PVE5 Pressure Vessel Engineering and Heat Exchanger Design
PVE5 Pressure Vessel Engineering embodies the experience of the Whessoe Group
in designing pressure vessels
since the turn of the twentieth century and more recently the reactor vessels
for the UK's power generation programme.
It performs design and compliance calculations
in accordance with PD 5500, ASME VIII Div 1, or BS EN 13445. A database of material stresses for
the first two codes is provided as an integral part of the package, and a similar database is
under development for BS EN 13445.
Also available:
OVAL - a small application to perform code compliance calculations for out-of-roundness
of cylindrical shells under external pressure (PD5500 Annex M).
FDA5 - flange design to ASME VIII Div.1 Appendix 2; or PD5500 3.5.8. The
user is able to specify three design methods which require increasingly
complete specification of data:
- Open design - a minimal set of data is required
- Fixed bolting - as above, but the program keeps the specified bolt size
- Fixed geometry - every dimension except the flange thickness is specified
Also, the following types of calculation are available for completely specified flange
- MAWP - maximum alowable working pressure
- STRESS - stress calculations
Heat Exchanger Tubesheet design (TSD5) and layout (TSL5).
TSD5 performs a design to either ASME VIII Div. 1 (New!), Part UHX, PD5500 or TEMA rules.
TSD5 can either confirm an existing design or determine the required tubesheet thickness.
TSL5 performs tubesheet layout calculations, taking into account the number of tubes, the number of passes and pass arrangement,
inlet and outlet nozzle dimension, etc.