Initial vs. Life Cycle Cost Optimization
By optimizing on initial cost or life cycle cost of any specified duration, AFT Mercury provides the power of informed decision making in developing your optimal piping or ducting system design.

Variable Frequency Drive vs. Control Valve Analysis
The true relative costs of VFD’s vs control valves can only be determined by comparing systems optimized for each case, a task quickly done using AFT Mercury.

System Balancing through Optimal Sizing of
Pipe and Duct Sizes
AFT Mercury can automatically determine line sizes to achieve inherent system flow balance resulting in significant reductions in pumping costs by minimizing throttling losses in flow control devices.

Optimize Over Multiple Design Cases
Imagine the impact of determining piping, ducting and component sizes to minimize cost while insuring performance requirements are met for one or more off-design cases. Or perhaps you need to concurrently optimize for alternate operating scenarios such as two pump operation in the summer and one pump operation in the winter? Optimization of these real world system requirements are all within AFT Mercury’s capabilities.

Optimal Pump Sizing
More than just accurately defining pump head and suction requirements, AFT Mercury will automatically determine the optimum trade off between pipe size selection and the resulting impact on pump capacity requirements and cost.

Understand What Really Drives Your Design
Piping and ducting systems typically have to meet a variety of requirements whose complex interaction makes it difficult to see their relative impact. Comparison of optimized results for differing constraints with AFT Mercury will clearly show this impact providing you valuable insight into what’s important in your system design.