SPPID Insulation Tables

[Princess]

I'm fighting with trying to create Insulation Tables. The manual seems easy enough....but in realty, I'm not doing so great.

Please help! :mad:

[dave]

Ok, first thing. Do you have the project insulation requirements?

[Princess]

Yes I do...

[dave]

Great, so when you look at it, there should be requirements for the insulation material. ie: mineral wool / Calcium Silicate etc.

So expand the one that it is OR if you cannot expand it, skip to B)

Then you have to decide which insulation type it is ie: freeze protection, personnel protection etc. Keep in mind (and I am not sure if this is right but this is how we do it) that you will have to create two PP's or FP's for each insulation material. One for Non HT lines and one for HT lines. So let's say now that you have



Calcium Silicate
PP
No HT

B) Right click on Calcium Silicate and press "Add Spec"

Call the new spec CS-1.

Give it an insulation purpose, these are defined in the Insulation Purpose select list in DD. So if you need to add one, do it there.

[dave]

Next, click on the Piping Tab then Range Setup at the bottom. This is where things get goofy..

In the nominal diameter box, it's always looking at the last two items selected. So, if you choose 2" then 4" it will display as the range 2" - 4". However if you then click the 6" the range will change from 2"-3" and 4"-6". If you click the 8" after clicking the 6" the ranges will change to

2"-3"
4"-5"
6"-8"

and so on. That's pretty confusing and Ingr could do WAY better on the UI there.

So that is where you would define all of your NON HT nominal diameters. Now let's look at Temps.

For the temperature ranges you just start adding what's on your requirements sheet. So, 100 <enter> 200 <enter> 300 <enter>...as you type them you will see them appear as ranges to the right. Enter all of the temps you have on your sheet. Here is what you will need to remember. Insulation thickness will change at certain temps/nom diameters so it may be necessary to enter 100-199, 200-299, 300-399 etc. That is usually how I do it.

On to part 3

[dave]

Now, you see your range setup with Nom. Diameters on the left and temps at the top. Now it's just a matter of reading your requirements sheet to see what the insul. thickness is @ what temp/nom dia. Enter those.

So for personnel protection, if you have a 2"-3" pipe dia. at a temp of 100F-199F you would put a 1" (or whatever your document says) in the corresponding thickness box and so on and so forth till it's all done.

Remember you once you click on a box, you cannot exit that cell until you type something in there. NO BLANKS!!

One that whole thing is filled out, save and close insulation manager.

next...
Part 4 - Working in SPPID

[Princess]

Thanks Dave! I agree with you on the UI thing....that's the part that I was fighting with.:cool:

[dave]

OK, so now you will need to open a P&ID and place a line. For insulation manager to work, you will need the following fields populated on each line.


Pipe Nom. Diameter
Insulation Temp
Insulation Spec

In that order. Since Insulation temp is usually the same as Operating Temp, I would suggest using sppiders dll to copy Operating temp to Insulation temp, but it's your choice.

Once Nom. Diameter and Insulation Temp are populated, when you pick your Insulation Spec, insulation manager will fill out..



Insulation Thickness
Insulaton Type
Insulation Thickness Source
Insulation Density
and some others that I cannot remember.

That about wraps it up, questions?