Design Software for Vessels and Heat Exchangers
Design Software for Vessels and Heat Exchangers
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My boss wanted me to see about finding the best design software for Section VIII U-1A Tanks/Vessels and Heat Exchangers. If anybody has any suggestions please let me know, any help would be much appreciated??





RE: Design Software for Vessels and Heat Exchangers
What do you expect from your software? Just calculations? Solid models? Shop drawings?
Try to narrow down these things, Google it and also search this site, it gets discussed periodically.
Regards,
Mike
RE: Design Software for Vessels and Heat Exchangers
RE: Design Software for Vessels and Heat Exchangers
For PV's, check out Compress. For Hx's check out HTRI (Heat Transfer Research Institute).
rmw
RE: Design Software for Vessels and Heat Exchangers
We use to make the mechanical calculations. If you want to make termic calculations (design previous to mechanical) HTRI is like a standard.
I work in the Mechanical dept. I only use this program. Usually it have problems: stop tu run with no cause and the report its less easy to read than others; Ej: PV Lite. I don´t know too much how run this program but your material data base it´s better than protol. Sometimes microprotol give bad values for allowance tension for an edition of asme II.
Microprotol can use various codes: ASME AD BS EN CODAP and in various editions.
A colleague with experience say me are three bigs: PV lite (Itentergraph), Compress , Microprotol (Bentley).
RE: Design Software for Vessels and Heat Exchangers
RE: Design Software for Vessels and Heat Exchangers
Regards,
Mike