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Pipeline design is critical in power generation, chemical manufacturing, industrial refrigeration, civil infrastructure, and the oil and gas industry.
Pipeline designers use math tools to:
Maple Flow provides a freeform, paper-like, calculation environment.
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Applications for Pipeline Design and AnalysisDesign engineers need to ensure code compliance with readable, auditable calculation reports. You can use Maple Flow to implement ASME B31 pipe codes for pressure piping, as well as their international equivalents (such as AS4041, BS 010230 and DNVGL-ST-F101).
Design engineers use Maple Flow to determine head and flowrates in pipes and pipe networks. These calculations often need strong iterative solvers. You can collect these equations together in an unstructured form, and solve them with Maple Flows math functions. You can also implement standard semi-theoretical equations for predicting gas flow through long pipelines, such as the Weymouth or IGT equations.
Maple Flow offers a full, computable database of transport and thermodynamic properties for liquids and gases. This database can be linked to your calculations, so that properties are maintained when two intendent states (such as temperature and pressure, or temperature and entropy) change.
Maple Flow can be used to implement the equations that describe the deflection of rigid or flexible pipes, buried in soil. The modified Iowa formula is the accepted method of calculating the vertical deflection of buried flexible pipes. The strength of rigid pipes (such as those made of concrete or steel) is determined by Marston theory.
Both approaches can be implemented with Maple Flow, providing auditable, readable calculation reports.
