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GEA optimizes design program for refrigeration plants: ValveCalc 7.5 offers new functions and calculation tools
03 May 2023
GEA AWP expands and optimizes the refrigeration design program ValveCalc with additional content and functions. The new ValveCalc 7.5 can also be used to dimension branched safety and overflow blowoff lines complete with pipes, bends, transitions and other possible components.
GEA AWP presents ValveCalc 7.5, the refrigeration design program that has been enhanced and optimized with additional content and functions (Screenshot: GEA).
It provides a design environment for graphically mapping and editing a pipe network. Using drag-and-drop, essential components such as safety valves, vessels and pipes can be inserted to build up the structure of the network. Integrated input masks are used to define additionally required data, such as refrigerant, outlet pressure and the calculation standard to be used. The user can thus compile all sections and valves of his plant himself online with ValveCalc 7.5.
Complex project processing optimized and content revised and updated
The new version ValveCalc 7.5 has been optimized visually with regard to the user interface and the view on printout sheets, and new languages such as Korean, Chinese, Polish and Italian have been added. On the other hand, there are far-reaching content relaunches. The critical velocity is taken into account in the calculation of the branched lines calculations of safety valves as well as the different fire sections in the calculation. For the respective calculation section, new online video tutorials are available with ValveCalc 7.5.
Through the revised program, updated new product types are now also available such as WVR AL DN15-DN100, SFCS and FT in larger dimensions. In addition, there is the possibility to calculate with own fittings and components. Thus, there is an update to the latest standard for safety valve calculation, EN13136.
Apart from the above-mentioned content innovations, version 7.5 will be available both as a downloadable and installable program, as well as a virtual desktop infrastructure in a cloud. Due to the innovative streaming technology used, ValveCalc 7.5 can be used via the browser. This eliminates, for example, restrictions due to security policies within company networks. ValveCalc is operated on a high-performance infrastructure in a DSGVO-compliant, German data center, so that users with less powerful computers can also benefit from the program's high response speed, especially when it comes to resource-intensive processing steps.
New version available for free
ValveCalc 7.5 is available to customers free of charge upon request.
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Dr. Michael Golek
About GEA
GEA is one of the world’s largest suppliers of systems and components to the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries.
The international technology group, founded in 1881, focuses on machinery and plants, as well as advanced process technology, components and comprehensive services. For instance, every second pharma separator for essential healthcare products such as vaccines or novel biopharmaceuticals is produced by GEA. In food, every fourth package of pasta or every third chicken nugget are processed with GEA technology.
With more than 18,000 employees, the group generated sales of about EUR 5.5 billion in more than 150 countries in the 2025 fiscal year. GEA plants, processes, components and services enhance the efficiency and sustainability of customers’ production. They contribute significantly to the reduction of CO2 emissions, plastic usage and food waste. In doing so, GEA makes a key contribution toward a sustainable future, in line with the company’s purpose: ”Engineering for a better world.”
GEA is listed on the German MDAX, the European STOXX® Europe 600 Index and is also a constituent of the leading sustainability indices DAX 50 ESG, MSCI Global Sustainability and Dow Jones Best-in-Class World.
