Experto en Simulación de Procesos (Aspen Plus/Aspen Hysys)
Datos Generales
El curso “Experto en simulación de procesos” ha sido una novedosa iniciativa debido a la necesidad de representar en tiempo record la complejidad de los procesos industriales modernos, obligando a los profesionales a adoptar softwares especializados en cada área. Esta formación bajo esta modalidad es única en Latinoamérica, permitiéndoles a los participantes a distancia las herramientas necesarias para abordar de problemas de simulación de procesos de forma real y simplificada simuladores comerciales como Aspen Plus® y HYSYS®, herramientas más versátiles para ese fin, por contar con las interfaces más amigables del mercado.
Los conocimientos adquiridos le ayudará a mejorar su nivel profesional en Ingeniería y simulación de procesos, en áreas como: procesos químicos, petroleros y gasíferos, modelado de intercambiadores de calor, reactores, despresurización de sistemas de alivio de gases, análisis de sistemas de tuberías en campos de producción petrolera; así como evaluar las diferentes opciones y generar estrategias para el control de tanques de almacenaje de hidrocarburos, evaluación de cambio operativo en sistemas de compresión, enfriamiento y separación de gases de refinería, entre otros. Está estructurado para suministrar a los participantes las competencias necesarias para modelar las operaciones unitarias básicas y sus procesos con éxito.
Objetivos:
Este curso tiene como objetivo conocer cuáles son las bondades de un simulador de procesos, como modelar y optimizar un equipo de una planta o una planta completa. Al final del curso el participante será capaz de:
• Modelar, simular y optimizar un equipo de procesos
• Simular plantas de procesos usando simuladores comerciales.
Organizadores
Organiza la Escuela Internacional para la Educación Superior
Invitados
No existen invitados u otras instituciones.
Conferencistas o Docentes
Docente: Karen Romero Harrington (Venezuela, Maracaibo)
PhD en Ingeniería “Simulación de Procesos” en progreso. Magister Scientiarum en Ingeniería de Gas. 15 años de experiencia en la industria Oil &Gas y Petroquímica. Profesor y Facilitador de cursos en Petróleos de Venezuela, Pequiven y múltiples universidades latinoamericanas. Asesor Técnico de Pemex, Petrobras, Braskem, Ecopetrol, Pacific Rubiales y demás compañías a nivel mundial. Asistente de negocios de Aspen Technology LATAM. Conferencista internacional.
Certificación:
- Aval de la Universidad del Zulia-Venezuela
- Génesis Educativa y Sensus, C.A. Venezuela
- EIES (Escuela Internacional para la Educación Superior) Bolivia
Metodología y Plan Académico
Metodología:
El modelo de educación continua tiene como eje central al estudiante. Se implementa de forma asíncrona y 100% en línea, de modo que los participantes pueden conectarse y realizar sus actividades de aprendizaje con total independencia de tiempo y espacio.
Se orienta puntualmente al desarrollo de competencias profesionales específicas en los estudiantes, centradas sobre todo en el saber hacer profesional; entrega a los participantes herramientas que tienen aplicación inmediata en su ejercicio profesional.
Este curso tiene una duración de 5 semanas, los contenidos curriculares están graduados de forma tal que suponen una carga de 10 horas académicas de dedicación semanal para los estudiantes, haciendo un total de 80 horas de trabajo a lo largo de todo el curso.
El proceso educativo se lleva a cabo en un Campus Virtual diseñado en base a los más modernos principios pedagógicos, que favorece una eficiente conectividad entre estudiantes, profesores y administrativos.
El curso se desarrolla de acuerdo a un calendario académico definido, lo que permite que todo el grupo de estudiantes avance a un mismo ritmo hasta su conclusión y está a cargo de un profesor especialista en la temática, con amplia experiencia laboral y trayectoria internacional en el ejercicio docente.
La semana previa al inicio del proceso formativo, los estudiantes deben participar de un curso de inducción en el que se familiarizan con el modelo educativo y aprenden a desenvolverse en el campus virtual.
En cada una de las semanas de duración del curso, los estudiantes deben realzar la lectura de bibliografía científica especializada, participar en foros, resolver cuestionarios online y realizar tareas prácticas. Estas son actividades de aprendizaje que serán evaluadas y de las que se obtiene la calificación final del curso.
Las actividades de aprendizaje están diseñadas de manera que promueven la interacción entre los estudiantes y el profesor, quien puede ser consultado en cualquier momento del curso. La cantidad máxima de estudiantes participantes en un curso es de 30, lo que permite que el profesor le realice un acompañamiento individualizado.
