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The strongest recommendations for Piping Systems FluidFlow come from the response of people who use and benefit from Piping Systems FluidFlow.

Sean McCreesh, Total Engineering Consultants, Northern Ireland
After using the Gas module of the FluidFlow software, I can only describe it as being a useful tool to predict the fluid behaviour in a system where the traditional hand calculation methods would prove extremely tedious (if not impossible).

The software proves even more beneficial when a component from an 'Original' Design proposal is changed. By inputting the parameters of the new component the revised calculations can be displayed in seconds. Traditional methods used to re-do calculations would be too time consuming, and therefore costly, for an Engineer to validate any proposed changes to a system.

Sharon Allen, Project Management Ltd, Ireland
The company I work for is an engineering consultancy and we are continually faced with the task of sizing utility distribution networks, sizing pumps, compressors and control valves, and troubleshooting plant problems. While some of these tasks can easily done by hand, some are either too difficult (because the solutions are iterative) or too time consuming, and in this case a program such as Fluid Flow is an extremely useful tool.

I have used the program on a number of utility distribution systems to check line sizes, to size pressure control valves and to check the impact of taking various users on and off. One system that was successfully simulated was a chilled water distribution network. This involved two pumps in parallel with variable speed drives, over 20 users requiring chilled water at various flow rates and pressures, 7 pressure control valves and a mass of interconnecting supply and return piping. Once the network was simulated, the impact of changing parameters was easily seen. From the simulation we were able to determine optimal header and lateral line sizes, determine the pressure at various points in the system and understand the flow distribution, which users were likely to be starved etc., calculate the parameters needed for selecting pressure control valves and check the ability of the pumps to handle changing loads. The simulation allowed a rigorous assessment of the network and provided a far greater understanding of how the system responded to situations than could be achieved through hand calculations.

R. Parkanyi, BOC Gases, New York, USA
I just finished doing a piping network analysis for a fabrication customer that was fairly complex: a large header system for a weld gas mixture with a lot of drops (47 of them). To complicate matters the header was not a "branch" system, it was a "loop" system.

I would not have been able to perform calculations for a loop system using my other methods. It probably would have taken a few days to analyze a similar branch system. On top of that, the customer requested analyses for both steel and copper piping.

Key benefits of the software are being able to properly model a piping configuration reducing over design of systems, keeping costs down. Also having a common platform allows engineers to help each other out.

BOC Gases have entered into a corporate-wide license of FluidFlow ensuring that the software is made available throughout their offices around the globe.

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