AutoPIPE Vessel Heat Exchanger
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Pressure vessel and heat exchanger design software
- Design and model shell and tube heat exchangers
- Generate detail drawings and 3D models
- Import nozzle load from AutoPIPE pipestress model
- Perform finite element stress analysis of expansion joint
- Perform detail cost estimation
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Utilize comprehensive specialty software for the mechanical design of shell and tube heat exchangers
AutoPIPE Vessel Heat Exchanger is a shell and tube heat exchanger analysis and design software that enables engineers and designers to save time and produce higher quality designs with fully automated workflows, complete global codes, and applied loadings.
Maximize productivity of skilled engineering resources
AutoPIPE Vessel Heat Exchanger provides optimal, cost-efficient, and accurate designs for the safe operation of heat exchangers across diverse loading conditions. Supporting a multitude of regional and global standards, including pressure vessel design codes and regional wind and seismic codes, this application offers unparalleled flexibility. AutoPIPE Vessel Heat Exchanger enhances adaptability for rerating and revamping existing equipment, facilitates brownfield and greenfield projects, and streamlines design processes by eliminating guesswork.
Optimized and flexible heat exchanger design and manufacturing
With AutoPIPE Vessel Heat Exchanger, manufacturers can swiftly assess options to provide comprehensive, high-quality solutions for all loading and manufacturing scenarios in minutes. The software seamlessly analyzes different loading conditions including lifted, erected, operating, shutdown, test, blast and user-defined conditions and generates detailed component and assembly drawings. By facilitating high-quality designs, it significantly diminishes manual drawing time and rework, enhancing overall competitiveness.
Key features—such as fatigue analysis, installation and support design and analysis, pressure testing, automatic drawing production, and cost estimation—further contribute to the efficiency of the process. With AutoPIPE Vessel Heat Exchanger, streamline your design process and stay ahead in the competitive landscape.
Faster time to production
Comprehensive, flexible modeling and an easy-to-use interface enable designers to find solutions quickly, improve the efficiency of modeling, and increase profitability. AutoPIPE Vessel Heat Exchanger allows manufacturers to increase productivity and accelerate delivery time, while enabling easier and more accurate design and analysis.
Shell and tube heat exchangers
- Designed to TEMA, CODAP, AD 2000, PD 5500, EN 13445, GOST, Chinese GB 151 and ASME
- Full weld details of nozzles and reinforcement including location of all component welds
- Detailed component and General Assembly Drawings
- Design flanges (gasket and bolting details and installation), baffles (five types), tubesheets, tube bundles, tie-rods, sealing strips, sliding rails, and support plates
- Metal bellows expansion joints designed to ASME, EJMA, CODAP, EN, and AD standards
- Design Flanged and Flued expansion joints based on TEMA 8th and 9th (Finite Element Method)
- Final drawing of the flattening of the shell profile with all nozzles, saddles, reinforcement, packing support, and more
- Modeling interface and editing tools to optimize and configure the tube and baffle layout
- Design floating head single and multipass; U-bend; fixed tubesheet types; all shell types (E, F, G, H, J, K, X); all TEMA front and rear end types (i.e. channel types A, B, C, D, N and rear end types L, M, N, S, T, U, W), (not P type)
Additional
- Comprehensive design and modeling of equipment and structural components, including stiffening rings, platforms, saddles, skirts, legs, brackets, lifting lugs and trunnions, internal lining and insulation
- Export to 3D CAD formats including PDS (3D), MicroStation (2D and 3D), BricsCAD, AutoCAD (2D and 3D DWG), AutoPLANT (3D), and SolidWorks (3D)
- U.S. customary and SI units (input also in kgf/cm2)
- Smart import of nozzle local load (sustained, thermal, and occasional) from Bentley’s AutoPIPE
- Languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese, Chinese, Croatian, and Russian (fully customizable dictionary)
- QA formatted Microsoft Word reports for all designed components and full vessel loading cases, including bending moment diagrams, weld, nozzle, and flange sketches and full design code references
- Governing load case (operating, installation, hydrotest, wind, blast, shutdown, motion or seismic) is reported for the calculation
- Local load analysis to PD 5500 Annex G or G.2.8 Alt. rules, WRC 107, 297, 537, EN 13445, GOST, Roark
- Saddle design with Zick analysis to ASME VIII Div 2, PD 5500, CODAP, EN 13445, AD, and GOST, and Chinese NB/T 47042 standard
- Comprehensive material databases for ASME, DIN, EN, GB-150, BS, GOST, ASTM, and NF (French) materials
- Customizable company standards for saddle supports and nozzle loading
- Occasional loading including wind, vortex shedding, seismic, motion, and blast loading
Optimized Design
- Erected, lifting, operating, test, blast, and shutdown loading conditions evaluated, and 5 additional user-defined load cases can be calculated
- Nozzle reinforcement, flange design, support design, and vessel deflection and rotation
- Automatic detailed cost estimations (fully customizable in Excel)
- Wind, seismic (for most major global design codes), motion, blast and vortex shedding loads can be evaluated, and fatigue calculations performed for weld joints
Automatic Drawing Production
- Automated detailed drawings in seconds
- Create 2D drawings in MicroStation, BricsCAD, and AutoCAD, and 3D models in MicroStation, AutoCAD, and Solidworks with a click of a button
- Fully dimensioned engineering and manufacturing drawings
- White space management and configurable drawing sheet layout
- Customizable data, and connection details to meet manufacturer standards
- Bill of materials to meet company standard
Minimum
Intel or AMD processor 3.0 GHz or greater, Windows 8 Professional (64-bit) or higher, Windows 10 (64-bit) or higher, Microsoft Office 2013 or higher, 256 MB RAM, 1 GB hard disk, any industry-standard video card that supports OpenGL 3D graphics
Recommended
Adobe Acrobat Reader 10.0 or higher
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