El curso incluye cuatro videoconferencias con los participantes, las mismas que se realizan bisemanalmente (segunda, cuarta, sexta y octava semanas). Estas son reuniones síncronas dirigidas por el profesor, con participación de los estudiantes. Su propósito es realizar análisis de casos de estudio, que permita la integración de la teoría con la práctica. Son sesiones grabadas que quedarán a disposición de los estudiantes que no pudieron participar.
Las videoconferencias contemplan los siguientes videos ilustrativos:
Video 1. Iniciación en los simuladores de Procesos Aspen Plus® y HYSYS ®: Interfase, Bases para una simulación, Propiedades de los componentes y corriente de material. Paquetes termodinámicos.
Video 2: Modelación de separador de fases. Modificaciones adicionales utilizando la herramienta Especificaciones de Diseño
Video 3: Modelación de reactor tubular y mezcla completa:
Proceso de producción de cloruro de alilo/Análisis de sensibilidad
Video 4: Modelación de arreglo de línea de tuberías para hidrocarburos, especificando accesorios y fluidos multifásicos.
Video 5: Modelación de Planta de NGL, considerando y especificando tres columnas (Demetanizadora, Desetanizadora y Despropanizadora)
La calidad de los procesos académicos y administrativos es supervisada en cada una de sus fases, gracias a la integración de todos los sistemas informáticos. Tanto profesores como estudiantes son continuamente monitoreados con el objetivo de brindarles apoyo en el cumplimiento de sus deberes y obligaciones. Para esto, se cuenta con un potenciado grupo de profesionales en el Centro de Atención a los Estudiantes y Profesores, quienes resuelven rápidamente todas las dudas, consultas o dificultades que se generen en el desarrollo del proceso.
Unidades temáticas:
- Inducción al campus virtual
- Introducción al Simulador: Principios básicos
- Generalidades de la simulación – Interfaz del usuario -Librería de modelos – Árbol de navegación – Tipos de estrategias
- Implementación y simulación de un proceso – Pasos básicos y utilidades.
- Operaciones de Separación -Separadores de 2 y 3 fases. Cálculos cortos y rigurosos de columnas de destilación.
- Reactores Químicos – Diferentes configuraciones – Tipos de cinéticas.
- Intercambiadores de Calor – Cálculo de un condensador multicomponente.
- Equipos de Manejo de Fluidos – Tuberías – Manipuladores de presión.
- Operaciones auxiliares – Duplicadores.
- Aplicaciones Finales: Casos de estudio – Procesos del sector químico
- Manejo de gas natural- Procesos petroleros, refinación y petroquímica.
Dirigido a
Estudiantes de último semestre en Ingeniería y Profesionista en el área operacional y de procesos: Técnicos superiores, Ingenieros Químicos, Ingenieros Petroleros, Ingenieros de Gas, Ingenieros Petroquímicos interesado en reforzar los conceptos de redes y procesos industriales y dominar una herramienta de simulación que les permita un mayor nivel de competitividad profesional.
Getting Started
Let me introduce you to this course and to what you'll learn inside of it.
Let's start with the most important question first: What is CSS and why do we need it on our websites?
CSS constantly evolves so let me give you a quick overview of the past and the current development of CSS!
You now know what CSS is but what does the course actually offer you? This lecture will answer that question.
As noted in the course outline, this course offers multiple tracks. Here's how you reach your favorite one.
You know what this courses offers, but what do you need to succeed in this course? Let's have a look at the prerequisites.
There's more than one way of taking a course. Let's find out how you can get the most out of this course in this lecture.
Which tools are we using throughout this course? Time to have a quick look at our code editor and the recommended browser.
Find out where you can get the course source code.
Attached to this lecture, you find the module source code. Inside of the lecture, you can find some helpful links.
Diving Into the Basics of CSS
Let me introduce you to this module and to what you'll learn inside of it.
This is a hands-on course, so we will learn CSS in practice. Time to take a closer look at the starting setup for our course project!
We have an index.html file, but how can we add CSS now? Let me show you inline styles and how these allow us to change the look of our website!
We learned that inline styles are probably not the best way to add CSS code. So let's have a look at two other ways to achieve this and also explain which approach we will follow throughout the course.
We added CSS and applied some basic styling, but so far the same style is applied to all elements. Time to change that, so let's understand how we can select a specific element and add styles to it. Additionally, we'll import fonts using Google Fonts.
We learned how to select elements, but we probably need more selectors to style our website individually. Thankfully, we do have more selectors available in CSS, so let's understand classes, IDs and attribute selectors!
Our website keeps growing, but why are some styles applied and why is this not true for others? Turns out that there are two important concepts that are mainly responsible for that: The "Cascading" nature of CSS and Specificity. But what is the idea behind these?
We understood Specificity so the general styling logic is clear now. Unfortunately not, there is one additional core concept we definitely have to understand: Inheritance. Time to add this to our project and to understand it in this video!
For the styling of a website it is very important to define the look of the different parts of the website individually, because we definitely do not want our website to have the same style all over. Combinators helps us to achieve that.
We added the descendant combinator, but there are more combinators available in CSS. Time to dive into these in this theory lecture.
We learned a lot about the CSS core concepts in this module. Let me quickly summarize what we learned so far about selectors, properties and values!
Do you know how to work with all these selectors and combinators?
Let me wrap this module up and summarize what you learned thus far.
Attached to this lecture, you find the module source code. Inside of the lecture, you can find some helpful links.
Diving Deeper into CSS
Let me introduce you to this module and to what you'll learn inside of it.
One of the most important concepts to understand is the way CSS interacts with elements in HTML. This concept is called the box model, so let's see if we can find such a box in our project!
Content, padding, border, margin - we found and understood these parts of the box model. Let's now take a closer look at it and also understand the box model concept in connection with parent and child elements.
Why could we observe overlapping margins between two elements? Let's understand why margin collapsing causes this behaviour and how we can remove the default margin from the <body>.
Margins of elements can behave unexpectedly - here's a deep dive on the phenomena.
Theory time! Throughout this course we already applied a lot of properties. Turns out that we can combine multiple properties in a single one by using a shorthand. Let's understand these shorthands in this video!
Shorthands seem to make writing CSS code a lot easier. Let's try it out and apply some in practice in our project!
Styling our website also requires to define the size of our elements. In this video, we will apply the "height" and "width" properties and see how we can use these to change the box size according to our needs.
We changed the "height" and the "width", but what was actually changed? Let's dive into the "box-sizing" property and also learn, how we can use this property to change the default behaviour of the "height" and "width" properties.
Let's apply what we learned so far and dive deeper into our project. In this video, it's time to work on the header!
We have two types of elements in HTML - block-level and inline. But is there a way to change the default behaviour of these elements? Turns out it is, so let's find out how we can achieve this and why this might be helpful in certain situations.
There's more than one way of hiding elements on the page. Let's explore the differences between display: none; and visibility: hidden.
It's not really a CSS topic (though it's related to it) but it's super important to know. The difference between block-level and inline elements.
After we understood the "display" property it's now time to style our navigation bar. For that we'll also use the advantages of the "inline-block" value of this property.
"inline-block" is a really helpful value, but there is one specific behaviour which can cause problems in practice. Let me show you which problem this is and how you can easily solve it.
Let's continue the work in our project and improve the styling of our navigation. For that, we will style links with "text-decoration" and align elements with "vertical-align".
Styling links is very important as every website contain such. The default styling is not the most beautiful one though, so let's find out how we can improve that.
Pseudo classes are a big help to improve the user experience on our website. Why don't we take the chance and apply some pseudo-classes in our project?
Time to dive into the theory. We already applied pseudo classes, but which additional values are available and what is the difference between a pseudo class and a pseudo-element? Let's find the answers in this video!
Sometimes the same rules should be applied to different selectors. Turns out we can avoid repeating these rules again and again by grouping them. Let me show you how this works.
We constantly improve the look of our website, so let's use "font-weight" to change the default font style of selected elements. In addition to that, it's also time to add some borders.
Until now we only have list items in our navigation bar. Wouldn't it be great to have a special CTA-button in a different style? I think it would, so let's add one in this video.
The red block level element in the background is ok, but I think a real background image definitely would improve the user experience. Let's learn how we can easily add such an image in this video!
Puh, we worked with a lot of properties so far. Of course we don't have to remember every single property, but you will probably use some properties a lot. This short list will help you remembering these.
Let me wrap this module up and summarize what you learned thus far.
Attached to this lecture, you find the module source code. Inside of the lecture, you can find some helpful links.
More on Selectors & CSS Features
Let me introduce you to this module and what you'll learn in it.
There are a couple of things we can do with CSS classes and selectors in general.
Besides class selectors, we can use ID selectors, tag selectors etc. But which one should you use?
In very, very, very rare cases, you might need to force a certain declaration to overwrite the others, even though it normally wouldn't. Here comes !important.
Thus far, we always set our rules up to select certain elements. You can also set up rules that DON'T select something.
Not all CSS features are supported by all browsers. This lecture explains how you find out what is supported and what's not.
Let me wrap this module up and summarize what we learned thus far.
We got the very basics of CSS covered. Time to round it up and check if you got them down.
Attached to this lecture, you find the module resources. In the lecture, you find some helpful links.
Practicing the Basics
Let me introduce you to this module and to what you'll learn inside of it.
Our page gets more and more beautiful, but there is still a lot of content and styling missing. So let's add our different hosting plans and some basic styling in this video!
We want our users to focus onto the recommended plan. Let's use our CSS knowledge to highlight this plan!
The badge on the recommended plan doesn't stand out so far. Time to add some styling to it, to make clear that this is the plan to choose!
All our plans include lists which present the features of the corresponding plan. The bullet points are quite ugly though, so let's remove these and improve the look of our lists!
Let's continue with the title and the price presented on our plans. So far these look pretty unspectacular, time to change that!
The action button at the bottom of each box will redirect the user to the plan purchasing page. We want to make sure that our users click these buttons, so some nice button style might be a good idea.
We styled our buttons, but if we hover over these we still see an additional blue outline. This is automatically added to the element and definitely something we don't want to be displayed. Let's learn how we can remove it in this video.
Time to add another (unstyled) section, which presents the core advantages of our hosting service to the user!
Let's start styling the new section! A good starting point probably is the headline and the background!
Time to style the list which includes our core website features. As these are presented as list items, we can apply our previous knowledge to change the list style. Additionally, we should align the features.
We reached the end of our starting page - time to add a footer. Let's learn how we can easily add one in this video!
We finished (at least partially) our starting page. So let's think about what we achieved so far and how we can continue. Because one page probably is not enough...
Time to add more content, this time for the packages page. We know how this works, so let's add the HTML code and apply some basic styling to get started.
Now it's your turn! You learned a lot so far, so let's take the chance and practice what we learned. Style the page on your own and try to achieve the result shown in this video!
How did I solve it? Let me show you my solution in this video and let's start with the styling of our links.
The links look fine, but the different plans also need individual styles. Time to add these in this video!
Until now the plans are displayed according to the document flow, but we would prefer to display one plan aligned to the right part of the page. How could we achieve this?
With "float" being applied, the free plan is positioned correctly, but the hover effect doesn't work correctly any more. Let me show you how to easily fix that in this video.
This was a lot of work, but we now finished two pages - great job! Let's fix some minor issues before we dive deeper into positioning in the next module to further improve the look of our website!
Attached to this lecture, you find the module source code. Inside of the lecture, you can find some helpful links.
Positioning Elements with CSS
Let me introduce you to this module and to what you'll learn inside of it.
Before we dive deeper - why is positioning elements important when creating a website? Let's take a look at our website and identify potential areas of improvement for the position of our elements!
How does positioning work? Let's recap the default behaviour of elements and understand how the "position" property can be used to change the default position of elements.
We understood that we can apply different values to the "position" property. Let's take a closer look at the "fixed" value, understand its positioning context and the impact on the document flow it has on the element it is applied to.
We already have a navigation bar on our website, but as soon as we scroll down the bar disappears. Let's understand how we can stick the navigation bar to the viewport with the "fixed" value.
The navigation bar works, but we also need a background image for our Packages page. Turns out that the "fixed" value can also be very helpful is this situation, so let's find our more.
We added the background image but the remaining elements are hidden below it. Why isn't there a property that allows us to change the element order along the z-axis? Thankfully the "z-index" does exactly that, so time to understand and apply it!
The "Plus" plan is the #1 choice for our customers and our recommendation. Why don't we add a badge to this package which indicates exactly what? Let me show you how the "absolute" and "relative" values work together and make the positioning of the badge a breeze!
We added the badge but the positioning is not perfect yet and we definitely need to add more style to it. So let's continue!
The "relative" value was very helpful to position the badge, but did we really understand how it works? Let's dive deeper and find out more about its positioning context and its impact on the positioning context on the element it is applied to.
We learned a lot about the position property in this module so far. Let's now practice this knowledge in this quiz before we continue!
With "relative" we can move our element without any limitations - even outside of its parent. In case this is our intention that's ok, but what if we want to make the element invisible once it leaves the parent element? Then we need "overflow"...
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