AFT Arrow

AFT Arrow is particularly useful for:

• Pipe and Duct Sizing
• Relief valve sizing and system calculations
• Compressor and Fan sizing and Selection
• Control Valve sizing and Selection
• Simulating System operation and component interaction
• Choked Flow calculations
• Evaluating pipe insulation and heat transfer in pipes and heat exchangers
• Troubleshooting existing systems to determine the cause of operational problems

Evaluate New Designs and Improve Your Installed Systems

AFT Arrow…

• Accurately simulates individual system components and their interaction including effects of heat transfer, real gases and choked flow
• Tightly integrates equipment characteristics, analysis and output with your system’s schematic representation
• Provides a wide array of features without sacrificing your need for a short learning curve
• Frees you to focus on your system, not the mechanics of software manipulation
• Significantly improves the quality of systems engineering you can achieve, leading to less costly, more efficient and more reliable piping systems

Features

• Advanced marching methods provide highly accurate results
• Detailed modeling for fans and compressors, control valves, heat exchangers and other components
• Conduct compressor and fan energy cost analysis
• Conduct thermal analysis including piping heat transfer and heat exchanger modeling
• Scenario Manager tracks all design variants and operational possibilities in a single model file with data linkage
• Integrated graphing and reporting
• Built-in library of gases and fittings can be extended and customized
• Built-in ASME steam properties
• Optional Chempak™ add-on utility provides a thermophysical database of almost 600 gases – allows you to define non-reacting pre-mixtures,and simulate dynamic flow mixing

Benefits

• Understand the fluid dynamic and thermodynamic behavior of your system
• Predict how pipes, valves, compressors, fans and other components will interact with each other
• Evaluate the performance of new designs
• Assure all design requirements are met
• Identify and correct operational problems
• Produce less costly, more efficient and more reliable piping systems

AFT Arrow Add-On Modules

With these software extension tools, you can quickly and efficiently complete projects. Utilize your AFT Arrow add-on modules within any version of AFT Arrow.

• Goal Seek & Control Module (GSC) – Identifies input parameters that yield desired output values and simulates control functions.
• Extended Time Simulation (XTS) – Define a wide range of operating conditions during a time simulation such as tank pressures, compressor speed variations, and more.
• Automated Network Sizing (ANS) – Evaluates the complex interaction of system variables to reveal combinations of cost savings.