A good tip, and all the sermns are really required for
attempting the practical plant or project design. As I
understand, Reliance India ltd operates one of the
biggest refinery in this part of world and Mr Goel is
well versed with the cooling water network and its
performnce in the diffrent plant of RIL. They have the
resource of the engg consultancy set up in the form of
Reliance Engg Associates Ltd in India with aback up of
above 400 design engineers.
My comment was inlight of this background information.
Sorry that I know some thing extra on the Shashank
background and straight way I recommended a software,
and then came the CVG recommending Pipnet, as he also
knows the Reliance ind closely.
Narendra
>
> On Oct 8, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Narendra Roy wrote:
>
> > We may be helpful in the analysis using the very
> > effective software Bentley PlantFLOW. We will
> solve a
> > simple network for you to demonstrate the
> capability
> > of the software and then you may decide to get
> license
> > for one seat for your technical services group or
> for
> > REAL.
> Never, ever assume that a simple demo problem run by
> a VAR is going to
> do what you want. PlantFLOW may be the greatest
> software ever written,
> but the VAR's people won't know your business or
> your plant or your
> requirements. Moreover, there's no guarantee that
> you'll get up the
> speed on the software in time to do what you need to
> have done. The
> software isn't going to do your thinking for you and
> it won't know the
> questions you need to have answered.
> I make my living with engineering software of
> various sorts, and I'm
> real pleased that I can, but software is a tool, not
> a solution. If you
> don't understand what you need and the physics of
> what you're faced
> with, all that eye candy is just clutter. Do a
> walkdown and find out
> the problems from the people who run the plant. Then
> do your own
> estimates based on first principles. Then buy the
> fancy software only
> if you yourself have determined it'll make you more
> productive.
> Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an
> elephant at
> chrisw@skypoint.com | this distance" (last words
> of Gen.
> .......................................| John
> Sedgwick, Spotsylvania
> 1864)
> http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/
>
>
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