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RISE Structural Design's Innovative Approach to Pipe Stress and Structural Analysis in Methanol Plant

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RISE Structural Design, Inc., a Tokyo-based company specializing in structural design and analysis, was tasked with a pipe stress analysis project at a methanol plant in Japan. The project required the company to perform pipe stress analysis on pipes near the plant’s furnace, which operated at temperatures ranging from 300 to 900 degrees Celsius. The company was responsible for delivering accurate assessments and reducing costs for steel materials. One of the challenges was installing spring supports to ensure the piping system’s flexibility to react to the furnace’s extreme temperatures. The project also required effective coordination across various design teams, such as structural and piping, to avoid delays. Traditional workflows, where each discipline conducts their analyses independently and uses different conditions, were not suitable for this project. This traditional approach made it nearly impossible to create 3D data and increased analysis time.
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RISE Structural Design, Inc. is a company based in Tokyo, Japan, that specializes in structural design and analysis for overseas plant, building, and piping design. The company is known for its work in seismic diagnosis, where it identifies situations and formulates proposals based on its broad experience in providing safe and durable structural design and piping analysis. For this project, RISE was contracted to perform pipe stress analysis at a methanol plant in Japan, with the responsibility of delivering accurate assessments and reducing costs for steel materials.
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To overcome these challenges, RISE used Bentley’s AutoPIPE, a software that can manage thousands of nodes and segments, to keep the design’s progress on schedule. The application’s quick processing speed enabled the design team to analyze more complex models in less time. The team also used STAAD’s pipelink function to create conjoined models of the piping and framework, which automatically joined the beams at support points. This approach helped reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Bentley’s integrated structural modeling (ISM) solutions were used for coupling analysis, which helped RISE reduce inefficient work processes, including checking differences in design policies between departments, adjusting schedules, and reducing project delivery costs. The integration of models improved analysis efficiency and led to a decrease in design costs.
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The use of Bentley’s AutoPIPE and STAAD’s pipelink function allowed RISE to effectively coordinate among the multi-discipline design team, avoiding potential delays. The software enabled the creation of linked models of the piping and framework, automatically joining the beams at support points. This not only ensured the piping system’s flexibility to react to extreme temperatures but also helped reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The use of Bentley’s integrated structural modeling (ISM) solutions for coupling analysis eliminated inefficient work processes and improved analysis efficiency. This led to a decrease in design costs and a more economical design. The success of this project has convinced RISE of the immense benefits of making coupling analysis the standard design method for plant engineering and construction.
The application’s processing speed enabled the design team to analyze more complex models in a shorter amount of time.
Bentley applications reduced coupling analyses by 10 times, compared to using other software options.
Using Bentley’s ISM solutions reduced inefficient work processes, including checking differences in design policies among departments.
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