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November 14, 2007

Butterfly Valve, Ball Valve, Plug Valve Description


When word gets around about your command of Butterfly Valve, Ball Valve, Plug Valve facts, others who need to know about Butterfly Valve, Ball Valve, Plug Valve will start to actively seek you out.

Type of Valve

Item Description for the

Material Specification

 

Other Information Specified in the

Technical Specification

 

Butterfly Valve

1. Body Material

2. Lining Material

3. Disc Material

4. Shaft Material

5. Rating of Valve

6. Shape - Bolted Gland, BG

7. Type - Lug, Double Flanged, Wafer

8. End Connections - Flangeless (Wafer)

- Single Flange (Lug) - Type of Facing

- Double Flanged - Type of Facing

9. Seat

10. Fire Testing

11. Design Code

12. Operation - Wrench or Gear

13. High Performance or Not

14. Drain Connection (if Client specifies)

 

1. Flange Facing Finish

2. Gasket and Packing

3. Gland Bolting

4. Lockable Device

5. Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

 

 

Ball Valve

1. Body Material

2. Trim Material (Ball and Stem)

3. Seat Ring Material

4. Rating of Valve

End Connections - Buttweld Connections

- Threaded

- Socketwelding

- Flanged - Type of Facing

5. Design Code

6. Type - Floating

- Trunnion

7. Port Size - Reduced

- Full

- Regular

9. Fire Testing

10. Operation - Wrench or Gear

 

1. Flange Facing Finish

2. Gasket and Packing

3. Gland Bolting

4. Lockable Device

5. Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

 

Plug Valve

1. Body Material

2. Plug Material

3. Rating of Valve

4. Type - Lubricated or Non-lubricated

5. Seat

6. End Connections - Welding Ends - Bore

- Flanged - Type of Facing

7. Design Code

8. Shape - BC-BG (Bolted Cover, Bolted Gland)

9. Fire Test

10. Pattern - short, regular, venturi, or full bore

11. Operation - Wrench or Gear

12. Anti-Friction Lined or Not

1. Gland Bolting

2. Cover Bolting

3. Anti-static Feature and testing

4. Lockable Device

5. Stem Seal or Packing Material

6. Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

 

 

 

 

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November 15, 2007

tools of the trade

 AutoCAD Blocks 

To download, simply click, save to your hard drive and unzip.


Calculation

conversion calculator - Conversion Calculator fom http://www.engnetglobal.com .. download, then hit open to install it on your pc

convert - convert liters to pints, inches to light years etc, download and unzip

Code

Codes & Standards - New pages packed with piping codes & standards … a library at your fingertips

Equipments

Tank volume and weight calculations - tank volume and weights …. no surprise there, excel format

Fittings

asme fittings - pdf document fittings guide for asme bpe fittings. supplied by ROR

biotech asme bpe fittings - STERiBORE & STERiLEX 10 Tubes, Dimensions & Chemical Composition, courtesy of Global Stainless Ltd

dockweiler SS fittings - dockweiler SS fittings tables in excel

fittings 1 - pdf format fittings guide

fittings 2 - pdf format fittings guide

FRP fittings - Fibre Reinforced Pipe fittings tables in excel

Pipe and vessel data - all the piping info you need, without lugging the folders around, download and unzip

Flanges

Flange Data - Flange catalogue from containing useful flange data. with the kind permission of Texas Flange. (www.texasflange.com)

Flange and valve pressure Vs Temperature Ratings - A Microsoft Excel Worksheet of the pressure temperature limits of various Piping Flanges and Valves. Kindly given by Dennis Kirk Engineering

Flange info - A link to a page about flanges, quite a good overview to explain what they are to the layman.

General
Agency Database - Find an agent in your country

contract - standard contract for services

glossary - A - Z of piping abbreviations at your fingertips

Piping

Lined Pipe - pdf format line pipe info

overview of process piping - overview of process piping systems. pdf document from http://www.asme.org

pipe chart - info on pipe weights, wall thickness etc

pipe spacing chart - 150#, 300#, 600# up to 24" - Thanks to Mark (pdf format)

pipe spacing chart (welded) - what it says

pipe spacing chart (150# flanged) - same as, except flanged

Pipe Spans - Excel file with pipe spans, full, empty, insulated and differing schedules.

