PIPE-FLO Advantage Version 17.0.49683 Release Notes
PIPE-FLO® Advantage Version 17.0.49683 Release Notes
Released on 12/16/2019
These Release Notes apply to the new PIPE-FLO® Advantage program and incorporates the changes made to PIPE-FLO® Professional v17.0.
Advantage v17.0 Release Notes
PIPE-FLO® Advantage 17 is the new parent program in the PIPE-FLO® Family of software. PIPE-FLO® Advantage offers the following features not available in the other programs in the PIPE-FLO® Family:
- Perform a compressible analysis on gas systems using isentropic and adiabatic relationships and an incompressible analysis on liquid systems in the same model.
- Model Compressors and Blowers
- Size a pipeline using a mach number sizing criteria
- Import a PIPE-FLO Compressible 2007 .pipc file
Key Highlights
- Ability to model 6 new piping system devices:
- Compressors (Advantage only)
- Blowers (Advantage only)
- Compressible Pipe (Advantage only)
- Pressure Relief Device in accordance with ISO 4126 standard
- Reducer device for pipe size changes
- Fan device that allows copy/paste into its performance curve data table
- Combined Sizing devices with Designed Devices (Sizing Valve and Sizing Pump)
- Additional Operating Modes for Pumps & Control Valves
- Added a "Design Status" field to all devices to quickly see the status using Color Gradients
- Performance increases
New Features
- Ability to model Fans, Pressure Relief Devices, and Reducers
- Ability to model Blowers, Compressors, and Compressible Pipes in Advantage
- Copy / Paste into device performance curve data table
- Hover over the label of a device calculation in the Property Grid displays the raw calculated value of the result
- Added a "Design Status" field to all devices to quickly see the status using Color Gradients
- Additional Operating Modes for Pumps & Control Valves
- Import a PIPE-FLO Compressible 2007 .pipc file (Advantage only)
Improvements / Changes to Features
- Pipe
- added Darcy limitation warnings based on Pressure Drop Ratio and Mach Number for gas applications
- group edit "Reverse Flow Direction" with multiple pipes selected using Right Click Context Menu
- Pipe Sizing Calculator improvements
- selection of the sizing criteria from the calculator
- additional results to evaluate the selected size
- new Messages section of the calculator dialog
- warning if calculated size is less than the smallest size or greater than the largest size in the Pipe Specification
- size a pipe using a Mach Number sizing criteria (Advantage only)
- calculation of the dP/100 and HL/100 changed to represent only the pipe without installed V&F
- Flow Demand
- limited to the inlet or outlet of a single pipe, can no longer be placed on a node between two pipes
- additional calculated results for static pressure, dynamic pressure, energy grade, and dynamic head
- automatically change the flow demand symbol on the FLO-Sheet to correspond to the direction specified in Flow Type
- Pressure Boundary
- static pressure entry
- additional calculated results for static pressure, dynamic pressure, energy grade, and dynamic head
- changed the "Pressure" design field to an "Operation" design field to allow for total or static pressure entry
- Control Valves and Sizing Valves
- Combined the control and sizing valve devices into one device
- operating modes for a control valve without data are treated as sizing valve modes
- automatically import an old sizing valve as a control valve in a sizing mode
- New Operating Modes: Differential Pressure, Fixed Flow Coefficient, Static Pressure entry
- Combined the control and sizing valve devices into one device
- Centrifugal Pumps and Sizing Pumps
- Combined the centrifugal and sizing pump devices into one device
- New Operating Modes: Differential Pressure, Static Pressure entry
- Copy / Paste into Centrifugal Pump Curve Data Table
- Calculate and display Pump Output Power
- Pipe Specifications
- added min and max Mach Number design limits to trigger warnings
- More hover over Tool Tips for buttons
- Cutting a device re-names the remaining node so that pasting the device retains the original name
- Text Settings
- Added "Vertical Text Down" to Orientation options
- Added Alignment setting (Left, Center, Right)
- Incorporated "Smart" Anchoring
- Over Time Module changes
- Added a new Rules Device Condition to allow comparing one device's design or calculated result to another device's
- New Rules Device Action to modify a device's design data in Increments (addition and subtraction)
- Results graphs data output
- Property Grid interaction
- Hover over calculated result label to display the full precision value
- Ctrl + C on label to copy full precision value and unit
- Color Gradients
- Disable color gradients when disable color button is active
- Removed the solid black line for a pipe when model is colorized
- Adjusted the default color gradients to make intermediate colors more distinct
- Installation of program and files
- Program installed at C:\Program Files\Engineered Software\PIPE-FLO Advantage 17 by default unless otherwise specified
- Projects, Reports, and Tables installed in version-specific folders at C:\Users\Public\Documents\Engineered Software\PIPE-FLO Advantage 17 by default unless otherwise specified
- Catalogs installed at C:\Users\Public\Documents\My Engineering Files\Catalogs by default unless otherwise specified
New Warning Messages
- Added ID 216 to 267 for new devices and features
Bug Fixes
- Prevention of PIPE-FLO crash due to exceptions in the Centrifugal Pump selection module
- Elevation color gradient on a pipe now takes into account the Penetration Height when attached to a Tank
- Pressure color gradient on a pipe now takes into account the Penetration Height when attached to a Tank
- PB 2018-002 Copying non-design case lineups