| Version 8.33.2 (08.12.2020) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | Use of definition files was somewhat restricted. An error message could occur. |
| ATLAS System | In modules with combo boxes, definition files could no longer be used due to an internal problem. This problem consisted of the definition file being read out incorrectly. This has been fixed. |
| Version 8.33.1 (20.11.2020) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | A bug sometimes caused definition files to be read incorrectly. This bug refers to values stored with more than 10 digits. |
| T-OIL | An error has led to incorrect calculation of the properties of Fragoltherm HK. |
| Version 8.32.1 (02.03.2020) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | Cancel Printing crashed the Project Explorer. |
| Version 8.30.1 (25.09.2019) | |
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| Essential changes | |
| ATLAS System | NEW: QuickSheet: - Simple calculation of complex issues. Build your own LV calculation module, which exactly captures your problem. No programming effort. Enormous time savings for routine work. |
Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | Display of the chapter or chapter number in the footer of the program revised or adapted. |
| HCL | Density corrected at mass fractions between 30% and 40% at temperatures not equal to 20°C. |
Enhancements | |
| ATLAS System | Export to DOCX: behavior of page numbers and table of contents corrected. |
| ATLAS System | Evaluation of the validity area for calculated variables: In some cases, incorrect messages could occur. |
| ATLAS System | Existing communication with Excel can be transferred to another Excel table. Thus alternatives can be calculated simply. |
| ATLAS System | When connecting to Excel: "Save as..." in Excel was not recognized by the program as a change. |
| T-OIL | Extension of TOIL by 6 thermal oils and 5 high-temperature salts Thermal oils: Marlotherm XC Marlotherm XD Cassida Fluid DC 32 Perfecto HTS 0801 Renolin Therm 380 S Renolin Therm 330 S High temperature salts: ASD (HTS) Thermo-Solar Salt MS-1 MS-2 MS 450 |
| HFO | Message when leaving the range of validity |
| Version 8.29.1 (10.04.2019) | |
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| Essential changes | |
| ATLAS System | LV VISUAL: New visualization of the problem formulation (BETA version) |
Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | The program could crash when printing very large files. |
| ATLAS System | Feezing: Proposed amount to be requested was exceptionally too low. |
| ATLAS System | Problems could arise if two parameter studies were performed consecutively. |
| ATLAS System | Parameter study did not work if the "Wait" option was set at the same time. |
| ATLAS System | Print: Module description was not always printed |
| ATLAS System | The special menu was not displayed correctly after a change. |
| CO2, LUFT, N2, O2 | Some physical properties were wrongly interpolated near the boiling point. The compressibility factor is now calculated and no longer taken from the table. The calculation is performed according to Z = P/(Rho-T)-M/R0. The compressibility factors are not calculated for states on the boiling curve. |
| N6, SOWU | On the mask, the performance coefficient was referred to as the "area reserve". |
Enhancements | |
| ATLAS System | The description of the module in the module selection was not displayed completely if it was too long. |
| AC, COIL, NH3 | The setting "Saturation Yes/No" in module NH3 can now be set independently for both states. |
| CO2 | Calculation of the physical properties at pressures smaller than the triple pressure (state area solid gas). Differentiation of solid CO2 and steam by means of the sublimation pressure curve. Properties of solid CO2 are not calculated. |
| CO2 | New properties: The surface tension is now given. The boiling temperature of the system pressure is calculated. Indication of the phase state on the mask (liquid, gaseous or supercritical) |
| PROP | The names, formulas and concentrations of the media from the str file are now specified on the mask. |
| T-OIL | 12 new oils from Fragol and 4 already existing oils revised New oils: Fragoltherm® X-75-A Fragoltherm® DPO Fragoltherm® 660 Fragoltherm® 620 Fragoltherm® 550 Fragoltherm® HT Fragoltherm® HK Fragoltherm® F-N Fragoltherm® F-ADX10 Fragoltherm® F-12 Fragoltherm® F-LT Fragoltherm® X-T9-A Revised: Fragoltherm® Q-32-A Fragoltherm® Q-32-N Fragoltherm® S-15-A Fragoltherm® S-20-A |
| Version 8.28.1 (07.11.2018) | |
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| Essential changes | |
| ATLAS System | New Start Form! Completely revised concept for selecting required calculation modules. |
Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | After printing, graphics on the input mask disappeared. |
| ATLAS System | In some cases, the y-axis had a wrong scale in the parametric study. |
| ATLAS System | Error when using the command "Delete all connections of the module" |
| K3 | The emissivity of C02 could become negative at very low partial pressure. |
| RGAS | When entering the composition of the flue gas, negative values for the concentrations were possible. |
| TANK | The message "Product temperature is lower than ambient temperature. Heating with saturated steam is not possible", was shown, even if the product temperature was higher than the ambient temperature, |
| VGAS | The sum of concentrations of the gases is always 100%. Negative concentrations are not allowed. |
Enhancements | |
| ATLAS System | When a message was shown multiple times, the message windows was always on top. |
| Version 8.27.3 (24.09.2018) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| BREN | The average tube wall temperature is now calculated by means of using the average oil temperature of the inner coil. |
| COIL | When loading ATL files the entered inside diameter of the nozzle was overwritten by the value from the nozzle data base. |
Enhancements | |
| BREN | Flue gas temperature at second turn is now shown. |
| C1 | Range of validity for temperatures added. |
| T-OIL | New thermal oil 'Alaria 3' from Eni |
| Version 8.27.2 (23.09.2018) | |
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| Enhancements | |
| TANK | 1. Statement of cooling of the tank medium in 24 h without heating 2. Heating or cooling the tank mediuzm: Calculation of the required heating-up time with a given heating area 3. Heating with an external welded on half-pipe. |
| Version 8.27.1 (22.05.2018) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | Partially italic text parts in the input mask were wrapped incorrectly |
| ATLAS System | When activating a new licence file, a message is diplayed, asking to restart the program for the changes to take effect. |
| ATLAS System | Scenario Manager:: In case of empty columns in the Excel sheet between Variables of different chapters, some results were not calculated. |
| GLYC | Calculation of Prandtl number of ethylene glycol and propylene glycol: Results were not consistent with other properties |
Enhancements | |
| ATLAS System | New units for velocity: km/h and in/s |
| ATLAS System | You may now drag a variable from the navigation manager on the input mask to set a link. |
| ATLAS System | The currently selected variable is shown in the connection navigator even when it is already connected |
| ATLAS System | You may now delete the contents of ComboBoxes with the DEL key |
| G3 | You can now enter the tube wall thickness |
| Version 8.26.1 (21.02.2018) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | ComboBoxes, where the user could enter a value manually, closed immediately after first opening. |
| ATLAS System | When creating a new group, the TabStrip was not updated immediately. |
| ATLAS System | Creating a new chapter within an existing group: Chapter was not created within the group. |
| ATLAS System | When using the Scenario Manager with the option 'Print every Scenario' and there are messages at the same time: The messages are presented as message boxes when printing. This is not the case anymore if the user includes the messages in the printing. |
| ATLAS System | Conversion from t to kg was not possible |
| ATLAS System | If a Proxy server was selected for Feezing, the settings were not saved. |
| ATLAS System | The wrong chapter name was displayed in the variable monitor, if the name of the chapter was changed manually. |
| ATLAS System | You could not print to an unmapped network drive |
| ATLAS System | Printing to printer with post script driver (PC L6) was not possible |
| Doku | Special characters in file names are now allowed when including RTF files and DOCX files. |
Enhancements | |
| ATLAS System | When selecting an entry in a ComboBox, it is immediately interpreted as input. Up to know you had to press the enter button. |
| ATLAS System | Loading an ATL file was not possible if the file was containing a module, which is not part of the program package or not unlocked. Now you can at least load the modules which are unlocked. |
| COIL, KOND, VERD, WTS | When opening the explorer for selecting a new tube sheet library (Spie.mdb) teh current path is pre-defined. |
| FRIG | "Boiling state Yes/No" now with ComboBox |
| TANK | Volume and weight of the tank medium is now shown in the input mask. |
| TIME | When selecting the option 'Heating/cooling' the weight and the specific heat capacity of the vessel medium and the weight and the specific heat capacity of the vessel may be entered. The weight and the specific heat capacity of the overall system are then calculated. |
| T-OIL | Nine new silicon oils from Fragol
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| