PV Elite Design Calculation
PV Elite Design Calculation
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Hello everyone,
I am currently assigned to review PV Elite design calculations. Is there any tips as to what to look for in that design calculations?
Thanks
I am currently assigned to review PV Elite design calculations. Is there any tips as to what to look for in that design calculations?
Thanks





RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
http://www.coade.com/products/pv-elite
is probably what you are talking about. if it isn't then you need to explain quick-smart.
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
Sorry for the confusion.
Cheers,
Jo Joget
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
Also, lose your bashful and ego, and go talk with your boss or some senior engineers at your company, and ask for their help, ask them to be your mentors. They have a vested interest in your doing well, and doing it right, and are usually quite willing and understanding. These are really important relationships when you are starting out and they can be very rewarding for all/both parties involved in the process. You can be looking at the same sketch, or code, or text book paragraph at the same time, and he/she can give you more immediate guidance. Don't b.s. them about what you know and don't know, that can come back and bite you. Over time you'll learn more this way, and with some self study, than you ever learned in school. Then come here for a few of the extra details, not as a basis for your total knowledge.
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
But before that, I would determine what the proper inputs should be, that is, what I am checking to.
But before that I'd gain some familiarity with the Code of construction so that I'd know if the proper calculations are being performed in the first place.
Once I'd done all that, and assuming I had a feel for what reasonable answers should be, I'd look at the output.
Regards,
Mike
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
Just makes me wonder, that's all.
Regards,
Cockroach
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
If the idea is for the new employee to be responsible for what the vendor is doing, really really bad idea.
Regards,
Mike
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
If that's the only thing that makes you wonder about or question the state of affairs in the engineering profession these days, then we are in bigger trouble than either of us thought. SnTMan may have the real answer, but then my advice is all the more appropriate for Joget's real learning process.
In any case it's getting late in the day/week, so... let's the three of us adjourn and have a few beers and talk about something interesting like sxxxx.
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
Very helpful for understanding what the important quantities are, and for developing the feel for correct answers I mentioned earlier. Also essential for understanding the limitations built in, but not readily apparent in canned software. Once you learn these you can learn how to "lie" to the software to get around some of the limitations.
You can then progress by building a few spreadsheets for, say, shell and head thickness, nozzle reinforcing, and if you are ambitious, bolted flanges. For the last and for external pressure calcs, you need not worry about programming the tabular data, curve functions and so forth. just pick the quantity of interest off the chart, you will be close enough for your purposes.
Good luck, and come back when you need some help.
Regards,
Mike
RE: PV Elite Design Calculation
Thank you very much for your advice.
Jo Joget