OPCalc - Orifice Plates Calculator
The application is a part of Engineer's Thesis. It's developed for some company to calculate orifice plate parameters. It's my first GUI application based on Qt libraries.
To calculate orifice plate parameters, a user need to define environment in which the orifice plate will be used. Enironment parameters are devided in four categories:
- orifice plate parameters, which include pressure sampling type, orifice plates material, differential pressure,
- pipe parameters, which include pipe material, preceding element, pipe diameter, absolute pressure before the orifice plate,
- flow parameters, which include substance name, maximum flow, substance temperature,
- substance parameters, which depend on selected substance and include working density, dynamic viscosity coefficient.
When the user opens fifth tab called Results, the app calculates the orifice plate parameters if all required parameters are provided. In the Results tab, the user can:
- find all basic and additional calculation results, which includes: orifice plate diameter, necking, flow factor, expansion number, Reynolds number, pressure drop.
- see a technical drawing of the system, which includes pipes before and after the orifice plate and the orifice plate with all important dimenstions,
- see a detailed technical drawing of the orifice plate with all important dimenstions
- generate a report in PDF file format with all project informations, input parameters and all results,
- see a preview of the report,
- generate AutoCAD file with a technical drawing of the orifice plate.
A user can add and save a new material for pipes and flanges.
A user can add and save a new substance for flow parameters. The final parameters are interpolated linearly based on provided paramaters.
A user can add, remove and modify projects, which let the user store all provided parameters.