Piping stress analysis & sizing
Piping flow analysis & sizing
Equipment stress analysis & sizing
Stress and Flexibility Finite Element Analysis of Pressure Vessel and Piping Components
Comprehensive bundles to meet the specific needs for design and analysis for piping systems, process plants, and district heating
PASS - Piping and Equipment Analysis & Sizing Suite
The PASS software tools provide smart simulation and sizing tools for every piping and equipment engineer/designer that enable new users to perform piping/equipment analysis in days rather than months.
PASS Application Families
The PASS software is organized into product families to meet the broad range of piping systems analysis and design requirements.
- PASS/HYDROSYSTEM for piping hydraulic and thermal analysis & sizing.
- PASS/START-PROF for piping stress analysis & sizing.
- PASS/EQUIP for equipment analysis (vessels, columns, heat exchangers, tanks, nozzles).
- PASS/NOZZLE-FEM for stresses and flexibility calculation of nozzle-to-shell junctions.
- PASS/Integration for easy and accurate data transferring between PASS software and CAD tools.
- PASS/INDUSTRY for industry specific piping and equipment analysis.
- PASS/ACADEMIC for educational institutions.
PASS/START-PROF
PASS/START-PROF provides comprehensive pipe stress, flexibility, stability, and fatigue strength analysis with related sizing calculations according to international and national codes and standards.
PASS/HYDROSYSTEM
PASS/HYDROSYSTEM provides diameter selection, heat and hydraulic analysis of steady state and transient flow in piping systems of any complexity, including networks with loops.
PASS/EQUIP
PASS/EQUIP provides strength and stability analysis for horizontal and vertical vessels, columns, storage tanks, as well as shell, tube, and air-cooled heat exchangers under static and seismic loads in order to evaluate bearing strength. PASS/EQUIP also provides finite element analysis of vessel nozzles for the purpose of estimating their stress, stiffness, and allowable loads.
PASS/NOZZLE-FEM
PASS/NOZZLE-FEM provides higher level of the equipment safety along with reducing labour costs at the design stage. The program calculates nozzle-to-shell junctions and nozzle’s allowable loads and estimates strength of the nozzle’s junctions for wide range of geometric configurations and operating conditions.
PASS/INDUSTRY
PASS/INDUSTRY provides piping and equipment simulation and sizing based on industry specific bundles of PASS modules.
PASS/INDUSTRY is currently arranged in different configurations to meet the specific needs for Process plants, Piping systems, and District Heating.
PASS Overview
Pipelines are everywhere serving many purposes including: supplying water and natural gas, transporting wastewater, providing heat, transporting oil and gas, circulating steam/water at power stations, linking equipment in process plants, transporting of propellant and oxidant into jet engines, circulating fluids and exhaust for an automobile, and more. The engineering of a piping system is a challenging task with a wide array of different technological, mechanical, and safety requirements to comply with. It is simply impossible to effectively design complex modern piping systems without powerful and easy to use software tools of analysis, simulation, and code compliant sizing.
The PASS software tools combine embedded intelligence with powerful capabilities to make piping and equipment analysis practical for every engineer and designer while reducing the time, effort, and cost to perform the analysis. The result is smart simulation and sizing tools for every piping and equipment engineer/designer that enable new users to perform piping/equipment analysis in days rather than months.
Piping simulation requires highly specialized CAE software that incorporates knowledge of piping behavior delivered efficiently to any process and piping engineer or designer in an easy to use form for every day work.
PASS covers all main aspects of pipeline analysis including:
- Piping systems stress, fatigue, and stability analysis & sizing
- Equipment stress analysis for vessels, columns, tanks, and heat exchangers
- Nozzle-Shell Junction stress and flexibility analysis
- Piping systems fluid flow and thermal analysis & sizing
- Industrial thermal insulation calculation
- Pressure relief system sizing
PASS is already in active use by thousands of engineers for analysis and design of process piping and plant utilities, district heat transfer, water and gas networks, oil and gas field gathering piping systems, and other types of pipelines.
PASS Team Announces Release of PASS/EQUIP 3.6
New software version is available for download.
