Many customers are concerned about verification and validation, perhaps none more so than those in the nuclear industry. Widely used in the nuclear industry, AFT's documentation, software maintenance and notification is a significant benefit to the V&V efforts of these customers in meeting their nuclear quality control requirements.
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AFT welcomes its newest distributor, Autosoftware Technology Co., Ltd. of Taipei, Taiwan. Experienced in supporting sophisticated engineering software, Autosoftware Technology represents a range of software complementary to AFT's flow analysis and modeling software, including pipe stress, structural and CAD tools.
Hickam Airforce Base jet fuel transfer systems transient analysis
Burns & McDonnell of Kansas City, Missouri, recently enlisted AFT's transient analysis expertise to answer a critical operation question for the jet fuel transfer systems at Hickam Airforce Base.
Bill Ory of Bill Ory Engineering had been enlisted to advise on problems experienced with a Texas plant's induced fan oil cooling system. Bill started by building an AFT Fathom model of the cooling system consisting of 130' of 1-1/2" sch40 steel pipe, numerous bends and valves and the oil cooler. While the model verified the design should deliver the required cooling water flow of approximately 45 gpm, field data in conjunction with calibrating the model to this data indicated the cooler was only receiving about 14 gpm. Inspection revealed the problem to be caused by biological fouling in the supply piping.
Flowserve built their Learning Resource Center to provide the equipment, conditions, and expertise students need to experiment, test, modify, and verify the "what ifs" of the tools they use every day in operating and maintaining fluid handling systems. The Learning Resource Center means students receive the kind of training that is not just theory, not just hands-on, but a balanced combination. Students have access to: