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AutoPIPE Vessel philosophy
Creating a new vessel is very fast when starting with a
Project Specification containing all the Project Rules.
As Pressure Vessels are a collection of components,
individual components can also be designed by
removing or adding any necessary components from a
simple vessel.
Vessel description starts from the left to the right for
horizontal vessel and from bottom to top for vertical.
Default field color has the following meanings :
Red : Shall be fill,
Green : Default value is provided by software,
Yellow : Not necessary unless specific request.
Length is provided from tangent line to tangent line or
flange gasket face.
Information remains true until changed.
Nozzles, trays, packing, gussets are provided in level from the tangent line, so the length of the
skirt can be changed without changing any thing else.
Tips :
Do not forget to change the corrosion allowance of the intermediate head and the following
shell.
A skirt involves anchor chair in the geometry and a conical skirt implies a Bolt circle diameter.

Vessels and components handled by AutoPIPE Vessel

Materials handled by AutoPIPE Vessel are Pressure Vessels, Shell and Tubes Heat Exchangers,
Steel Stack and Air Cooler. AutoPIPE Vessel also performs calculation and drawing of
components as well as local loads and expansion joint
design.

Individual calculation
Geometry (Head, shell, conical transition),
Flanges,
Individual opening reinforcements,
Multiple opening reinforcements,
These calculations are valid for internal / external pressure
for all Pressure Vessel Codes.
Are also in this family, special calculation like:
Local loads according to BS 5500 or WRC B,
Anchors,
Expansion joint,
Saddles for Horizontal vessels,
Tube-sheet layout,
Beam.

Chimneys
This concerns metallic chimney base anchored. The calculation foresees 3 helixes
systematically to 120 to avoid whirlwinds of Karman.
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Pressure Vessel
Horizontal vessel on saddles (2 to 10) with the
possibility of setting an individual stiffness for each
saddle,
Vertical vessel on legs,
Vertical vessel on brackets,
Vertical vessel on skirt.
Vessel can have one to tree chambers with different design
conditions.
Double jacket and limped coil are included in the design.
Vessel presented as template can be transformed by
inserting components such as cone, flange, flange cover

Shell and Tubes exchangers

Any combination of channel, shell and rear end can be
selected for creating a new shell and tube heat exchanger.
Special consideration is made for floating head single pass as expansion joint below.
Tube-sheet can be extended, avoiding the test ring and
bolted tube-sheet can be internally bolted.

Most of the bundle pass arrangement can be set up to 30

passes.
Longitudinal and transversal bundle layout can be
interactively managed.
U bend can be crossed one to one, two to one or tree to one.
Impingement baffle can be plate or rods.
Sliding rails, sealing strips and tie rods are automatically
located with the possibility to interactively change the
location.
None tubed area as well no tube in window is available.
Disk and doughnut, segmental, double segmental, triple
segmental and support baffle are possible.

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Air Cooler
Forced and Induced draft air cooler with conical, pyramidal, box transition including steel
structure description and drawing without the steel structure design.
Plug header, flanged cover plate, stud cover plate and bonnet header are designed according to
ASME VIII as rectangular box with or without stiffener plate.
Bundle layout is done preserving the necessary space for shaft of induced draft.
Up to 4 Bundles per bay, grouping bays in Unit and Units in Banc.

Project specification
This is not a vessel but the project rules common to several vessels such as wind, seismic
conditions, head type, floating head style
Any new vessel created within the same project directory will get by inheritance the project
data.
You should also consider having a Config directory in your Project directory to take advantage
of the customization per customer.

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AutoPIPE Vessel Preference
AutoPIPE Vessel properties are maintained in the Windows registry database.
To understand how to customize your preference such as Editor, Unit System, Language, CAD
Software, style of report, drawing option, select File and Preference in the AutoPIPE Vessel
Sketcher menu.

Default Path Page

Customizable Files Directory Config, is intended to store your customizable files.
The User can create a Config i.e. Database File Directory in each Project Directory. This
enables customization of partial or complete Database for a specific Project.
Please note : the Software initially attempts to open the file in the same directory of the actual
Vessel data before going to the default.

Tips :
Even using an RTF format for our report edition, we recommend using Word.
To Setup the CAD software to Microstation, SolidWorks or Autocad , select your CAD
software and then use the Browse button to find the exe file.
When using Autocad, SolidWorks or Microstation, automatic drawing generation shall locally
start the software.
One workstation need to be AutoCAD Full to generate drawings, other users may use
AutoCAD LT to modify them.
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