AFT Mercury™, using the IntelliFlow™ technology intelligently sizes piping and ducting systems resulting in significant savings. With comprehensive system modeling capabilities, a flexible graphical interface and an advanced optimization engine,
AFT Mercury offers a quantum leap improvement to the traditional pipe and duct design process.
AFT Mercury harnesses this technology to automatically identify and select the lowest cost design to meet your requirements. With AFT Mercury, you specify the design requirements and sizing criteria. Sizing criteria may be to minimize initial or life cycle cost, or parameters such as pipe weight, volume or surface area. AFT Mercury then performs a comprehensive analysis of the complex interaction among the various components to intelligently determine 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. Traditional methods of system sizing simply can’t compare. No matter how good your design methods are, AFT Mercury is guaranteed to reduce cost.
Applications
Minimizing Initial vs. Life Cycle Cost:
By sizing to minimize initial cost or life cycle cost over any specified duration, AFT Mercury provides the power of informed decision making in developing a low cost system design.
Variable Frequency Drive vs. Control Valve Analysis:
The true relative costs of VFDs vs. control valves can only be determined by comparing systems optimally sized for each case, a task quickly done using AFT Mercury.
System Balancing through Intelligent Sizing:
AFT Mercury can automatically determine line sizes to achieve inherent system flow balance resulting in significant reductions in pumping costs by minimizing throttling losses in flow control devices.
Size for Minimum Cost Over Multiple Design Cases:
Imagine the impact of determining piping, ducting and component sizes to minimize cost while insuring performance requirements are met for one or more off design cases. Or perhaps you need to concurrently size for alternate operating scenarios such as two pump operations in the summer and one pump operation in the winter. Only AFT Mercury can automatically determine the lowest cost system for these real world conditions.
Understand What Really Drives Your Design:
Piping and ducting systems typically have to meet a variety of requirements whose complex interaction makes it difficult to see their relative impact. Comparison of optimized results for differing constraints with AFT Mercury will clearly show this impact providing you valuable insight into what’s driving your system design.
Optimal Pump Sizing:
More than just accurately defining pump head and suction requirements, AFT Mercury will automatically determine the most cost effective trade-off between pipe size selection and the resulting impact on pump capacity requirements and cost.
System Requirements:
- Windows 95 & higher or NT 4.0 & higher
- 64 MB RAM minimum
- 800 x 600 display minimum
- Stand-alone or network
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