The benefits of hydraulic design software for building services providers and their key features

 Industry professionals use hydraulic design software, which provides them with accurate hydraulic analysis and a hydraulic calculator for their various building services and construction projects. Hydraulic design software has an easy-to-use interface that guides HVAC engineers through the process of obtaining a hydraulic calculator. Hydraulic design software uses computer-aided engineering (CAE) tools to provide building services professionals with a thorough understanding of the hydraulic system and its integration requirements.

Because fire sprinkler systems are the first line of defense against fire in a building, their design and material are not only a regulatory requirement, but also merit special consideration. Metal pipes used in fire sprinkler systems are susceptible to microbiological corrosion (MIC), metal oxidation, and scale formation. These issues could have an impact on the performance of a hydraulic fire hydrant. Building engineers can use hydraulic design software to install efficient fire sprinkler systems. This can be accomplished with hydraulic design software through pipe scheduling or hydraulic calculation. Hydraulic calculators frequently use the Hazen-Williams formula to calculate friction loss in pipe systems. It specifies the size of pipe and sprinklers to be used in a building's fire protection system.

The hydraulic calculator is an extremely useful piece of hydraulic design software because it provides an accurate and preferred method of designing fire sprinkler systems. Below are some highly useful hydraulic calculators and hydraulic design software from the leading building services company ACADS-BSG that building services professionals can use to improve the efficiency of their operations and HVAC system installations.

SPRINK2000 hydraulic calculator

SPRINK2000 hydraulic calculator by the trusted hydraulic design software company ACADS-BSG can be used to analyse automatic fire sprinkler systems with a simple end, side or centre-fed configuration, or more complicated looped and gridded systems designed specifically for use in North America. The hydraulic calculator 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 discharge can be represented by a K-factor and minimum flow.

Key features of SPRINK2000 hydraulic calculator

·        The piping system in SPRINK2000 hydraulic design software can have up to 10 input points that can be modelled as a fixed pressure, a town mains water supply or a pump.

·        All nodes that are nominated as discharges or input points are automatically assigned as reference nodes to save input.

·        When pipe sizes are entered as nominal sizes, the hydraulic design software determines the actual I.D. from data stored in it for the different pipe materials.

·       The program can be used to determine the design point, given the K-factor and minimum discharge of each sprinkler head or hose reel.

·        Provision is made in SPRINK2000 for gridded layouts to be entered easily. The grid can have up to three main pipes with range pipes between and branches to the left or right as required.

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

·       The results of SPRINK2000 hydraulic calculator include a summary of the flows and pressures for all discharges and for all input points, followed by detailed information of pipe information.

HYENA+ hydraulic design software for modern building professionals

HYENA+ hydraulic design software simplifies hydraulic calculation needs. It is the standard for calculating automatic fire sprinkler, fire hydrant, hose reel, and water mist systems in the fire services industry. The cloud-based hydraulicdesign software can be used to analyse simple end, side, or centre-fed automatic fire sprinkler systems as well as more complex looped and gridded systems.

  • With a given size network, HYENA+ hydraulic calculator performs a complete hydraulic analysis determining flow, pressure drop and other technical data for each pipe in the entered network.
  • HYENA+ hydraulic calculator can be used to carry out a fire sprinkler analysis in accordance with NFPA, NZ4541, AS2118 and SSPC 52 standards.
  • The building design software HYENA+ uses either the Hazen-Williams or Darcy-Weisbach calculation methods.
  • Piping materials complying with a wide range of codes are catered in HYENA+ including steel, iron and copper tubing to Australian and New Zealand standards, and API codes, all of which may be selected from a drop-down list.
  • A wide range of fittings are provided in HYENA+ building design software for equivalent lengths stored in the program, and the user can add to this their own fittings with associated equivalent lengths.
  • A graphical display of the grid is provided where the user can elect to display pipe numbers, node numbers, pipe diameters, or lengths.
  • The calculations used by HYENA+ utilise complex mathematical formulae and methods for each loop in the system.

Building engineers can also choose from other building services software by the leading building services company ACADS-BSG that include CAMEL for building air-conditioning load analysis and psychrometrics, LLAMA for lift design for commercial buildings, DOLPHIN for sizing and pressure drop calculations for duct runs, DONKEY for sizing, acoustical analysis and costing of ductwork systems, and many more.

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