Pipe Flow Software

Wilmslow, England, March 11th, 2009

PipeFlow.co.uk (http://www.pipeflow.co.uk) today announced the release of PipeFlow® Expert 2009 version 4.12. Pipe Flow Expert 2009 further enhances PipeFlow’s premier software application for designing and modeling pipe systems and now provides an additional isometric 3D drawing interface.

PipeFlow® Expert2009 will calculate and solve the flows and pressures through out a pipe system, and caters for both open and closed loop pipe networks. PipeFlow Expert 2009 provides a model that let’s you see what is happening in your pipe system. It calculates flow rates, pipe pressure drops, friction losses, pump operating points and much more. For further information see:

http://www.pipeflow.co.uk/public/control.php?_path=/497/738

Pipe Flow Expert 2009 includes the following new features:

• ISOMETRIC 3D Drawing Capabilities
  Automatic rotation of symbols to look 3D
  Smart text positioning on Isometric grid
  Switch between Isometric view and Normal view
  Easily translate existing drawings to Isometric View
• Easy Un-Hook and Move Pipe functionality
  Highlight pipe, click again to unlink and start rubber banding.
• Mirror, Invert, and Rotation of Selections.
  Selection: Mirror Items Left/Right
  Selection: Flip Items Up/Down
  Selection: Rotate +90 degrees
  Selection: Rotate -90 degrees
• Support for Additional Keyboard Shortcuts
  CTRL+X, CTRL-C, CTRL-V for Cut,Copy & Paste, plus many others.
• Improved Pan of drawing
  Now supported in ‘Show’ mode and ‘Move’ mode.
• Improved Text Items
  Now remembers details of last used font, style, & size.
• Updated Pump Results Sheet
  Now includes Pump Suction Pressure and Pump Power
• Updated Pump Save to stand alone file
  Now stores fixed flow and fixed head properties.
• Improved Print resolution for A3 printing.
• Save drawing to EMF metafile format.
• Sort Results Grid data by values in any column.

PipeFlow Expert 2009 has an easy-to-use intuitive user interface, a robust calculation engine and an integrated fluid database with common liquid and gas properties, a pipe database with common pipe materials and sizes, and a fittings database with common valves and tees. It also uses the accurate Darcy-Weisbach method for calculating pipe friction losses (with the Colebrook-White equation for calculating friction factors),

Pipe Flow Expert 2009 supports up to 9 different fluid zones within your pipe system and allows inclusion of pressure regulating valves (PRVs) and back pressure valves (BPVs). The software also comes with a verification document which compares the results produced by Pipe Flow Expert against the known results for over 40 cases of published data.

“Pipe Flow Expert 2009 builds on our extremely easy-to-use piping design interface and provides the user with the ability to produce isometric 3D drawings of their pipe system. ” said David Gardiner of PipeFlow.co.uk.

Users get to see the calculated results on the actual pipe system drawing where the color coding and graphical representation of the piping model gives them an instant visual analysis of their system, the flow rates, the pressure losses, and the operating points of their pumps. Pipes and nodes can be drawn against a color gradient that is specified for a particular calculation, such as the volume of flow in a pipe, the pressure drop in a pipe, the friction loss in a pipe or other results data, making it easy to ‘highlight’ and instantly see any problem areas.

When the user wants to see the calculations in a list, the PipeFlow Expert 2009 results can be viewed in spreadsheet format and exported to Microsoft Excel with one click.

Pipe Flow Expert includes support for simple network licensing, allowing multiple users to run the software from a shared hard disk drive. It is also available on USB Flash Drive, which allows it to be moved between machines via simple “Plug & Play”.

Pipe Flow Expert is used by a wide range of companies and consulting engineers in many different countries; anyone that needs a powerful, easy-to-use program, which they can rely on to calculate flow rates, size pumps, check NPSH, and find pressure losses in a pipe system. You can download a free trial now: Solve the flows and pressure drops in your pipe system with Pipe Flow Expert 2008 (Download Pipe Flow Expert now).

