Piping Systems FluidFlow3 - Design and Simulation Software
A truly original software program for the design and optimization of pipe networks, transporting compressible, incompressible, gas-liquid two phase, settling slurries or non-Newtonian fluids.
The efficient and accurate modelling of your networks is essential for the design of energy efficient, safe, reliable flow systems that are easy to operate and maintain.
This product is used successfully in many diverse industries to model new and existing systems, size pipes, select boosters, controllers and other fluid equipment.
Please take a few minutes to discover why we are best in class.
The tools within FluidFlow3 enable you to:- Build your networks rapidly
[2 min] - Evaluate the results and consider design alternatives [5 min]
- Communicate your design effectively to others [1 min]
- Ignore Heat Loss/Gain
- Fixed Temperature Change
- Fixed Transfer Rate
- Do Heat Transfer Calculation
For pipes, the software can also calculate heat loss/gain from the pipe. Pipes can be insulated with different types of materials using any thickness. Convection, conduction and radiation losses are calculated. This means you can use FluidFlow to optimize energy use by selecting the economic insulation thickness.
FluidFlow can model shell and tube exchangers, plate exchangers, coils and autoclaves.
The example opposite shows the heat loss from a 1 kilometer length of uninsulated pipe.
There are over 300 QA example calculations made before each release of FluidFlow. This is one of the verification heat transfer calculation examples.
An example circuit showing 2 heat exchangers with full modelling of both the shell and tubeside. Usually modelling of one side is sufficient.
Several Pressure Loss correlations can be used including: Deleware method, using manufacturers loss data, or using a fixed pressure loss.
With the 2-phase module you can also consider condensors and evaporators.
This network, shows how FluidFlow is used by a customer to model a chilled water cooling system in a Data Centre. Modelling of what happens due to pump failures is also considered in this model.
We have many other customers who model chiller circuits and/or district heating circuits using FluidFlow.
One customer has sucessfully modelled the chiller system for Heathrow Airport and another the storage tank heating system at Europoort. Both networks contain over 5000 pipes and node and solve in a few minutes.
