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? Why use place holder fixed equipment models at all? Our unique 3D smart solid model export 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 Overview

COMPRESS Features and Benefits

COMPRESS Improves Productivity

Experienced Vessel Engineers are always in short supply. COMPRESS has an interactive, productivity enhancing 3D interface that makes the most of their valuable time. COMPRESS quickly creates ASME compliant equipment models with minimal input using the COMPRESS Vessel Wizard or HTRI Xchanger Suite Xist® file import. Unlike some 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, thicknesses and ratings 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.

Crane time is expensive, equipment damage delays schedules and mistakes made during installation can be dangerous. COMPRESS performs a rigorous lifting attachments and rigging analysis 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

Meet Your Client’s FFS Needs

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 damage mechanism assessment capabilities 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 FFS reports provide a deliverable for your client and support for your recommendations.