PV Elite®
Pressure Vessel and Heat Exchanger Design Software
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What is PV Elite?
PV Elite is a comprehensive engineering application designed for the design, analysis, and evaluation of pressure vessels and heat exchangers. Widely used by engineers in the process, chemical, oil and gas, and power industries to ensure that pressure vessels are safe, reliable, and compliant with various international design codes and standards.
PV Elite provides engineers, designers, estimators, fabricators, and inspectors with solutions that match their pressure vessel and heat exchanger design needs. Because the software is user-friendly, it is perfect for both regular and occasional users requiring fast start-up and confidence in their safety code calculations.
PV Elite is a complete solution for the quick and intuitive design of new pressure vessels. It also evaluates and re-rates existing vessels, including fitness for service analysis. The software considers the whole vessel, addressing all the wall thickness rules and stress analysis requirements for vertical towers, horizontal vessels, and heat exchangers. You can also evaluate individual vessel components.
Users benefit from faster workflows thanks to tube sheet design and analysis, rectangular and noncircular vessel analysis, and individual component analysis. PV Elite boosts confidence in your safety code calculations with the software’s design tools and wizards, plus comprehensive error checking to deliver clear, concise, and accurate results.
Why use PV Elite?
Pressure vessels and heat exchangers are complex equipment, operating under significant pressure and temperatures, carry loads from attached piping, and may contain hazardous fluids. Safety is paramount as the failure of such equipment can be disastrous. Failure of a pressure vessel can cause severe damage to an industrial facility, and potentially lead to loss of life. PV Elite is used to ensure correct calculations are performed, according to recognized international standards, to ensure that the design of a pressure vessel or heat exchanger is safe.
PV Elite is typically used when:
• A vessel containing a fluid is under pressure.
• Other loads could jeopardise the safety of the vessel.
• An insurance certificate is required from a Notified Body.
Who uses PV Elite?
PV Elite is used by EPC contractors during detailed design, pressure vessel and heat exchanger OEMs involved in design and manufacturer, and owner operators, to check the remaining operational life of their assets. It is also widely used by Notified Bodies for approving and verifying calculations to provide the necessary certification so the vessel can be put into operation.
