Thursday, January 19, 2006

From Chemical Engineering Software Part 2

Equipment, Flow, Machinery

Flow Pro 2.0
Low-cost Windows 95/NT hydraulic design software for open channels, orifices, weirs, and sluicegates. Shareware.

HTFS Software Products
Overview on PC and mainframe software from HTFS for modelling industrial heat exchangers: shell & tube, air cooled, compact heat exchangers, fired heaters, pipelines, heat exchanger selections. No demos available.

Intergraph Imagineer Technical
A 32-bit 2D precision design tool for Windows 95 and NT 3.51 or later. Movies and multimedia overview presentations of the program features available for download.

NPS-Nominal Pipe Size
Database of dimensional, weight, and flow information for more than 2500 sizes of standard and specialty pipes and tubes in different materials. Includes a piping calculator to show weight and dimensional data for lengths of pipe in various units. DOS and Windows version. Shareware.

Packed Column Calculator
Hydraulic calculations for the design of new columns or the rating of existing columns with random packings. Includes database of packings. Produces operating diagrams. Shareware for Windows 3.x/9.x/NT from Katmar Software.

PIPESIZE
Is an Excel 97 spreadsheet template. It computes pipe sizes for gases and liquids, estimates heat losses through bare and insulated pipe, and includes database with pipe material dimensions, suggested velocities and insulation conductivities.

PIPENET
Leading the way in fluid flow analysis with transient or steady state, schematic drawing capability, fire protection systems (NFPA), pipe sizing, surge analysis and prevention, hydraulic force calculations

PumpBase - Advanced Pump Selection
Windows 3.1 and '95 software for pump selection. Demo can be downloaded.

SmartDraw
Windows program for drawing flowcharts, technical drawings, business presentations... Shareware.

WinPipeD
A program for calculating hydraulic pressures, temperatures, flow patterns, and liquid holdups in steady multiphase flow in a single pipe. There are two versions: a free basic version for personal, not-for-profit use and a professional version. The name says it: for MS Windows platforms.