KYPipe Feature List

Advanced Error Check Feature. This feature creates a centralized list of Error Messages and Warning Messages compiled from decades of technical support and model troubleshooting experience, reporting both critical errors and settings changes (warnings) that may not be immediately apparent when the model is analyzed. This list can be generated before an Analysis has been run, placing the user just one click away from the List of Errors/Warnings before conductiong the analysis. See more here (Advanced Error Check).

Animated Maps Over Time

Animated Pipe Profiling

Automatic Demand Distribution

Automatic Junction Node Layout

Background Images

CAD & GIS, Import & Export

Calculate Branch Diameters

Check Valve Animation Tool

Check Valve Animation

Overview (KYPipe and Surge, KYnetic only). This tool shows the check valve position at all simulation times. it displays an animation of a check valve associated with a pump, showing positive pressure, sub-zero pressure and cavitation pressures in both the inlet and outlet side of the pump. Useful for diagnosing check valve slam and check valve chatter. Play the full simulation time from the beginning, or use a slider to freeze or go back for a portion of the simulation. View Pump Inlet and Outlet Pressure Gauges and Flow Arrows. Pressure gauges are shown within the animation with default or user-defined pressure ranges; the gauge needle turns red during periods of cavitation. Flows in and out of the pump are represented by vector arrows which change direction and scale. The scale can be left at the default setting or changed by the user. Immediately See Positive, Negative and Cavitation Pressures. The animation displays three different images for the water within the pump inlet and outlet pipes, depending on whether the pressure in the pipes is positive, negative but not cavitating, or below negative atmospheric pressures, indicating cavitation. Learn More

Check Valve Ratio Graph

This graph displays the position of the check valve throughout the simulation period, with a position of zero representing a fully-closed check valve, and a position of 1.0 representing fully-open check valve. This graph is available within the check valve animation feature and as part of the normal node output graph by clicking on any pump with a check valve. Thus the check valve position can be plotted against other output parameters such as suction and discharge pressure as well as pump speed. (KYnetic Only). Learn more

Demand Summary and Device Summary

Prior to Pipe2024, KYPipe incorporated a Total Inventory feature, which returned cost totals for the piping and devices within each model, along with an Inventory Report. The Inventory Report included summaries of Total Pipe Volume, a Fittings Summary and Fittings Cost(s). For Pipe2024, we have added a Demand Summary to the above features. The Demand Summary calculates the total demands present in the model, but also breaks down the demands by device type (Junction Demands, Residential Meters in pipes, and Metered Connection Nodes), and by Demand Type (e.g., R (Residential), Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, etc.). The Demand Summary also returns the current Global Demand Factor (which is normally 1.0 for average demands, > 1.0 for peak demands, and < 1.0 for slack demands). Last, this new feature incorporates a Device Summary which returns the total numbers of different devices (pumps, valves, tanks, etc.) in the model.

Demand Import from Excel by Address (Premium package only) or Lat/Long

Disinfectant Byproducts (DBP) Calculations

This feature allows users to calculate concentrations of disinfectant byproducts (DBPs) within a regular KYPipe Water Quality model. First, users select the analysis type, Chemical Concentration or Water Age. For tanks and reservoir nodes, the user inputs the initial chlorine concentration directly. For other point sources (Node Source Data), there are 4 different options to specify the chlorine levels – concentration, mass, flow-paced and set point. These values are converted into chlorine levels in mg/l. For all three types of nodes (tanks, reservoirs, and point sources), the software accommodates alterations to the source concentration levels based on the pattern data. For concentration-based analyses, the chlorine demand X at any point/time in the model is calculated by determining the average concentration of the chlorine residual at all sources (nodes), and then subtracting the calculated chlorine concentration at each individual node within the model. For Water Age-based DBP calculations, the Water Age is calculated at each individual node within the model throughout the course of the simulation. Learn more here (DBPs).

