AFT xStreamReportingModelingFeatures
Reporting Features
- Organize your design variants, operating conditions, existing infrastructure and expansions into a single file with Scenario Manager
- Batch run operating scenarios and export your results to Excel
- Easily compare design variant input to isolate changes between systems
- Quickly review model input from a schematic
- Compare transient response in different operating scenarios on a single graph
- Customize and organize parameters to isolate relevant information
- Report in multiple units, which can be updated without re-running your model
- Filter your results to identify areas of concern
- Export or copy results to Excel for further analysis
- Use design alerts to quickly identify parameters outside of allowable tolerances
- Report parameters section by section in your model
- Save time with report-ready graphs
- Manage graph items and templates to re-use and compare different system set-ups
- Graph or animate parameters along a pipe length to see pressure and flow transmission
- Graph multiple parameters over time to understand system cause-and-effect
- Integrate flowrates to measure total flow over time
- Visually associate parameter results with locations in the system
- Color code your system to reflect parameter result range
- Color animate pipes in your system to see transient behavior in context
Modeling Features
- Usability and Convenience
- Pipes and Components
- Fluid Properties
- System Interaction
- Transient Specific
- Select pipe materials, sizes, type and schedule from built-in or custom databases
- Use built-in handbook data and heuristics for common component losses, embedded into pipes for visual simplicity
- Collect and catalogue common component and pipes into custom libraries
- Reduce redundant specification by importing your model file
- Draw your model as an isometric or on top of an aerial photography background
- Quickly make changes to common pipes and components with Global Edit
- Model component losses with Cv, K, Kv, or resistance curves
- Take control over your flow and pressure with control valves, determining valve position, capacity, and failure response
- Utilize reactionary components like check valves, relief valves, and vacuum breaker valves to confirm your system response
- Model relief valve protection, both internal or venting to atmosphere
- Display effective Cv and K factor values for all valves in the system
- Use built-in fluid databases or create your own to calculate properties
- Mix it up with fluid mixures in NIST REFPROP or the add-on Chempak database
- Refine your real gas modeling with equations of state (Redlich-Kwong, Three Parameter, Ideal Gas, Interpolation)
- Account for changes in composition, density, and viscosity with pipe specific fluid properties
- Utilize reactionary components like check valves, relief valves, and vacuum breaker valves to confirm your system response
- Model where your system sonically chokes and determine the resulting losses
- Induce a transient response through a valve change, pressure change, pump changes and more!
- Use event logic to model interacting components in control systems
- Calculate and export forces for pipe stress analysis
- Size, locate, and test surge supression equipment like accumulators, relief valves, and vacuum breaker valves
- Consider variable friction modeling with large flow rate changes
- Use valve characteristic curves to capture specific valve response
- Use pulsation analysis to determine and analyze excitable frequencies (with add-on module)