Capabilities
- Accurately simulate high-speed transients in steam and gas piping systems including choked pipe flow conditions
- Evaluate overall system response and transient pipe forces after steam and gas turbine trips
- Predict transient supply pressures, temperatures and pipe flows to operating gas compressors and turbines when one trips offline
- Simulate tank blowdowns and charging, and how long it takes to reach desired pressures
- Predict transient pressures and pipe flows due to heat exchanger tube ruptures
- Easily change system input data including transient valve positions, compressor operation, control set points, pressures, temperatures and more
- Initiate transients based on time or events in the system
Benefits
- Reduce expensive overdesign resulting from analytical uncertainty
- Increase uptime by understanding how an unexpected transient event will impact pressure, temperature and pipe flow delivery to critical equipment
- Improve safety by evaluating all system shut down scenarios
- Validate that required pipe flow can be delivered with certainty
- Visualize the dynamic response
Applications
- Ensure pressure, temperature and pipe flow extremes are within design allowables
- Determine imbalanced pipe forces for sizing structural supports
- Troubleshoot existing systems to determine the cause of operational problems
Features
- 2D flow diagram or isometric view interface
- Built-in steady-state solver to automatically initialize system before the transient
- Automatic pipe sectioning based on steady-state acoustic velocities
- Compound transient event logic to model complex control sequences
- Scenario Manager to track all design variants and operational possibilities in a single model file
- 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
- Define component mixtures using the built-in NIST REFPROP and ChempakTM add-on thermophysical databases, totaling over 600 unique fluids
Data Integration
- Import piping layouts and dimensional data from GIS Shapefiles, CAESAR II® Neutral Files, and PCF files from a wide range of sources
- Robust Excel integration to import and export data
Add-On Modules
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Pulsation Frequency Analysis (PFA)
Helps identify and avoid resonant frequencies in systems, especially in those caused by reciprocating compressors.
How does it work?
AFT xStream incorporates a highly accurate steady-state solver which provides seamless transfer of initial conditions to the transient analysis. Steady-state solutions are determined using a modified Newton-Raphson matrix iteration plus proprietary methods developed by AFT. The Method of Characteristics is used to solve the transient mass, momentum and energy equations of pipe flow.
Formation
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