About PipeFlow.co.uk - PipeFlow.co.uk (www.PipeFlow.co.uk) is owned by Daxesoft Ltd, a UK registered company. It has used PipeFlow as a trading name for over 10 years. PipeFlow designs and develops fluid flow and pressure drop calculations software that is used by engineers in over 80 countries worldwide. PipeFlow has over 1000 clients in a variety of industries including aerospace, chemical processing, education, food and beverage, general engineering, mining, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, power generation, water and wastewater processing.

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Today, PipeFlow® launched PipeFlow.com, a new international site that will support their existing PipeFlow.co.uk site. At present the new site simply showcases the PipeFlow® Software programs and provides links back to the appropriate information at PipeFlow.co.uk, however going forward PipeFlow.com will become a main destination for international customers.

PipeFlow® already sells its software in over 80 countries and has more than 1600 unique customers in locations all around the world. Our aim is to provide great software programs with reliable and accurate calculations, at an incredible value-for-money price. You can read what some of our customers think here: PipeFlow Customer Testimonials

PipeFlow Expert 2009 with Isometric 3D Drawing capability is now available and includes:

• Isometric grid for drawing
• Automatic rotation of symbols to look 3D
• Smart text positioning on Isometric grid
• Switch between Isometric view and Normal square grid view
• Easy translation of existing drawings to Isometric View
• Plus a host of other new features such as Mirror, Invert and Rotation of selections

Potential Customers can download PipeFlow Expert for a free trial, see: PipeFlow Software Downloads

There has never been a better time to work smarter, get one-step ahead of your competitors, and increase sales by demonstrating that you and your company are the professional engineers of choice. PipeFlow Expert can help you document your pipe system designs, help you explain the issues of different scenarios to your clients, help you show the operating conditions of their pipe systems and help everyone get a good visual and clear understanding of your proposal.

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Wilmslow, England (PRWEB) July 30, 2008

PipeFlow.co.uk (http://www.pipeflow.co.uk) today announced the release of PipeFlow™ Expert 2008 version 3.11,  a major upgrade to the Microsoft Windows software for designing and analyzing piping systems. Pipe Flow Expert 2008 is a premier software application that models both open and closed loop pipe networks, calculates flow rates, pipe pressure drops, friction losses, pump operating points and much more. For further information see:

http://www.pipeflow.co.uk/public/control.php?_path=/497/738 

Pipe Flow Expert’s standard features include an easy-to-use intuitive user interface, a robust calculation engine that uses the accurate Darcy-Weisbach method for calculating pipe friction losses (with the Colebrook-White equation for calculating friction factors), an integrated fluid database with common liquid and gas properties, a pipe database with common pipe materials and sizes, and a fittings database with common valves and tees.

Pipe Flow Expert 2008 version 3 also supports entry of data in mass flow rate, up to 9 different fluid zones within the pipe system, pressure regulating valves (PRVs), back pressure valves (BPVs), and includes a verification document which compares the results produced by Pipe Flow Expert against the known results for over 40 cases of published data.

“Flow and pressure loss calculations have never been so easy. Our Pipe Flow Expert software has an easy-to-use interface that lets users get up and running immediately. Pipe Flow Expert is simply an ideal software package for anyone who designs, builds, operates or maintains a pipe system. Version 3 provides unbelievable value and gives the user a simple way to analyze and visualize their pipe system, and enables them to easily calculate the fluid flows and pressures in each pipe.” said David Gardiner of PipeFlow.co.uk.

Users get the ability to view the calculated results in spreadsheet format and also on a visual pipe drawing with the pipes and nodes drawn according to a color gradient that is specified against a particular calculation, such as the volume of flow in a pipe, the pressure drop in a pipe, the friction loss in a pipe or other results data. The color coding and graphical representation of the system model provides for an instant visual analysis of the flows and pressures in the pipe system(Pipe Flow Expert visual analysis of flows and pressure drops).

“We get many positive comments on our Pipe Flow Expert interface and we place a high importance on keeping the software easy-to-use, even as we continue to add powerful new features. When you combine our best-in-class interface, value-for-money pricing, and powerful calculation engine, we become a compelling choice for most users.” Gardiner said.

