A. We have a short video that demonstrates how quickly you can do just that! After talking with our customers at engineering firms in the HVAC industry, we discovered they use PIPE-FLO® primarily when adding to or troubleshooting existing HVAC piping systems. Much to our surprise, the majority of our customers in this market continue to use their spreadsheets when designing new systems.
When asked why they did not use PIPE-FLO on new systems, the most common response was they did not want to enter the entire piping system only to find the most hydraulically remote circuit needed for pump sizing. With a spreadsheet, they only enter the pipelines going to and returning from the most hydraulically remote circuit, eliminating the need to enter all the pipelines in the system.
Once we discovered more about the way these customers were using electronic spreadsheets in determining the head loss for their most hydraulically remote circuit, we came up with a method for using PIPE-FLO to quickly build a model rivaling the simplicity of the spreadsheet method.
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To watch the full VIDEO about Quickly modeling a HVAC Chilled Water system in PIPE-FLO, Click Here.
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