U.S. Army piping manual - PDF File, it's exactly what it says it is.

Valve

Learn about Valves - Links to a great site to learn about Gate, Globe and Check valves.

Source: http://www.pipingdesigners.com/Tools.htm

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November 17, 2007

Chemical Engineering Software

Pressure Drop via the Karman Method
Mr. Daan Le Roux of SASOL shares his spreadsheet based on the Karman pressure drop method as featured in the June 2006 edition of CEP Magazine.
 
Chemical Plant Cost Estimation
Ever wonder what really goes into estimating the cost of a world scale chemical production facility?  Here is a sample of such a spreadsheet used for a project in India.  Build your own from this sample which includes virtually all of the economics that need to be considered.
 
2005 MS Excel Spreadsheet Competition
These are some of the best entries received during the 2005 spreadsheet competition:

Steam Tracing (Winner)
Vapor Pressure from Antoine Coefficients
Column Diameter and HETP Calculation
Packed Column Scrubber Design
Reactor Particle Size and Velocity Calculation
Condensate Line Sizing

 
Two Phase Flow in Pipes
Download this easy to use spreadsheet to estimate pressure losses in pipes with two-phase flow.
 
Various Chemical Engineering Calculation Spreadsheets
Zip file with Excel spreadsheets including calculations such as: unsteady state heat transfer, horizontal vessel calibration data, catenary equations, compressible flow calculations, cone and circle geometry, control valve sizing, dewpoints of acidic gases, duct calculations, orifice sizing, packed scrubber design, flat plate deflections, pump performances, and rectangular weir flow.  These spreadsheet provided by Mr. Neil Stone of Esco Engineering.
 
Filtration Spreadsheets from Dr. Richard Holdich
Calculations include specific surface area, compressible cake at constant pressure, compressible cake at constant flow, power law equation, pressure leaf clarification costing, and rotary vacuum filtration.  Complete with documentation.   Files are in Excel format, download as a zip file.
 
Vessel Pressure via the SRK Equation of State
Use this Excel spreadsheet to find the pressure inside a vessel via the SRK equation of state (EOS).  Brought to you by the Direction of Software Corner, Somak Mukherjee
 
Fired Furnace Excess Air Calculation
Calculate the excess air volume required for a hydrocarbon furnace with the Orsat analysis.  Excel spreadsheet provided by the Direction of Software Corner, Somak Mukherjee
 
Financial Calculation Spreadsheet
You know what a chore it is to optimize a chemical process and get to the bottom line.  Then you make some changes and have to do it all over again.  Here a great spreadsheet that should ease you pain substantially!
 
Water Properties Program
Download this small helper program so that you have the properties of water at your fingertips.  The link above is a direct link to the executable file.  This program was graciously donated the Resource Page by Pablo Coronel at pcorone@unity.ncsu.edu
 
Physical Properties DataBank AddIn for Excel
This Excel AddIn contains a moderate databank of chemicals and a nice array of physical properties.  It also contains Excel functions that can be pasted into worksheets (be sure you have one open first).  You'll find the AddIn under the Tools menu.
 
Units Conversions
These handy little programs are just about everywhere.  There a good and bad side to this one.  The bad side is that is runs in DOS, the good side is that it shows many different conversions at once.
 
The Reactor Lab
A fantastic program designed to help students gain a better understanding of reactor simulations…and best of all….it's free!
 
Insulation Calculation Programs
Two programs included to help you with insulation calculations.  The "Economic Thickness Calculator" will recommend the appropriate insulation thickness based on energy savings.  The "Insulated Pipe Temperature Prediction Spreadsheet" will help you predict the temperature inside a pipe and linear heat loss.
 
Vapor Pressure of Binary Liquid Mixtures
Use this spreadsheet to find the vapor pressure of binary liquid mixtures.   Based on fugacity corrected values from Antoines Law, this spreadsheet give accurate results with minimal inputs.
 
