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Managing your data

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AutoPIPE Vessel philosophy

Creating a new vessel is very fast when starting with a

Project Specification containing all the Project Rules.

As Pressure Vessels are a collection of components,

individual components can also be designed by

removing or adding any necessary components from a

simple vessel.

Vessel description starts from the left to the right for

horizontal vessel and from bottom to top for vertical.

Default field color has the following meanings :

Red : Shall be fill,

Green : Default value is provided by software,

Yellow : Not necessary unless specific request.

Length is provided from tangent line to tangent line or

flange gasket face.

Information remains true until changed.

Nozzles, trays, packing, gussets are provided in level from the tangent line, so the length of the

skirt can be changed without changing any thing else.

Tips :

Do not forget to change the corrosion allowance of the intermediate head and the following

shell.

A skirt involves anchor chair in the geometry and a conical skirt implies a Bolt circle diameter.

Vessels and components handled by AutoPIPE Vessel

Materials handled by AutoPIPE Vessel are Pressure Vessels, Shell and Tubes Heat Exchangers,

Steel Stack and Air Cooler. AutoPIPE Vessel also performs calculation and drawing of

components as well as local loads and expansion joint

design.

Individual calculation

Geometry (Head, shell, conical transition),

Flanges,

Individual opening reinforcements,

Multiple opening reinforcements,

These calculations are valid for internal / external pressure

for all Pressure Vessel Codes.

Are also in this family, special calculation like:

Local loads according to BS 5500 or WRC B,

Anchors,

Expansion joint,

Saddles for Horizontal vessels,

Tube-sheet layout,

Beam.

Chimneys

This concerns metallic chimney base anchored. The calculation foresees 3 helixes

systematically to 120° to avoid whirlwinds of Karman.

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Pressure Vessel

Horizontal vessel on saddles (2 to 10) with the

possibility of setting an individual stiffness for each

saddle,

Vertical vessel on legs,

Vertical vessel on brackets,

Vertical vessel on skirt.

Vessel can have one to tree chambers with different design

conditions.

Double jacket and limped coil are included in the design.

Vessel presented as template can be transformed by

inserting components such as cone, flange, flange cover…

Shell and Tubes exchangers

Any combination of channel, shell and rear end can be

selected for creating a new shell and tube heat exchanger.

Special consideration is made for floating head single pass as expansion joint below.

Tube-sheet can be extended, avoiding the test ring and

bolted tube-sheet can be internally bolted.

Most of the bundle pass arrangement can be set up to 30

passes.

Longitudinal and transversal bundle layout can be

interactively managed.

U bend can be crossed one to one, two to one or tree to one.

Impingement baffle can be plate or rods.

Sliding rails, sealing strips and tie rods are automatically

located with the possibility to interactively change the

location.

None tubed area as well no tube in window is available.

Disk and doughnut, segmental, double segmental, triple

segmental and support baffle are possible.

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Air Cooler

Forced and Induced draft air cooler with conical, pyramidal, box transition including steel

structure description and drawing without the steel structure design.

Plug header, flanged cover plate, stud cover plate and bonnet header are designed according to

ASME VIII as rectangular box with or without stiffener plate.

Bundle layout is done preserving the necessary space for shaft of induced draft.

Up to 4 Bundles per bay, grouping bays in Unit and Units in Banc.

Project specification

This is not a vessel but the project rules common to several vessels such as wind, seismic

conditions, head type, floating head style…

Any new vessel created within the same project directory will get by inheritance the project

data.

You should also consider having a Config directory in your Project directory to take advantage

of the customization per customer.

AutoPIPE Vessel preference

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AutoPIPE Vessel Preference

AutoPIPE Vessel properties are maintained in the Windows registry database.

To understand how to customize your preference such as Editor, Unit System, Language, CAD

Software, style of report, drawing option, select File and Preference in the AutoPIPE Vessel

Sketcher menu.

Default Path Page

Customizable Files Directory Config, is intended to store your customizable files.

The User can create a Config i.e. Database File Directory in each Project Directory. This

enables customization of partial or complete Database for a specific Project.

Please note : the Software initially attempts to open the file in the same directory of the actual

Vessel data before going to the default.

Tips :

Even using an RTF format for our report edition, we recommend using Word.

To Setup the CAD software to Microstation, SolidWorks or Autocad , select your CAD

software and then use the Browse button to find the exe file.

When using Autocad, SolidWorks or Microstation, automatic drawing generation shall locally

start the software.

One workstation need to be AutoCAD Full to generate drawings, other users may use

AutoCAD LT to modify them.