Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC)

Coordinate Plant Layout and ASME Equipment Design

Are your 3D plant layouts starting with place holder fixed equipment models that will need to be corrected later? The COMPRESS smart solid model export feature helps designers get 3D plant layouts right earlier in the design cycle by starting with ASME Code compliant 3D solid models. To place anchors, structural steel and route process piping you need flange and support locations – information our “smart” equipment models “know”.

COMPRESS is widely used by fabricators and can facilitate project coordination with your vendors too. Specifying that fabricators submit COMPRESS 3D solid models with their equipment allows detailed plant layout verification earlier in the project saving even more time and effort.

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COMPRESS Features

COMPRESS Improves Engineering Productivity

Experienced Vessel Engineers are always in short supply. COMPRESS makes the most of their valuable time by performing calculations that competing products do not offer. It also speeds equipment model creation with features such as nozzle copy and paste, the COMPRESS Vessel Wizard and the HTRI Xchanger Suite Xist® file import. Unlike other software that provide analysis only, COMPRESS offers both Rating (analysis) and Design Modes. In Design Mode, COMPRESS takes your input data and selects component sizes and thicknesses automatically all based on ASME Code requirements.

Large projects can span several years and new projects are always contracted using the latest ASME Code. COMPRESS easily handles this situation by including multiple Code Editions. This saves on IT costs and avoids having to keep track of multiple vessel programs, one for each ASME Code year.

COMPRESS Prevents Mistakes

The ASME Code is a complex set of mandatory rules subject to regular updates. An Engineer specializing in the Code must be familiar, and stay current with, a wide range of technical subjects. Building Codes, related Codes and Standards, good engineering practices, customer specifications not to mention advances in computing make this a challenging area of Engineering practice. COMPRESS has been in widespread use for over 30 years and helps Engineers navigate through this and avoid Code related errors and omissions.

Avoid project delays caused by equipment being rejected due to hydro test over-stress. Although not required by Code, COMPRESS performs hydro test stress calculations to catch this before the test.

The COMPRESS shipping saddles feature helps avoid equipment damage during transport.

Crane time is expensive, equipment damage delays schedules and mistakes made during installation can be dangerous. that helps Engineers prepare for this mission critical operation.

A COMPRESS designed tall tower being installed.
Note the strut used to prevent damage to the support skirt.

Photo Credit: Ken Grakauskas of New Century Engineering & Design

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Meet Your Client’s FFS Needs With INSPECT

Our aging infrastructure is the driving force behind the increasing need for fixed equipment fitness-for-service (FFS) analysis. INSPECT®, available as an upgrade to COMPRESS, adds API-579-1 damage assessment capabilities for vessels, piping and tanks to assist you in serving your client’s post construction needs. Older equipment often lacks drawings and other documentation which clients require. INSPECT can quickly create RAGAGEP documentation to bring un-documented vessels into compliance. When FFS is required, INSPECT’s unique 3D graphics provide visual confirmation that the equipment and the damage have been correctly specified. INSPECT’s detailed API-579-1 FFS reports provide a deliverable for your client and support for your recommendations.