How to connect pipes in a flowsheet
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Different pipe materials are available in the component toolbar. Once a pipe material has been selected from the component toolbar, the pipe can be “rubber banded” across the flowsheet using any of the methods:
Lone pipe connection can be made in a blank space of the flowsheet.
Once the desired pipe material is selected in the component tab, users can click to a blank space in the flowsheet.
This creates a pipe where both ends are represented by an open pipe boundary.
Once the appropriate pipe material is selected in the component tab, Users can connect nodes by “Click – Drag – Click” action.
Connection to pipes already existing at the flowsheet can be made through the “Click-drag-click” action once the appropriate pipe material has been selected in the component toolbar.
When performing an existing pipe connection, a junction represented by a tee will be automatically inserted in between the new connection.
Pipes would always terminate with a node connection. Hence, a pipe with no other connection would always terminate with an open pipe end.
Pipes can be deleted by either deleting the pipe or by deleting nodes where the pipe is connected.
Pipe junctions adjust themselves automatically depending on the number of connecting pipes up to a maximum of four. That is, two connecting pipes generate an elbow or bend; three a tee or a wye; and four connections, a cross.
Connector junctions can have more than four (4) pipe connections.
When creating a pipe-on-pipe connection or inserting a component in between pipes, the original pipelength would be split into half automatically. This needs to be checked by the user if the length definition is still correct or needs updating.
Unallowed connections are automatically prevented. For instance, users will not be able to connect a third pipe connection to a pump or a fifth connection to a cross junction.
The Reservoir node is the only boundary with fluid and temperature definition capable of accommodating more than one (1) pipe connection.
