INSTRUMENTATION

INSTRUCALC - Instrument Engineering Calculations

GULF PUBLISHING (USA) Version 5.1

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INSTRUCALC contains 74 sub-programs for:

CONTROL VALVE Sizing Liquid flow; gas/vapour flow; two-phase flow

FLOW ELEMENT Sizing Orifice Plate,(flange taps, pipe taps, corner taps,
segmental, quadrant-edged, eccentric and
conical plates); Restriction Orifice Plates;
Flow Nozzle; Venturi Tubes; Lo-Loss Tubes;
RELIEF VALVE Sizing Safety Relief Valves (liquid, gas, steam, entrapped liquid
in heat exchanger/pipeline; fire sizing)
Tank Vents(API 2000); Rupture Disks; Breather Valves
AUXILIARY Calculations Line pressure drop (liquid/gas flow)
Water Hammer (closing time, max pressure)
Compressibility Factor (gas/vapour)
Gas and Vapour Density
Vapour Temperature and Pressure
Latent Heat of Vaporization
Mixture Physical Properties

Control Valve calculations are to ANSI / ISA-S75.01,1985 and

include noise level calculations, and dynamic sizing. Orifice
plate calculations are done using the ISO 5167 (Miller)
Method (replaces Spink Handbook Method), and can also
include dynamic inlet pressure conditions. Safety Valve
calculations are to API RP520 (1976), NFPA30 or API.
Features of INSTRUCALC include ISA-type data sheets for all
calculated results and the ability to create structured job
databases, each containing a group of job tags.

A database of 64 fluids is included with the program with

properties for density, viscosity and vapour pressure and
users can add their own fluids to the database . A pipe and
pipe material database is included. In addition, INSTRUCALC
still provides the popular built-in engineering unit options that
allow any combination of English, SI or user units during a
program run, making conversion tables unnecessary. The
software also allows one to stop in the middle of a calculation,
go to another routine to calculate further input data, obtain a
printout, and then go back to the original calculation to use the
input value. Data may be imported and exported to
INSTRUCALC using ASCII files. The program offers full
screen editing of all data screens, supports colour, built-in
steam property calculations and rigorous error checking.

INSTRUCALC 5.1 PLUS is an extended version of INSTRUCALC 5.0 which has several additional flowmeter
calculations. This includes routines for AGA 3 (1990) Flow Orifice Plates, Integral Flow Orifice assemblies
(quadrant or square edged), Target Meters, Elbow Flowmeters, Wedge Flowmeters, Chemical Seal Wedge
Flowmeters, Vortex Flowmeters, Annubars (Pitot Tubes), and Rotameters.

2004 CHEMPUTE SOFTWARE CATALOGUE p 33