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C3D Labs (ASCON Group) today announced that NTP Truboprovod has entered into a licensing agreement to use the C3D geometric kernel for its portfolio of software products. NTP Truboprovod is the leading Russian developer of software for performing engineering analysis of piping and equipment. Get more details...

START 4.72 R1 new version is now available. This version has many new features including:

• Completely replaced the 3D graphics core;
• Added the button calls the database for the springs;
• For the list of spring standards added the "custom" field;
• Added the ability to specify limit load for custom springs;
• Added a new property "density" to the material database;
• Added the automatic pipe weight calculation ability;
• Remove the limit on the minimum gap for non-standard restraints;
• Improved convergence of iterations for one-way restraints;
• Fixed export of short pipes from pcf;
• Fixed other minor errors

Due to the 3D graphics core replacement the new requirements for graphic adapter:
Minimum Requirements: A video adapter with NVIDIA chipset or AMD/ATI with support OpenGL 2.0 and above. Functionality could be limited on the adapter with other chipset.
Recommended: Video adapter with chipset NVIDIA (NVIDIA GeForce 7000 or higher) or AMD/ATI (Radeon X300 or higher) with 1GB memory and more, with support for OpenGL 2.0 and above.
The START users with valid warranty may download the new version from downloads page. Also, you may need to update the dongle in accordance with section 4.7 of manual.

Nozzle-FEM new version 2.09 is now released.
This version has the following new features:

• Strength estimation as per ASME VIII Div. 2 2010 and EN 13445-3:2002 E;
• Analysis of barrel nozzles;
• Stiffness estimation in junction place, as well as on the edge of nozzle;
• Materials database was added by mechanical properties of main materials from EN Standards;
• Materials database was added by “Maximum allowable stresses” (table 5(A, B)) from ASME Sect. II, Part D for estimation by Sect.VIII, Div.2.

PASSAT new version 2.07 is now released, which includes a number of additional calculations, corrections and amendments, including:

BASIC module

• Calculation of high pressure elements as per GOST 54522-2011;
• Assignment and calculation of intermediate elliptic heads;
• Possibility of centralised assignment of calculation temperatures by list;
• Element and material database is now enhanced;

PASSAT-TANKS module

• Creation of area of allowable loads on the tank nozzles as per STO-SA-03-002 in the module;
• Possibility of free positioning of nozzles on the tank roof (not only radial ones);

PASSAT-HEAT EXCHANGERS module

• Possibility of displacement of the tube sheet welded in the transitional shell.

Besides, some other improvements are included.

NTP Truboprovod has officially released English version 3.80 R4 of «Hydrosystem» software for piping network flow analysis. It includes pressure drop and heat loss analysis and nominal size selection for gas, liquid and two phase gas-liquid frozen and flashing/condensing flow, some cases of two-phase choked flow, possibility to use different metric and imperial units, as well as improved program manual, user interface and result reports in English.

START 4.71 R1 new version is now available. This version has many new features including:

• Added support for Windows 8
• RD 10-249-98: implemented improvement relating to the calculation of non-orthogonal tees
• Added automatic selection of constant hangers and supports by WITZENMANN
• CA 03-003-07: high pressure minimum wall thickness are aligned
• CA 03-003-07: Fixed pressure calculation of tees
• CA 03-003-07: Fixed error in the calculation of the stability of the vacuum pipe
• Fixed an error in the calculation of non-standard restraints containing elastic supports with gaps
• SNIP 2.05.06-85, SP 36.13330.2012: Analysis now taking into account the real stresses due to pressure elongation of pipes and bends
• Window «errors and warnings» are not always appear after the calculation. Fixed
• When you open old files start, inherited as a density of 0. Fixed
• At the large radius bends added linear density and weight of the product

Piping Systems Research & Engineering Co (NTP Truboprovod) has recently joined the Tulsa University Fluid Flow Projects (TUFFP) as part of its strategy to get access to the most modern and reliable data, models and algorithms in the field of piping multiphase flow in order to deliver them to NTP Truboprovod software users. Read press-release...

A new version, PASSAT 2.06 has been released, which incorporates a number of additional calculations, corrections and updates, i. e. import of 3D models into AutoCAD, supplements to databases of materials and products, including flanges as per GOST R 54432-2011 and gaskets Graflex ®, calculation of heat exchangers with expansion joints, selection of load application to the nozzle, etc. Get more details...
All users under after-sales service are recommended to install this program version.

Piping Systems Research & Engineering Co (NTP Truboprovod) and Institut fuer Energie-, System-, Material- und Umwelttechnik, Bereich Thermodynamik (Institut EMU) at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany), have reached an agreement, according which NTP Truboprovod has purchased an advanced version of corporate multi-user license of GERG-2008 thermodynamic software, developed by Dr.-Ing. O. Kunz and Prof. Dr.-Ing. W. Wagner at the Ruhr-University Bochum, for usage inside NTP Truboprovod, and has got the right to distribute correspondent libraries as integral parts of its «Hydrosystem», «Safety valve» and «Insulation» commercial software. Press release

Piping Systems Research & Engineering Co (NTP Truboprovod) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, have reached an agreement, whereby NTP Truboprovod has the right to distribute portions of the latest version 9.0 of NIST Standard Reference Database 23 (NIST Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties: REFPROP) as integral parts of NTP Truboprovod commercial software.
REFPROP is known worldwide as a de facto standard for high precision pure component and simple mixtures physical property calculations for refrigerants, hydrocarbons and natural gas components. The version 9.0 calculates properties and vapor-liquid phase equilibrium for 105 pure fluids, 5 pseudo-pure fluids and their mixtures, including 67 predefined mixtures, most often used in industrial applications.
The agreement makes NTP Truboprovod the first Russian software developer to offer its users the power and accuracy of REFPROP, along with already available STARS, WaterSteamPro and ProSim Simulis Thermodynamics libraries.