Intelligence. Whether your goal is to minimize first or life cycle cost,
it's a key ingredient in the design of cost effective piping and ducting
systems. AFT Mercury, powered by IntelliFlow, is the first software product
to offer the piping systems engineer intelligent, automated sizing of system
piping, ducting and components to achieve this goal. With comprehensive
system modeling capabilities, a flexible graphical interface and an advanced
optimization engine, AFT Mercury with IntelliFlow is nothing less than new
technology that will allow you to effect significant cost savings on your
piping systems. Minimizing system cost requires a comprehensive approach to
the sizing of piping, ducting and system components. With their large number
of variables and constraints, rigorously appying such an approach to real
world systems is rarely practical. Using the advanced technology of
IntelliFlow, AFT Mercury automatically selects pipe, or duct, and component
sizes that will achieve your goal of minimum cost while satisfying your
system's constraints. Sizing may be selected to minimize initial or life
cycle cost, or engineering parameters including minimum pipe weight, volume
or surface area. AFT Mercury, with IntelliFlow, doesn't just analyze your
system, it actually automates a critical part of the system design process.
IntelliFlow comprehensively analyzes the complex interaction of the various
components to system performance and cost to intelligently determine the
optimal sizes of piping, ducting, pumps, valves and other system components
for minimum system cost while satisfying a wide range of selected criteria.
The savings in materials, installation, energy and other costs associated
with your piping or ducting system can be dramatic. Traditional methods of
system optimization simply can't compare. No matter how well you think
you're doing with your systems design, you're guaranteed to find signficant
savings with AFT Mercury.
Read the June 2002 Chemical Processing article about how the capabilities of
AFT Mercury can produce dramatic savings in pumping systems and several real
life examples as presented to the 19th International Pump Users Symposium.
http://www.aft.com//news/pdf/ChemProc6-02.PDF
Optimization. A frequent goal, rarely achieved until now. AFT MercuryTM
5.0 combines a powerful pipe flow solver, comprehensive system modeling
capabilities and a flexible graphical interface with an advanced
optimization engine to provide the piping and ducting systems engineer with
the first practical tool to truly optimize for minimum cost, size or
weight. Make no mistake, AFT Mercury is nothing less than a completely new
technology that will make a hugely significant impact on your piping
systems.
With their large number of variables and constraints, the rigorous
optimization of real world systems is rarely practical. Using the advanced
optimization technology of VisualDocTM by Vanderplaats Research &
Development, the leading developer of optimization methods, AFT Mercury
automatically selects pipe and component sizes that satisfy your
constraints. Calculating material, installation, energy and maintenance
costs, optimization may be performed on an initial or life cycle basis.
Engineering optimizations include pipe size selection for minimum pipe
volume or weight. AFT Mercury doesn't just analyze your system, it
automates the actual design of your system, determining the optimal sizes
of piping, ducting, pumps, valves and other system components. The savings
in materials, installation, energy and other costs associated with your
piping or ducting system can be dramatic. If you want to move to the next
level of piping systems engineering, you'll want to be using AFT Mercury.
Built on the advanced flow analysis and system modeling capabilities of the
acclaimed AFT Fathom, AFT Mercury can simulate your piping system in
complete detail. Employing a robust solver using proven matrix methods to
solve the governing equations of pipe flow, AFT Mercury addresses open and
closed loop systems and includes a built-in library of fluids and fittings,
variable model configurations, pump and control valve modeling and much
more. Thermal analysis capabilities include heat transfer in pipes and heat
exchangers and varying fluid properties with temperature. With the
optional Chempak add-on, a thermo-physical database of almost 700 fluids,
is available to further expand the envelope of your analysis and design.
The power of AFT Mercury's optimization and system modeling capabilities is
readily accessible through an advanced drag-and-drop interface allowing the
engineer to focus on their system rather than the mechanics of software
manipulation. Equipment characteristics, analysis and output are tightly
integrated with your system's schematic representation. Multiple system
configurations are easily managed within a single model using Scenario
Manager, with changes in the base model automatically inherited by
alternate design cases. Extensive database support greatly facilitates
adding your data for fluids, materials, components and cost. The available
MeansDataTM module provides material and installation costs for a wide
variety of piping and components from the pre-eminent cost data source, RS
Means Company.
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