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PV Elite Training - Lesson One, Video One

(Reference Video: PVE_L1_V1)

1. To start PV Elite, go to the icon on the desktop screen, and

double-click it.

The program takes a moment to open, and then you see the main
screen.

2. You can see another small screen that opens up and just for the moment, let’s completely
ignore it. Click OK.

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3. Now we can start building our vessel.

 
4. Now, before we start building our vessel, it is very good to actually save the model first.
Click Save.

5. You see the Save As screen, so give the model a name. I'll give it the name Test 1, then I hit
save. You must save this in a file where you can find it again or a folder where you can find it
again. Type a name for the model, and then click Save.
 

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6. Now we can see the name of the file is displayed at the top of the PV Elite window.

7. We are now ready to begin. We're going to build a vessel using the metric system. If you look
at the Units/Code panel, you see by default that we are using English units.
 

8. Now, we're going to change this so that it operates in the metric system. So we go to tools, you
can see this tab in the list of tabs. Click the Tools tab.

9. If you look on the Tools tab, you can see an icon that says Select Units. Click Select Units.

10. You see the Open dialog box

with the units file open. In the
units file, we look for a units
file called Newtons.fil. This is
the file for the metric system.
Click Newtons.fil, and then
click Open.

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11. We can see all the conversion factors, which I'm going to worry about later on. You don't have
to worry about it now. Click OK.

12. So, we've saved the file, and we've changed the units to metric units. Now we are ready to
start.

13. Before we start, you have to click the Home tab. After you click the Home tab, you then have
all the icons that we use to build the vessel.
 

At the moment, we are only going to use the icons on the Elements panel. In fact, we're only
going to use three of them.

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14. So let's, first of all, put it in a head. Click Ellipse.

15. Now, it's always good to give the components names. So we're just going to call this the
bottom head. Click Element Description in Element Data, and then type Bottom Head.

16. Now, the inside diameter is 1,000 mm. Click Inside Diameter, mm or press Enter to get to
the same in Element Data, and then type 1000.

17. The straight flange is 50 mm, it's about 2 inches. There is the straight flange at each end of the
elliptical head. It is the little distance outlined below. You are going to see this in more detail a
little bit later on.
 

18. Notice that we have two tabs here. We have a tab called 2D View
and a tab called 3D view.

19. Click the 3D View tab.

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We receive a 3D view of the model, where we can see the elliptical head.

Grab the elliptical head and pull down to view more:

20. We now continue putting information in Element Data. We know that the corrosion allowance is
going to be 3 MM. Click Internal Corrosion Allowance, and then type 3.

21. You may wonder why I haven't put in the thickness. Well, the reason should be very clear a
little bit later.

22. Now, we're going to put in the internal pressure, which is 1.5 MPa.
Click Internal Pressure, MPa, and then type 1.5.

23. We're going to put in the temperature, which is about 200 degrees Celsius.
Click Temp. for Internal Pressure, and then type 200.

24. We're going to put in an external pressure, 0.1 MPa. 0.1 MPa is around about 15 psi, which
you're probably more familiar with. Click External Pressure, MPa, and then type 0.1.

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25. We can put in the temperature for the external pressure as also 200. Click Temp. for External
Pressure, and then type 200.

26. Now, one of the things we can do, we can change the material. At the moment we have the
material SA-51617.
 

Let’s change this material so that we have a stainless

steel.

If you look at the Utility panel, you can see an icon

shaped like a little cylinder. This icon is called Select
Material. Click Select Material.

You'll notice that you're going to get about 2000

materials in the ASME Section II Part D, Customary
dialog box.

27. It can take quite some time to find a material. There is, however, a quick method of doing it.
We want to use the 316 material, 316 is stainless steel. Under Search Options in the
Material Search String, type SA240316.

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28. If you look in the Material Name column, you’ll notice that a grey bar appears over the material
that you just typed in. Click the grey bar.

We receive information about the selected material in the Material Properties dialog box.

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