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Intelligence. Whether your goal is to minimize first or life cycle cost, it's a key ingredient in the design of cost effective piping and ducting systems. AFT Mercury, powered by IntelliFlow, is the first software product to offer the piping systems engineer intelligent, automated sizing of system piping, ducting and components to achieve this goal. With comprehensive system modeling capabilities, a flexible graphical interface and an advanced optimization engine, AFT Mercury with IntelliFlow is nothing less than new technology that will allow you to effect significant cost savings on your piping systems. Minimizing system cost requires a comprehensive approach to the sizing of piping, ducting and system components. With their large number of variables and constraints, rigorously appying such an approach to real world systems is rarely practical. Using the advanced technology of IntelliFlow, AFT Mercury automatically selects pipe, or duct, and component sizes that will achieve your goal of minimum cost while satisfying your system's constraints. Sizing may be selected to minimize initial or life cycle cost, or engineering parameters including minimum pipe weight, volume or surface area. AFT Mercury, with IntelliFlow, doesn't just analyze your system, it actually automates a critical part of the system design process. IntelliFlow comprehensively analyzes the complex interaction of the various components to system performance and cost to intelligently determine the optimal sizes of piping, ducting, pumps, valves and other system components for minimum system cost while satisfying a wide range of selected criteria. The savings in materials, installation, energy and other costs associated with your piping or ducting system can be dramatic. Traditional methods of system optimization simply can't compare. No matter how well you think you're doing with your systems design, you're guaranteed to find signficant savings with AFT Mercury.

Read the June 2002 Chemical Processing article about how the capabilities of AFT Mercury can produce dramatic savings in pumping systems and several real life examples as presented to the 19th International Pump Users Symposium. http://www.aft.com//news/pdf/ChemProc6-02.PDF

Optimization. A frequent goal, rarely achieved until now. AFT MercuryTM 5.0 combines a powerful pipe flow solver, comprehensive system modeling capabilities and a flexible graphical interface with an advanced optimization engine to provide the piping and ducting systems engineer with the first practical tool to truly optimize for minimum cost, size or weight. Make no mistake, AFT Mercury is nothing less than a completely new technology that will make a hugely significant impact on your piping systems.

With their large number of variables and constraints, the rigorous optimization of real world systems is rarely practical. Using the advanced optimization technology of VisualDocTM by Vanderplaats Research & Development, the leading developer of optimization methods, AFT Mercury automatically selects pipe and component sizes that satisfy your constraints. Calculating material, installation, energy and maintenance costs, optimization may be performed on an initial or life cycle basis. Engineering optimizations include pipe size selection for minimum pipe volume or weight. AFT Mercury doesn't just analyze your system, it automates the actual design of your system, determining the optimal sizes of piping, ducting, pumps, valves and other system components. The savings in materials, installation, energy and other costs associated with your piping or ducting system can be dramatic. If you want to move to the next level of piping systems engineering, you'll want to be using AFT Mercury.

Built on the advanced flow analysis and system modeling capabilities of the acclaimed AFT Fathom, AFT Mercury can simulate your piping system in complete detail. Employing a robust solver using proven matrix methods to solve the governing equations of pipe flow, AFT Mercury addresses open and closed loop systems and includes a built-in library of fluids and fittings, variable model configurations, pump and control valve modeling and much more. Thermal analysis capabilities include heat transfer in pipes and heat exchangers and varying fluid properties with temperature. With the optional Chempak add-on, a thermo-physical database of almost 700 fluids, is available to further expand the envelope of your analysis and design.

The power of AFT Mercury's optimization and system modeling capabilities is readily accessible through an advanced drag-and-drop interface allowing the engineer to focus on their system rather than the mechanics of software manipulation. Equipment characteristics, analysis and output are tightly integrated with your system's schematic representation. Multiple system configurations are easily managed within a single model using Scenario Manager, with changes in the base model automatically inherited by alternate design cases. Extensive database support greatly facilitates adding your data for fluids, materials, components and cost. The available MeansDataTM module provides material and installation costs for a wide variety of piping and components from the pre-eminent cost data source, RS Means Company.

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