Hexagon unveils PV Elite 26 updates for pressure vessel design, analysis
Comprehensive software now comes with enhanced workflows, codes and connections for pressure vessel design, evaluation and analysis.
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Hexagon’s (Huntsville, Ala., U.S.) Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division presents the latest version of its pressure vessel analysis software, PV Elite 26.
PV Elite, in its 30th year, is a comprehensive solution for the design, analysis and evaluation of pressure vessels and heat exchangers. It also provides capabilities for evaluating and re-rating existing vessels, including Fitness for Service analysis. Application areas include chemical, equipment, food and beverage, offshore, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, piping, power, process and plant design, shipbuilding and water treatment.
Key new features and advancements include:
- 2D/3D visual enhancements, including a new flat, rotatable 2D/3D drawing view augmented with a dynamic bill of materials
- Improved material selection, with simplified access to favorite and pinned materials and materials database search
- Updated engineering codes, incorporating the latest ASME and EN standards and rectangular vessel thickness.
- Detailed fatigue analysis (EN 13445 Section 18) provides enhanced capabilities for fatigue analysis of each part of the pressure vessel.
- Dynamic dimensions in output reports, which now provide dynamic diagrams to understand the geometry of an element, such as a nozzle or heat exchanger.
- New connection types, with support for full-face flanges, rectangular flanges, clamp connections and O-ring flanges.
“Modeling a pressure vessel can be a tedious and time-consuming task,” Kristin Coyle, PV Elite product owner, Hexagon, notes. “Streamlining this process is at the core of PV Elite’s latest update. Drawing directly from user feedback, this iteration focuses on helping our users get work done faster, making it easy to verify inputs and ensuring that their vessel meets requirements. It means that our users have more time to optimize their designs and cultivate their competitive advantage.”
Hering AG, a user of PV Elite, notes that the technology has helped reduce engineering and calculation costs by 30%, in addition to maintaining high design quality and validating its products.
