Thermo/fluid Design
Thermo/fluid Design
(OP)
I was curious if anyone could direct me to a program that would aid in the design of a simple pipeing system with a few elbows and valves hooked up to a pump and a single heat exchanger. Is there anything out there that one can fill in parameters and have it compute a optimum value for some parameters? Possibly a good book dealing in this sort of design? Any help would be appriciated. My email is fuledbyadrenalin@hotmail.com Thank you for any help you can offer me.





RE: Thermo/fluid Design
The only program I know of that will optimize piping/equipment size based on newtwork flow goals is the "MERCURY" program offered by AFT...
try www.aft.com/products/mercury/
This product was set up for sale to large corporations.....not one-time users....
For the "newbie" interested in the design of fluid systems, try some of the free software packages available at "freecalc.com"..... you may have to run some of them several times to get a result that is acceptable.......but the price is right...
Let us know more about your problem and what method you select....
MJC
RE: Thermo/fluid Design
RE: Thermo/fluid Design
Although not a program a good place to start on the does and don't of piping design take a look at:
http://www.nts.no/norsok/p/p00104/p00104.htm
Also for friction losses:
http://www.monachos.gr/greek/calculators/Darcy_weisbach.htm
Cheers
gb