Capabilities
- Experiment with operating conditions and scenarios
- Easily change system input data including transient valve positions, pump operation, control set points, pressures, temperatures and more
- Model a wide range of system components from handbook empirical sources or input manufacturer data
- Initiate transients based on time or events in the system
- Reduce surge magnitudes by adjusting system component transients such as valve closures or pump speed
- Calculate transient unbalanced forces and define force sets as location pairs or single points
- Specify alerts that automatically highlight output values that are out of range for flow, pressure, velocity, pump best efficiency point and more
- Prevent transient pressure issues by properly sizing and locating surge equipment, such as surge tanks, gas accumulators, and relief valves
- Evaluate codes and industry standards applied in the model
- Compile database libraries of your frequently used piping components and select them from a drop down list
Benefits
- Understand the transient response of your system
- Avoid damaging effects of waterhammer and other undesirable system transients
- Alleviate issues associated with inadequate system designs or operational procedures
- Validate the design of safety features
- Visualize the dynamic interaction of valves, pumps and othercomponents
Applications
- Ensure pressure extremes are within design allowables
- Size and locate surge suppression equipment
- Determine imbalanced pipe forces for sizing structural supports
- Troubleshoot existing systems to determine the cause of operational problems
- Evaluate the effect of pressure surges due to vapor cavity collapse
Features
- Built-in steady-state solver to automatically initialize waterhammer transient
- Compound transient event logic to model complex control sequences
- Detailed pump inertial modeling for trips and startups using one quadrant or four quadrant methods
- Extensive cavitation modeling including liquid column separation
- Scenario Manager to track all design variants and operational possibilities in a single model file
- Comprehensive modeling of relief valves, surge tanks, and gas accumulators
- Integrated graphing and reporting
- Animation tools for visual interpretation of complex transient interactions
- Generates force imbalance files that can be automatically read into CAESAR II ®, ROHR2, AutoPIPE and TRIFLEX ® pipe stress dynamic models
- Built-in libraries of fluids (including NIST REFPROP and ASME Steam Tables) and fittings which can be extended and customized
Data Integration
- Import piping layouts and dimensional data from GIS Shapefiles, CAESAR II® Neutral Files, and PCF files from a wide range of sources
- Import and export files in EPANET format
- Robust Excel integration to import and export data
Add-On Modules
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Settling Slurry (SSL)
The only commercial software solution that can model both non-settling and settling slurry waterhammer effects.
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Pulsation Frequency Analysis (PFA)
Helps identify and avoid resonant frequencies in systems, especially in those caused by positive displacement pumps.
How does it work?
AFT Impulse incorporates a steady-state solver providing seamless transfer of initial conditions to the transient analysis. Steady-state solutions are determined using Newton-Raphson matrix iteration. The traditional Method of Characteristics is used to solve the transient mass and momentum equations of pipe flow.
Formation
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