Popular Functions Include:
- Predict settling velocity and onset of deposition
- Prevent plugged pipes and misapplied pumps
- Reduce energy usage
- Improve system performance
- Reduce operating and maintenance costs
The module does the heavy lifting for you:
- Accommodate a wide range of slurry data
- Enter properties of solids particles and keep them in a sharable database
- Display special output reports with im, jm, settling velocity, slurry volume, mass flows and other slurry specific parameters
- Evaluate multiple design and operating cases using Scenario Manager
- Generate special slurry system curves, critical to understanding important system velocity limits
- Use state-of-the-art correlations to predict flow, pressure drop and reduced pump performance when pumping solids
- De-rate pumps
Modeling Features:
- Specify Slurries:
- Basic Water Slurry Input – uses water as the carrier fluid and treats all pipes as isothermal
- Advanced Slurry Input – use any fluid as the carrier fluid, allow slurry properties to vary among pipes, and allow heat transfer and system energy balance calculation
- Choose from three slurry calculation methods:
- Minimal – can be used in the preliminary design phase
- Simplified – additional information is required and gives a better solution
- Detailed – (default) provides the most rigorous solution methodology
- Select excess pressure vs. velocity data to calculate a slurry’s M parameter
- Pump Performance:
- Choose from two pump slurry de-rating methods
- – ANSI/HI Standard 12.1-12.6-2016 method
- – Warman method
- Calculate system head loss
- Generate pump vs. system curves for single or multiple pumps that answer key questions:
- – At what flow will deposition begin?
- – When will increasing head with decreasing flow occur?
- Choose from two pump slurry de-rating methods
AFT Software Add-On Modules
Settling Slurry (SSL)
Models the effects of pumping fluids containing settling solids using the Wilson/GIW method.
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Goal Seek & Control (GSC)
Significantly reduce your iterations. Identify input parameters that yield desired output values and simulate control functions.
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Extended Time SImulation (XTS)
Models dynamic system behavior and how critical system parameters vary over time.
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Automated Network Sizing (ANS)
Evaluates the complex interaction of system variables to reveal combinations of cost savings.
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Pulsation Frequency Analysis (PFA)
Helps identify pipe acoustical frequencies to avoid resonance from excitations.
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