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Ductwork and Fire Hydrant Software with Extensive Architectural Layout, Hydraulic Preparation

Author: Stephen Wright
by Stephen Wright
Posted: Feb 03, 2022

A fire hydrant is an active fire protection feature that assists firefighters in fighting a fire quickly and effectively. Building engineers can use fire hydrant software to model the optimal design for controlling fire in an emergency. It assists building contractors in the right design, installation, operation, and maintenance of fire hydrants and fire alarms, which reduces losses to life and property due to uninvited fire. Plans for installing starting devices such as heat detectors, smoke detectors, flame detectors, and automated suppression systems will also be covered by the software.

As the software is built by industry specialists that have considerable expertise in cooling load calculator, duct software comes packed with features that totally automate many operations, properly executes complicated engineering calculations, and provides 3D modelling of the duct and hydrant systems. Leading building services software supplier companies, such as ACADS-BSG, provide an all-in-one solution to design the most efficient HVAC systems with broad 3D capabilities, architecture layout, hydraulic preparation, piping layout, automated reports, and technical support.

Here, we have described some of the most popular building services software by ACADS-BSG.

DOLPHIN duct software

The ACADS-BSG DOLPHIN duct and fitting pressure loss calculation software analyses the pressure loss of a sequence of ducts and fittings, allowing the user to calculate the needed fan pressure for a ducting system. The fittings are picked for each duct entered into the DOLPHIN ductwork software, and the computer programme calculates the pressure loss in each length of the duct and fitting.

Technical details of DOLPHIN duct software:

  • The computer program performs an hourly cooling load analysis, taking account of thermal storage on design day in each month of the year.
  • Specific 3 pm design and dry wet bulb temperatures are available in DOLPHIN duct software for over 600 locations in Australia and many offshore locations.
  • The computer program DOLPHIN carries out a psychrometrics analysis for each AHU with the coil performance expressed as a bypass factor.
  • Precalculated U values and surface densities for a wide range of standard wall and roof constructions are available in the DOLPHIN computer program.
  • The results viewing and printing screen of DOLPHIN provide for the selection of various tables, load charts, and summaries. The selected output can be passed to a print file for review before the final printing.

SPRINK2000 fire hydrant software

The ACADS-BSG computer program SPRINK2000 can be used to analyse automatic fire sprinkler systems with a simple end, side or centre-fed configurations, or more complicated looped and gridded systems. The computer program is specifically designed for use in North America. The fire hydrant software can be used to analyse fire hydrant and hose reel installations, or combined sprinkler, hydrant, and/or hose reel systems, or any other system where the discharges can be represented by a K-factor, and minimum flow.

Key specifications of SPRINK2000 fire hydrant software

  • The fire hydrant software is capable of analysing looped and gridded systems as well as the more conventional tree configurations.
  • The piping system in SPRINK2000 fire hydrant software can have up to 10 input points that can be modelled as a fixed pressure, a town mains water supply, or a pump.
  • The computer program can work in a wide range of units Metric, British and the US. It uses the Hazen-Williams formula for the hydraulic analysis.
  • All nodes that are not nominated as discharges or input points are automatically assigned as reference nodes to save input.
  • A graphical display of the grid is provided where the user can elect to display pipe numbers, node numbers, pipe diameters, or lengths.
  • The results of SPRINK2000 fire hydrant software include a summary of the flows and pressures for all discharges and for all input points, and a detailed table of the pipe information.

CAMEL cooling load calculator

The cooling load calculator calculates the design heating and cooling loads, and associated psychrometrics for air conditioning in buildings. The computer program CAMEL models a range of system types including constant volume heating and cooling, VAV with or without reheat, reverse cycle heat pumps, and evaporative coolers.

Main features of CAMEL cooling load calculator

  • The computer program CAMEL caters to overhangs complete with drop panels and reveals on both windows and walls.
  • The user can view the shadow patterns of the shading devices, drop panels, balconies, and light walls, as they traverse any selected wall or roof as the time and month vary.
  • Fresh air quantities can be entered in the CAMEL cooling load calculator at room or zone level as I/s/person with the plant fresh air quantity determined using the Multiple Compartment formula from AS1668.2-2012 for multiple rooms and zones.
  • The results of CAMEL cooling load calculator can be displayed graphically, and a psychrometric chart is provided for each AHU.
Other building services software provided by ACADS-BSG include DONKEY for sizing, acoustical analysis and costing of ductwork systems, PYTHON for the design of water piping system for air-conditioning, LLAMA for lift design for commercial buildings, WOMBAT for sound transmission in and around buildings, and many more.
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Acads-Bsg is a leading building service design software firm. We aim to provide building services designers with the software to design and check services.

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