Cost-effective and accurate design for safe operation:

• By automating workflows and providing comprehensive global codes and loadings, AutoPIPE Vessel saves engineers time and enhances the quality of design and analysis.
• The software facilitates the evaluation of alternatives and quick decision-making for loading and manufacturing scenarios, ensuring optimized vessel design and manufacturing.
• Features such as fatigue analysis, pressure testing, automatic drawing production, and cost estimation contribute to providing complete and reliable designs.

Maximized productivity:

• AutoPIPE Vessel delivers accurate and cost-effective designs to ensure safe vessel operation under various loading conditions, whether for brownfield or greenfield projects.
• It supports material standards and a wide range of design codes, enhancing flexibility for revamping existing vessels.
• The software reduces design time, eliminates rework, and is user-friendly, enabling engineers to start quickly and efficiently.

Improved collaboration:

• The unified workflow from data handover to operations and maintenance promotes efficient collaboration among project team members.
• Integration with plant design applications like AutoPLANT and PDS streamlines data sharing and enhances design coherence.
• Features such as referencing piping models and importing nozzle loads from AutoPIPE, as well as direct export to IFC and ISM file types, facilitate seamless collaboration and data exchange across platforms.

Pressure Vessels:

• Types include reactor on skirt, limped coil, column or vertical vessel on support brackets or legs or skirt, horizontal vessel on saddle, double jacket, or boiler.
• Seven international vessel design codes supported, including ASME VIII Division 1 & 2, GB-150, BS PD 5500, EN 13445, AD Merkblatter, CODAP, and GOST R 52857.
• Jacket design supported by ASME VIII Appendix 9, PD 5500, CODAP, and GOST.
• Nozzle reinforcement and flange design to major global standards, including EN 13445 Annex G/EN 1591.
• Full fatigue analysis of welded components to ASME VIII, PD 5500, CODAP, ADM, GOST, and EN 13445.

Optimized Design:

• Evaluation of erected, lifting, operating, test, and shutdown loading conditions.
• Automatic detailed cost estimations (fully customizable in Excel).
• Automatic drawing production for 2D drawings in MicroStation and AutoCAD, and 3D models in MicroStation, AutoCAD, and Solidworks.
• Fully dimensioned engineering and manufacturing drawings.

Additional Features:

• Comprehensive import from and export to 3D CAD formats, including PDS, MicroStation, AutoCAD, AutoPLANT, and Solidworks.
• U.S. customary and SI units supported.
• QA formatted Microsoft Word reports for all designed components.
• Interface to NC machines for machine plate fabrication.
• Standard nozzle load tables available.
• Comprehensive material databases for various standards, including ASME, DIN, EN, GB-150, BS, GOST, ASTM, and NF.
• Multiple codes supported for occasional loading, including wind, vortex shedding, seismic, wave, and blast loading.

Processor: Pentium III or higher

Operating System:

• Windows 7 Professional (32- or 64-bit)
• Windows 8 or 8.1 (32- or 64-bit)
• Windows 10 (32- or 64-bit)

Software:

• Microsoft Office 2003 or higher
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or higher

Memory: 256 MB RAM

Hard Disk: 1 GB

Video Graphics Card: Any industry-standard video card that supports OpenGL 3D graphics