ECE’s webinar, When to consider Waterhammer Analysis? Protecting your Equipment with AFT Impulse, has been posted!  You can view the recorded webinar here.

Topics addressed:

1. What is waterhammer? Why should I worry about it? 
2. Industry standard calcs for waterhammer, are they enough
3. When is this an issue that should be considered?
4. Resolving issues with waterhammer through analysis.

Questions about the webinar?  Contact us:

• Bryan Riley – National Sales Manager briley@ecedesign.com 713-623-1502
• George Montgomery – Technical Support Manager gmontgomery@ecedesign.com 713-623-1502

ECE’s second AFT webinar, AFT Impulse with CAESAR II Dynamic Time History Analysis has been posted!  You can view the recorded webinar here.

Waterhammer transient forces

1. Show force set extraction using the “Pump with Pipe Forces” model.
2. Show force set import into a CAESAR II model for time history analysis.

PD pump transient forces

1. Setting up the PFA Module to check for fluid system natural frequencies.
2. Using the connected child scenarios to review highly resonating pump RPM values.
3. Export Force sets based on the PFA child scenarios.

In this webinar, Support Manager George Montgomery describes the practice and theory around surge and waterhammer transient events.  The webinar concludes with a review of the application of the Pulsation Frequency Analysis module that allows users to export forces from Positive Displacement pumps at different RPM.

Ready to evaluate this product firsthand?  Head over to www.ecedesign.com/aft/ to request a 21-day trial for AFT Impulse.

ECE’s first AFT webinar, AFT Fathom for Automatic Pump Sizing has been posted!  You can view the recorded webinar here.

In this webinar, Support Manager George Montgomery describes the practice and theory around the pump sizing capabilities within AFT Fathom 9.  Topics include:

• Minimum required line information for the pump sizing process.
• Sizing a pump to get both the pump curve and system curve.
• Optimizing for pump reliability to reduce pump life cycle cost.
• Create system design alerts based on desired conditions.

Ready to evaluate this product firsthand?  Head over to www.ecedesign.com/aft/ to request a 21-day trial for AFT Fathom.