Physical Property Data Spreadsheet
This spreadsheet for Excel 97 contains data such as boiling and freezing points, critical data, density, vapor and liquid heat capacities, liquid viscosity, vapor pressures, and more for 468 chemicals.
 
Cooling Tower Calculator
This handy little DOS program will calculate the tower characteristic or cold water temperature for a given cooling tower with just a few inputs.  (See Cooling Tower article here at the "Resource Page")
 
Pipe Size Optimization for Carbon and Stainless Steel Pipes
This simple spreadsheet will calculate the most economical pipe diameter for a system based on flowrate, fluid density, and fluid viscosity.  The sheet is to be used for turbulent flow in carbon or stainless steel pipes.  It is designed to run on Excel 97 or higher and utilizes the Solver function so it must be installed as well.
 
Validating Binary VLE Data
Check the thermodynamic consistency of your binary VLE data with this easy to follow analysis.  Complete with spreadsheet to save you time!
 
Costing Distillation Columns
Enter some basic data and this EXCEL ADD-IN will do the rest.  Check out the specifications of the program.

Source:http://www.cheresources.com/software.shtml

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November 16, 2007

Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger Design 1.5.0

1) Step by step design and rating calculations
2) Estimate the Physical properties of more than 1450 components; the database has the ability to estimate Thermal Conductivity, Density, Heat Capacity and Viscosity. The database also included critical properties, boiling and melting points.
3) Estimate mixture properties. (ALL ESTIMATION METHODS CURRENTLY SUPPORT LIQUIDS ONLY)
4) Integrated customised database functions to allow user to add/delete components.
5) Fixed tube sheet counts and general tube sizes tables
6) Ability to import properties to Shell/Tube sides form Microsoft Excel
7) Export Results summary to Microsoft Excel
8) Ability to calculate unknown shell or tube side temperatures by iteration method (solving by trial and error) - also calculate unknown exit temperatures in rating mode.
9) Also can select from different correlations to calculate shell or tube heat transfer coefficient
10) Calculate the scale resistance (dirt factor)
11) Shell/Tube side Reynolds & Nusselt numbers
12) Baffle number and spacing
13) Recommended minimum shell thickness, minimum recommended number & diameter of rods.
14) Calculate Shell/Nozzle/Channel/Head/Tubesheet Thickness.
15) Support S.I Units and English (U.S) Units of mesurement.
16) Duty Calculation
17) Overall heat transfer coefficient for both Clean and Fouled conditions
18) Shell/Tube velocities.
19) Number of transfer units, Effectiveness, Thermal capacity ratio
20) Pumping power / Inlet and Exit Nozzles pressure losses / Scale resistance Calculators
21) Save/Load results.
22) Generate/Print a summary of results.

Product homepage: http://www.webbusterz.com

Download Demo:  www.webbusterz.com

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November 13, 2007

Pressure Vessel & Heat Exchanger Mechanical Design Software

PVX - 2007 (formerly SnapCAD.Exchanger) provides an amazing flexibility when designing and rating ASME pressure vessels, TEMA/ASME heat exchangers and interconnecting piping. PVX - 2007 helps you build and optimize designs faster and more efficient than ever before.

More than just a "Calculator"
The unique architecture behind the
PVX - 2007 platform ensures that each part of a vessel or exchanger is designed to perfectly match its environment. Real-time ASME code calculations, 3D SOLID modeling and fully customizable reports and drawings speeds up both the design and manufacturing process. Costly problems can be caught and corrected in any stage of the conceptual or final mechanical design.

Thermal Design Import
Existing shell and tube heat exchanger thermal designs can easily be imported from thermal design software programs such as HTRI's Xist, AspenTech's
STX and TASC.

Solid Model Export
PVX - 2007 can automatically create 3D SOLID models for use in plant design software or for creating detailed drawings with any major CAD software. PVX's solid models are fully compatible with

  • AutoCAD
  • Solid Edge
  • Solid Works
  • Inventor
  • AutoPlant
  • SmartPlant 3D
  • Pro/e
  • IntelliCAD
  • and any other major CAD program.

