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Heat exchanger calculation software

2009-12-31 View Original

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May I ask, what is SW6? Is it a software for heat exchanger calculations?
Reply #2 2009-12-31
The SW6-1998 software package is an authoritative pressure vessel design software developed and released by the National Chemical Equipment Design Technology Center The SW6-1998 software package uses standards such as GB150-1998 as its calculation model, with Windows as the operating platform. Its features are as follows: 1. SW6-1998 includes ten equipment calculation programs (for horizontal vessels, towers, fixed-tube plate heat exchangers, floating-head heat exchangers, packed-bed heat exchangers, U-tube heat exchangers, vertical vessels with jackets, spherical tanks, high-pressure vessels, and non-circular vessels, etc.), as well as component calculation programs and a user material database management program. 2. The component calculation program can independently calculate the most commonly used cylinders subjected to internal and external pressures as well as various end caps, as well as pressure-bearing elements such as those with openings for reinforcement and flanges. It can also perform strength calculations for some relatively special pressure-bearing elements specified in HG20582-1998 \"Specifications for Strength Calculation of Steel Chemical Storage Vessels\". The ten-device calculation program can almost perform individual or overall calculations on the compression members of various structural combinations for such devices. 3. Since SW6-1998 uses Windows as its operating platform, many of its operations draw on a user interface similar to that of Windows. This allows users to enter the raw data for the same device in multiple sessions, there are no restrictions on the order in which raw data for different components of the same device is entered, and prompts can be provided using diagrams or help buttons while entering raw data – all of which greatly facilitates user usage. The order in which various components of a device are processed can be determined either by the user or by a program, offering great flexibility. 4. To facilitate users in verifying the drawings and calculation results, and to meet the requirements for archiving original data under the pressure vessel management system, a new function has been added to this version: printing the original data entered by the user. 5. After the calculation is completed, the corresponding results are presented in various ways: through brief display on the screen, or in the form of WORD tables to create a \"Design Calculation Report\" organized in both Chinese and English, thereby meeting the different needs of users who wish to view brief conclusions or obtain formal documents for archiving.

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