Download Engineered Software Flow of Fluids 2018 version 16.1.41643

These Release Notes apply to all products of the PIPE-FLO Family, including PIPE-FLO® Professional, PIPE-FLO Professional Lite, and Flow of Fluids unless otherwise indicated.

Key Highlights
– Added a Flow Meter Sizing feature to calculate the diameter for balancing orifices and flow meters per ASME standards
– Added a Pipeline Valve & Fitting K, Cv, Kv Calculator to estimate the performance of fittings from flow and pressure drop measurements
– Bug fixes and performance optimization for faster editing and quicker solutions
– Numerous UI improvements, including:
. Added a Gradient Color Legend to the FLO-Sheet Report
. Unit selectors to property grid for device design data fields
. Automatically switch to the newly created Lineup
. Default text orientation set to horizontal
New Features
– Flow meter sizing for balancing orifices and flow meters
– Pipeline Valve & Fitting K, Cv, Kv Calculator
Improvements / Changes to Features
– Performance improvements:
. Improved first flow guess results in fewer iterations required to converge to a solution
. Loading NIST fluid tables and ESI fluid tables on demand results in 5x faster start up
. Using Advanced Operations to multiply flow rate settings of flow demands and other devices now exponentially faster!
– Flow meters and balancing orifices:
. Sizing feature
. Now display calculated results when the sonic flow warning is thrown
. Added “Change Diameter” to right click context menu
. Diameter is now a required design field
. Changed calculations to use inlet static pressure instead of inlet fluid zone total pressure (NOTE: this may change calculated results of previous files slightly)
. Added Static Pressure Drop to flow meters and balancing orifices results
– Reports: Gradient Color Legend on FLO-Sheet Report, added additional reports
– Lineups: Automatically switch to the newly created Lineup
– Units: Unit selectors for device design data fields in the Property Grid
– Text: Default text orientation for all devices and the document set to horizontal
– FLO-Sheet and Property Grid Labels now reflect difference between Total Pressure and Static Pressure
New Calculations / Changes to Existing Calculations
– Iterative solution method for sizing flow meters and balancing orifices
– Added Static Pressure Drop to flow meters and balancing orifices
– Flow meters and balancing orifices calculated using inlet static pressure instead of fluid zone total pressure
New Warning Messages / Changes to Existing Warning Messages
– Incorporated the flow meter messages into the Diameter Sizing dialog to warn of issues during meter sizing
Bug Fixes
– Incorrect static head calculated for a System Resistance Curve for pumps with different suction and discharge elevations (fixes Program Bulletin PB 2017-003)
– Saved OverTime results don’t retain the lineup name
– Lose OverTime results graphs on zoom
– OverTime changes to device Operation fields by Rules or Input Curves does not get applied to the PIPE-FLO model unless the device Operation in the model matches the change in Overtime, although the results graphs and event log show that they are applied.
– Tank levels are frozen in OverTime when “Update PIPE-FLO Model” box is not checked (fixes Program Bulletin PB 2017-002)
– Tank Geometry volume units exported to DataLink in wrong units
– Program crash when loading a Variable Speed pump from a catalog
– Program crash when deleting a “ghost pipe”
– Prevent creation of a “ghost pipe”