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PAWS for ABS analysis and design functions in two main areas – the design of
pressurised sewage drainage systems using ABS Piranha® pumps; the analysis
and control of waterhammer pressure transients for ABS pumps and rising main
systems.
Analytical features include the facility to switch pumps on and off and compute
sump emptying time. Analytical results are printed on the screen graphic and
as a spreadsheet.
The waterhammer analysis capability computes the transient pressure fluctuation
in a pump/rising main system resulting from sudden pump tripout. PAWS caters
for single pumps and multiple parallel pumps discharging into a single rising
main.
The latter can be segmented into multiple sections with different pipe properties.
Provision is made for the inclusion of waterhammer control devices, including
air valves, air vessels and open surge tanks. The PAWS pipe feature allows for
comprehensive modelling of hydraulic characteristics e.g. wall roughness and
the insertion of fittings such as bends and valves. Stand-alone flow objects,
include open channels, flow-measurement flumes and weirs, storm water overflow
weirs and pipe manifolds, each with built-in analytical functions.
The software also provides users with a set of hydraulic building blocks and
an Analysis tool for drafting, creating and testing hydraulic systems on the
screen.
Every component of an hydraulic system has physical dimensions and other properties
that influence its hydraulic behaviour. When you draw an object on the PAWS
design sheet you are essentially creating a virtual version of a real world
object. backed up by a full complement of parameter values.
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