Answers for your Questions

• What flow rate will a given circulator produce in my piping system?
  
• How do I compensate for temperature drops along a series piping loop of fin-tube baseboard?
  
• How would using the next larger pipe size change the flow rate in a circuit?
  
• What is the heat loss through a partially bermed basement wall?
  
• How do I set balancing valves on a radiant heating manifold station?
  
• What effect will adding antifreeze have on the performance of my system?
  
• Do I need a differential pressure bypass valve in my system?
  
• How big should the system’s expansion tank be?
  
• What is the proper pipe size for a given heat transport rate?
  
• Which fuel is the better choice for my system?
  

Software Modules

1. Room Heat Load Estimator
   
2. Series Baseboard Simulator
   
3. Hydronic Circuit Simulator
   
4. Expansion Tank Sizer
   
5. Fluid Properties Calculator
   
6. Basement Heat Load Estimator
   
7. Hydraulic Resistance Calculator
   
8. Pipe Sizer
   
9. Pipe Heat Loss Estimator
   
10. Heating Cost Estimator
    

• Don’t like working with pump curves or system curves.
  
• Need to quickly design primary / secondary piping circuits.
  
• Size expansion tanks as “little”, “medium” and “big”.
  
• Want to quickly design modern “homerun” distribution piping systems.
  
• Need to quickly estimate the heat loss of each room in a building.
  
• Want to evaluate different sizes of PEX or PEX-AL-PEX tubing in your radiant heating systems.
  
• Design 2-pipe direct return piping systems for residential or commercial buildings.
  
• Need to compare the performance of a distribution piping system using almost any circulator currently available in the North American market.
  
• See what happens if you add a differential pressure bypass valve to a distribution system.
  
• Want to quickly compare the costs of different fuel options for your customers.
  
• Wonder about how adding antifreeze will effect the performance of your system.
  
• Want to see how flow divides up through parallel piping circuits of different length and having different components or fittings.
  
• Need to estimate how balancing valve settings will effect the flow and heat output of branch circuits.
  
• Need to accurately determine the heat loss of bare or insulated copper tubing.
  
• Want to accurately simulate flow through a device such as a heat exchangers, panel radiator, or air venting device for which you have no equivalent length data.
  
• Need to quickly estimate the fluid volume in a system containing different types and sizes of pipe.
  
• Want to accurately size fin-tube baseboard circuits containing up to 12 baseboards using different pipe sizes, and different circulator.
  
• Need to assess the performance of radiant floor heating circuits connected to a common manifold.
  
• Want to design your systems using the latest tools available to hydronic heating professionals.
  

System Requirements