The Pipe Flow Expert software includes support for simple network licensing, allowing multiple users to run the software from a shared hard disk drive, without needing to install any other licensing software. The program is also available on USB Flash Drive and can be moved between machines via simple “Plug & Play”.

Pipe Flow Expert is used by a variety of engineers and companies, from individual design consultants through to large middle east oil companies; anyone that needs a powerful, straightforward tool, which they can rely on to calculate flow rates, size pumps, check NPSHa, and find pressure losses in a pipe system. A free trial is available now: Solve the flows and pressure drops in your pipe system with Pipe Flow Expert 2008 (Download Pipe Flow Expert now).

About PipeFlow.co.uk - PipeFlow.co.uk (www.PipeFlow.co.uk) is owned by Daxesoft Ltd, a UK registered company. It has used PipeFlow as a trading name for over 10 years. PipeFlow designs and develops fluid flow and pressure drop calculations software that is used by engineers in over 70 countries worldwide. PipeFlow has over 1000 clients in a variety of industries including aerospace, chemical processing, education, food and beverage, general engineering, mining, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, power generation, water and wastewater processing.

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Video demonstrations of Pipe Flow Expert, a software package for solving the flows, pressures and pumping requirements in pipe systems have been released by www.pipeflow.co.uk - you can view the videos by visiting the web site and clicking on ‘Pipe Flow Expert’->’Videos’

Video 1 gives an introduction to the features and functionality of Pipe Flow Expert, demonstrating the simple user interface while showing off the robust calculation engine thats allows a user to solve the pressure losses and fluid flow rates throughout a pipe system.

Video 2 describes a classic Three Reservoir Problem, where flow occurs in separate pipes from two elevated reservoirs, until the two pipes join at a common point at a particular elevation and from this point the fluid moves down a third pipe to a base reservoir. The question asked is ‘What flow will occur under gravity in each pipe in the system and what is the total flow rate that will be delivered to the base reservoir?’.

While this sounds like a simple problem, it is not easy to solve by hand calculations since the flow and pressures in the system must be balanced at all points and as the flow increases in one pipe so does the friction loss in the pipe, which means that the flow joining this pipe is then changed because there is more resistance to push against. Accurately solving the flows and pressures in even simple pipe networks where flows join together is a difficult problem - unless you have the right software, such as Pipe Flow Expert, which then does make it an easy task.

Video 3 shows how to find the pump head required to move water at 200 US gpm between two tanks at different elevations. One tank is located at 0 ft elevation and the other tank is located at an elevation of 280 ft and the tanks are connected by a series of pipes that contain a number of bends and fittings. The system is easily modelled in Pipe Flow Expert and the required pump head is calculated instantly.

PipeFlow expect to add more videos over the coming weeks to show how Pipe Flow Expert can be used to model and solve a wide variety of general hydraulic problems that may be encountered by a process engineer. 

The videos are also available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/pipeflowsoftware 

Pipe Flow Expert is used by people worldwide in many different industries, ranging from individual consultant engineers through to large multi-national companies.

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PipeFlow.co.uk today released a 40 plus page case study that compares the flow and pressure loss calculation results produced by their Pipe Flow Expert software against the published results data for the modelled systems, which comes from a number of well respected sources. In all 40 plus cases the Pipe Flow Expert results compared very favorably.

The full verification document, including a brief description of each system modelled and a tabulated comparison of the Pipe Flow Expert results against published results, can be downloaded from the following web page:

Pipe Flow Expert Calculation Results Verification

It can be shown that the Pipe Flow Expert calculation results agree with the fundamental equations for flows and head losses in pipe networks by checking the results against the flow continuity equations and the conservation of energy equations that follow pressure losses around loops in a pipe system.

Potential users of Pipe Flow Expert are invited to review the results verification document to satisfy themselves that calculations produced by Pipe Flow Expert match the expected results.

Pipe Flow Expert can be downloaded for a free trial and any questions can be emailed to info@pipeflow.co.uk

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