Autopipe vessel guide 1-5

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4 AutoPIPE Vessel

Introduction 9

About AutoPIPE Vessel 9

Hardware requirement 11

Modules components 12

Installation and Licensing 14

Organization information 14

Managing your data 15

Item identification 15

Automatic Drawing identification 16

AutoPIPE Vessel philosophy 19

Vessels and components handled by AutoPIPE Vessel 19

Individual calculation 19

Chimneys 19

Pressure Vessel 20

Shell and Tubes exchangers 20

Air Cooler 21

Project specification 21

AutoPIPE Vessel Preference 23

Default Path Page 23

Tips : 23

Default Values Page 24

Drawing Page 24

Drawings customization 24

Starting AutoPIPE Vessel Sketcher 25

Using the help 26

Searching for a material name 26

Working with drawings 26

Starting a specification 27

Vessel specification 27

Formal specification 27

Project specification 28

Saving a specification 28

Using AutoPIPE Vessel Sketcher 29

Using AutoPIPE Vessel Review 31

Creating new Pressure Vessel 33



Table of content

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Step 1 – Process data and vessel body. 33

Step 2 – Adding Nozzles 42

Step 3 – Calculation and review 51

Step 4 – Creates drawing 52

Step 5 –

Bill of material and Estimate 55

Creating new Shell & Tubes Heat Exchanger 57

Step 1 – Process data and vessel body 57

Step 2 – Calculation and review 80

Step 3 – Creates drawing 81

Step 4 – Bill of material and Estimate 83

Air Cooler 85

Starting a banc 85

How to 95

Insert flanges 95

Add flanges 97

Insert a cone 104

Optimize the width of the reinforcement pad 105

Locate the shell inlet or outlet close of the flange for Shell & Tubes 105

Get the minimum shell diameter with several passes on the tube side 105

Change an intermediate head orientation 105

Define new chamber in a vessel 106

How to build a jacketed vessel 106

Support vessel on brackets with diameter larger than 1500 mm 107

Change Company and Country data preference 107

Material Database 108

Add or modify material properties 108

Query the database 109

Execute flat development pattern 111

Use my CAD Software 111

Undo a change 111

Comment a Vessel Image 111

Change a vertical vessel to an horizontal 111

Fatigue Analysis 113

Step 1 – Cycles Description 113

Step 2 – Seams Weld Description 115



6 AutoPIPE Vessel

Step 3 – Add Default detail 116

Introduction to Estimate 119

Generalities 119

Preference 121

Bill of Material 122

Create 122

Add, insert, delete 122

Component properties 122

Save and open 124

Customization 125

Password 125

Tag and designation 125

Material properties 125

Task code 126

Manufacturing schedule 126

Customization language of AutoPIPE Vessel Estimate 129

Calculation and results 131 Trace Debug File 131

Bill of Material and Estimate resume 132

Excel Interface 133

Excel template 133

Word Interface 133

Word template 133

Using Import 135

Export a Nozzle List 136

Thermal Design Interface 139

HTRI Xchanger Interface 139

Aspen TASC Interface 140

AutoPIPE Vessel - PDS 3D Interface 141

Equipment creation phase 142

Nozzle Orientation Phase 143

Installation 144

Components Installation through PDS : 144

Nozzle Neutral File 145

Introduction and compilation of user functions : 146

Usage 147

Eden (.eqp) and Tutorial data File (.tdf) creation : 147

Compiling files .eqp and .tdf 148

Placing the Equipment In the PDS Equipment model : 150

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