Fire Sprinkler Design Software to Automate and Increase the System Wide Effectiveness

 An automatic fire sprinkler design software provides automatic response when there is a fire emergency. It allows the hydraulic engineers to do more in less time, and with optimal efficiency. The software helps engineers to complete hydraulic calculations, design and manage 3D piping with accurate CAD functions, as well as assisting with the automatic insertion of joints and hangers, performing hydraulic and fluid delivery time calculations, setting up of terminals flow, and a lot more. Fire hydraulic calculation software helps engineers in creating an efficient fire sprinkler system design in 3D, and helps provide support for coordinates and stocklist management.

Fire hydraulic calculation software allow you to design sprinkler systems in 3D space with proper elevation. Fire sprinkler CAD blocks can be used to design all types of fire sprinkler systems, including dry and wet pipes, deluge and pre-action. CAD blocks help you determine the effectiveness of the whole system, by enabling the engineers to calculate the dynamics of the whole system.

Automation features with the simulation of real-world

One can design and place multiple sprinklers with any desired connection, and perform the hydraulic calculations based on the 3D design. Automaton features of the automatic fire sprinkler design software include       design wizards that automate tree, loop and standpipe, in grid and rack systems drawings. One can design a simulation of the real-world fire suppression and use the software to create and manage a 3D piping and insert joints and hangers in the design. 

The software provide a high level of safety from fires in your offices and residences. Fire sprinklers are required in large office buildings, hotels, warehouses, manufacturing industries and many residential complexes.  Here are some of the automatic fire sprinkler design software by ACADS-BSG, the leading building services designer firm, that are used by hydraulic engineers in Australia, New Zealand and other parts of the world to speed up the installation of fire sprinkler systems, and in a cost-effective way.

HYENA fire hydraulic calculation software

This computer program by ACADS-BSG can be used to analyse automatic sprinkler systems with looped and gridded systems. It performs a complete hydraulic analysis determining the water flow in, and pressure drop through each pipe in the network. The fire hydraulic calculation software can be used to carry out a sprinkler system analysis in accordance with NFPA, AS2118, NZ4541, and SSPC 52 standards. It works on a wide range of units using Hazen-Williams formula including Metric, British and the US. Piping materials complying with a wide range of codes are catered for including steel, iron and copper, complying with Australian, and New Zealand standards, and also API piping codes. All nodes that are not nominated as discharges or input points are automatically assigned as reference nodes by the program.

A wide range of fittings are provided for with equivalent lengths stored in the computer program. The program can be used to determine the design point, given the K-factor and minimum discharge of each sprinkler head or hose reel. Any number of arrangement of sprinklers on the grid can be made operational with the least favourable position of these operating heads. Sprinkler elevations can be fixed at a given height, entered individually across a grid or a single slope or pitches slope across the grid row. The grid commands can be converted into the longhand detailed individual pipe and sprinkler specifications. The results of HYENA include a summary of the flows and pressures for all discharges and for all input points.

SPRINK2000 automatic fire sprinkler design software

The computer program SPRINK2000 can be used to analyse fire hydrant and hose reel installations, or combined sprinkler hydrant, and/or hose reel systems or any other systems where the discharges can be represented by a K-factor and minimum flow. The piping system can have up to 10 input points that can be modelled as a fixed pressure, a town mains water supply, or pump.

Other key features of SPRINK2000 fire hydraulic calculation software include:

·         When pipe sizes are entered as nominal sizes, the computer program determines the actual I.D. from the stored data for different pipe materials.

·         Booster pumps and backflow preventers with check valves can be made to restrict flow to one direction in a given pipe.

·         The grid can contain up to three main pipes range pipes between and branches to the left and right as required.

·         Nodes and pipes are automatically numbered when the grid facility is used.

·         A graphical display of the grid is provided where the user can elect to display pipe numbers, node numbers, pipe diameters or lengths.

·         Range checks are carried out on all input items as they are entered.

·         Range checks are carried out on all input items as they are entered and rigorous cross-checks are made with a validation button.

·         Row applications are automatically duplicated in subsequent rows up the grid when entered as a single slope or pitched slope, until the next elevation specification.

·         The calculations in SPRINK2000 use a process of matrix inversion to solve the differential equations for each loop in the system.

·         For design estimation, the program can also determine quantities in the system including pipe lengths and numbers of fittings categorised by pipe material type and diameter.

Use of these automatic fire sprinkler design software allows you to create a 3D pipe network, change sprinkler stem on the spot, and provides the confidence to take on any project, irrespective of the size. The software have been designed using specific fire design standards and codes. The software can also be used to improve the efficiency of your existing fire sprinkler systems through optimisation. You can quickly create a clean printout and also share the softcopy of your design with clients.

Other computer programs by ACADS-BSG that building services providers, engineers, designers, architects and vendors may find useful include CAMEL for building air-conditioning load analysis and psychometrics, PYTHON for the design of water piping system for air conditioning, WOMBAT for sound transmission in and around buildings, KOALA that provides a simplified building air conditioning load estimation, and many more.