DWG Drawings:
The scaled 3D solid models, templates and calculated data created in PVX can be directly incorporated into DWG and other drawing formats.

PVX - 2007 significantly reduces design and drafting time of pressure vessels and shell and tube heat exchangers!


Contact htcsoftware  for a fully functional free trial version!

More details, go to http://www.htcsoftware.com/

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G&P Engineering Software

You are invited to download any of the fully functional trial versions or free ware of G&Papplications now!  Converting the trial download to an unlimited use version is easily performed by entering a key code after registering the software (performed on-line)! 
You will find that all applications were developed for ease of use and uncompromised accuracy…allowing users to focus on their work and not on their software.

Downloads

Download PhysProps (11 MB) 14-Day Trial VersionZDNet Editor's Choice: 5-Star Award!PhysProps:  A pure component, physical property data base application.

Download MixProps (10 MB) 14-Day Trial VersionMixProps: A two phase vapor-liquid equilibrium, thermophysical property calculator.

Download EngVert (5 MB) 14-Day Trial VersionZDNet Editor's Choice: 4-Star Award!EngVert:  Unit conversions, steam properties, and general engineering tools!

Download PipeDrop (8 MB) 14-Day Trial VersionPipeDropA liquid, gas, and 2-phase flow pressure drop calculator.

Download PsychroCalc (2 MB) 14-Day Trial VersionPsychroCalc (FREEWARE): A psychrometric property, "system tray" tool!

Download StmProps (2 MB) 14-Day Trial VersionStmProps:  An IFC-1967, IFC-1997 steam property, "system tray" calculator!

Source: http://www.gpengineeringsoft.com/pages/products.html

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November 15, 2007

Utility Software

CoolPack CoolPack is a collection of simulation programs related to refrigeration. It consists of "Refrigeration Utilities", "EESCoolTools", and a transient element called "Dynamic".
Created by Univ. of Denmark
WSProps WSProps is an excellent free program to calculate the properties of water and steam for temperature ranging from 273.16°K to 1273° and pressures up to 10000 bar. WSProps can be used in routine thermodynamic calculations as well as steam turbine design and simulation.
Created by Open Source
Flange Design ASME Code, Section VIII, Div. 1, Appendix \"Y\" Flange Design Program. Flat Faced Flanges With Metal-To-Metal Contact Outside the Bolt Circle.

Programmed in a template form, for class 1 and category 1, Appendix \"Y\" flange assembly.
The program runs in MathCad 2000 or later.
All the flange factors (i.e. F, V, FL, VL, f, T, U, Y & Z) are calculated internally.
Created by William Rowell
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Engineering Power Tools A program that does calculations for all those commonly stumbled upon mechanical and electrical components, material properties, structural data, bending stresses and all.It is a shareware and can be used for a period of 30 days after which it is required to be registered. The "Save" function is crippled. @1MB
Created by Engineering Power Tools
Energy Conversion A demo for Energy converting systems, also for Power and Propulsion systems. However the demo version is crippled to allow only the following options to be functional. Under Thermodynamic properties only Enthalpy and pressure are functional From the Power cycles only the Brayton cycle is active. Power cycle components, only combustion by Oil/Coal. From compressible flow only Normal Shock and Thrust. @3.5MB
Created by EngWare
Archon 20 demo mechanical engineering programs . Can be used for rountine calculations of bending/buckling loads, thread loads, plates etc. They are Windows based and have a lot of useful features active, a few utilities though may be crippled.
Created by Archon Engineering
Convert An exhaustive Units Conversion freeware for 22 different technical quantities such as power, pressure, speed, torque, force, area, energy, distance etc.
Created by Josh Madison
FLUIDTOOLS Tools for imcompressible liquid and compressible gas flow. The demo is restricted to solve for a max diameter of 1.5inch.
Created by Phelps Software
Turbine Steam-Consumption Calcu