TICP

Thermal Insulation Calculation Software

How much operating profit are you wasting through inappropriately specified plant insulation?

Are you spending too much time just calculating the thermal insulation requirements of the plant?

Are you confident that the approach you have taken incorporates the knowledge of renowned
insulation experts?

You can save days of design time per year and have real confidence in the result if you use TICP
in all your thermal insulation problems

TICP (Thermal Insulation Calculation Program) is a new software product that allows you to simulate a wide
range of thermal insulation problems via a flexible Windows™ interface. It was developed on behalf of, and
with the assistance of the Netherlands based CINI organisation – CINI provides expert guidance throughout
Europe on practical and design issues that must be addressed when applying insulation materials to plant,
and is an acknowledged source of authoritative information in this field.
TICP encapsulates the knowledge of CINI’s “Insulation for Industries” reference
book which contains numerous examples of insulators’ thermal properties,
and the recommended thickness of insulators that should be applied.
TICP will perform a range of simulations that will be of use when tackling
plant design or analysis tasks. These include:
• Determine the optimum insulation thickness to (for
example) minimise plant costs or prevent surface
condensation.
• Simulate and give profiles for cooling of flowing or
stagnant media.
• Examine thermal properties (including calculation
of mean from actual conductivity) of insulators.
• Summarise financial implications of various aspects
of insulator usage.
TICP comes with a pre-defined database covering
materials from the CINI handbook; you can extend
this database as and when required. Insulation prices
– used by the various financial analysis options within
TICP – can also be added and updated as required,
and entered in the currency of your choice from Euro
to $. Context-sensitive help is available throughout
TICP and covers all aspects of its uses, from general concepts down to the meaning of each on-screen
element. It has its own user interface for the entry of data, and presents results as graphs or tables and these
results can be copied into other programs via the Windows clipboard.

HTFS is a registered trademark

TICP enables you to simulate a wide range of thermally
insulated systems. TICP handles these via 3 main categories.
The “case-by-case” category, allows you to calculate the
detailed thermal behaviour of a specific section of piping.
TICP’s “general applications” category allows you to
calculate the insulation thicknesses required for a whole
range of pipe sizes if you must meet some overall objective,
such as minimising the combined operating and insulation
costs, preventing condensation (when you are insulating
pipes containing a cold fluid) and (for hot fluids) keeping
the surface temperature of pipes below some limit
determined by safety standards. “Auxiliary calculation” is
used for specific isolated calculations.
The following example illustrates how TICP calculates the
insulation thicknesses necessary to keep the surface
temperature of an (insulated) pipe below some threshold.
From the general applications category “Personnel
Protection” is selected as the calculation of choice on TICP’s
“Problem Page”; the other pages then adjust their contents
so only values applicable to this problem can be entered.
For more information on TICP and any other program in the HTFS suite of software,
please contact AEA Technology Engineering Software at a location listed below.
Calgary, Canada, (403) 520-6000 • Houston, USA, (713) 339-9600 • Newark, USA, (302) 369-0773
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, (603) 470-3880 • Yokohama, Japan, 81-45-476-5051
In the first (“Product Side”) page the details of the fluid
flowing through the system are specified. You can enter
values on this page (and any other) in either metric or US
customary units.
The second input page allows you to enter values for the
atmosphere surrounding the system you’re simulating; air
temperature, speed and the convection model to be used
to determine this form of heat loss. TICP supports a range
of standard models, including ISO/DIS 12241.2,VDI 2055
and ASTM C 680.
Finally, on the construction page the mechanical details of
the piping and insulation are input. In this case the
“standard” CINI 2.1.01 insulator from TICP’s database is
used, but you can enter a specific thermal conductivity, or
add a new insulator with more complex thermal properties
to the database if you wish.
Once all the necessary data has been entered you are
presented with the results page containing a grid of results;
along the top there are the inlet temperatures you specified
on the “Product Page”, and down the left the standard
“Nominal Diameter” (DN) outside diameters of pipe you
may be using. Each cell contains the insulation thickness
you must use to satisfy
the safety threshold for
a particular inlet
temperature/pipe
diameter combination.
For this example the left column’s values are all “None”, as
for this column’s operating temperature (50°C) the fluid is
already below the safety threshold (65°C) - no insulation is
necessary. A double click on any cell will switch to the
details page relating to that cell. This shows the details of
heat loss and various heat transfer coefficients, for both
the insulated pipe and (for comparison) the same pipe
without any insulation.
System requirements
It is recommended that TICP is used on a Pentium with
at least 32MB RAM, operating under MS Windows NT or
95/98. The software is network compatible and year 2000
compliant.
E-Mail: htfs@hyprotech.com