Contouring & Emphasis

Demand Types & Patterns

Device & Element Libraries

Device Parameter Range Analysis

Varies a parameter value within a specified range to see the effect on the system. The parameter is associated with a double-sided node such as a pump or valve. The user selects a parameter within the node input data, then defines an allowable range. The program will run multiple analyses simultaneously to output the variation in the remainder of system based on iterative values within the allowable range. For instance, vary the flow coefficient of a valve to see the effect on the system pressures and flows. This is a KYPipe-only feature, available within the KYnetic Interface and the KYnetic Ribbon Interface. (KYnetic Only). Learn more

Direct Parameter Calculations

Elements & Devices

Emphasize Pipes as Nodes

Expanded Rural Analysis (IPD & PDD Hydraulics)

Extended Period Simulation

Fittings Loss Coefficients

Flushing Planner & Analysis

Generate Change Pattern

Google Earth Import & Export

Google Maps & Google Elevations

Hydrant Color Coding

Hydrant Flow Calculation

Hydrant Monitor

Import Elevation Data

This feature allows users to import elevation data from a tab-delimited text file. Elevation data can be georeferenced by X, Y location relative to an origin point in map units (feet or meters), or using latitude-longitude coordinates (decimal degrees). In this manner, ground survey data points or lidar-collected data points can be imported for use as an Elevation Grid. The Elevation Grid allows the elevations of existing nodes to be automatically updated using interpolated grid elevations. Learn more.

Internet Elevation Retrieval & Background Maps

Intrusion Calculator

Users can click on a pipe to show the location of an intrusion, and the Intrusion Calculator indicates which valves to close to most efficiently isolate the point of the intrusion. This tool generates a report detailing the affected piping volume and the isolated areas: these are parts of the system not directly affected by the intrusion, but which are no longer connected to a source (tank, reservoir, other water system) due to the closed valves. Learn more

KYnetic Ribbon Menu (Expandable)

Locate Pressure Zones

Meters

Operational Control Screen

Optimal Design Module

Optimal Pump Placement (KYPipe Premium Package Feature, Currently in Beta)

Optimal Pump Placement Tool. This Tool selects fom a user-supplied list of availabe pumps, and generates the layout for a least-cost pump optimization plan along a single (unbranched) pipeline, considering the following factors for all available pump types:

Pump curves.
Unit cost.
Number of each type of pump in inventory.

It then selects and places the optimum number of pumps along the pipeline, maintaining a user-required minimum flow rate as well as both user-designated minimum and maximum system pressures.

Optimal Pump Scheduling

Optimal Water Quality Sensor Placement Tool

Optimized Calibration

Pipe Break Tool

The user specifies which portion of the system is affected by a pipe break. The pipes affected by the break and the nearest on/off or active valves are highlighted, showing which valves need to be closed in order to most efficiently isolate the break. Users can click on valves to open or close them and thus see different scenarios. This tool will create a report showing the pipes affected, the valves to close, the number of affected customers, and the volume of water within the affected pipes.

Pipe Pressure Ratings Exceedance Feature

The Pipe Ratings Exceedance feature combines several tools that help users to determine if pressures within the pipes in the model exceed their manufacturer’s pressure rating, at any point in the simulation. View more details at this link (Pipe Ratings Exceedance feature). These tools include: 1. Labels in the Map Area. These labels show the pipe pressure rating, and the amount by which the pipe pressure rating was exceeded. In the image shown below, a positive value for the rating exceedance indicates that the pipe has this much margin before its pressure rating is exceeded. The margin is 35.3 psi (200 -164.7 = 35.3 psi)). By convention, the negative sign means that the pressure rating has not yet been exceeded (the exceedance is negative, or said another way, the margin is positive).

2. Pipe Emphasis. The Pipe Emphasis tool uses a color-coded key to show which pipes exceed their pressure rating, and which pipes are flagged as cautionary – that is, they are within 10 psi of their pressure rating, but they have not yet exceeded the pressure rating. Pipes which have exceeded their rating are shown in red, and pipes with a cautionary warning are shown in yellow. Pipes which have not exceeded their pressure rating are shown in green. Units are psi:

3. Analysis Report. The Analysis Report lists all pipes that have exceeded their pressure rating, along with the pipe’s physical characteristics, and the amount by which the pressure rating was exceeded, in units of psi.

4. Animated Profile. The creates an Animated Profile with the pipe pressure rating graphed as a head value line, along with the pressure within the pipes of the model graphed as an HGL line: Wherever the HGL line of the model’s pressures rises above the pipe’s pressure rating line, that pipe’s pressure rating has been exceeded, and the pipe is displyed using a red color, see the image below. Units are feet of head: