physical Properties: MW, Density, MP, NBP, VP, IG Cp, Tc, Pc, Vc, Heat of Formation & Vaporization

Oxygen Demand Parameters: ThOD, BOD, COD (dichromate and permanganate

Partitioning/Equilibirum: Henry’s Law constant, Activity Coeff in Water & Chemical, Solubility Limit, Log Kow & Koc, Bioconcentration Factor

Transport Properties: Diffusivity in Water & Air, Surface Tension, Liquid/Vapor Viscosity, Liquid/Vapor Thermal Conductivity

Fire and Explosion Data: Flash Point, Upper/Lower Flammability Limit, Autoignition Temp, Net Heat of Combustion

Aquatic Toxicity Data: concentrattions of Lethal and Effective chemicals for various species and exposure times

ENVIRON is used corporate-wide by:

  • BP
  • DuPont
  • Eastman Chemical
  • Phillips Petroleum
  • Shell Oil Company
"Everyone in this business should have a copy. The researchers have done an unbiased, objective evaluation and come up with what they think are the best numbers - thats the best part about having done this through a university. It’s an invaluable collection of environmental chemical and physical properties for anybody who is doing environmental work.” Noel Scrivner, PhD, Fellow: DuPont Enginering Technology




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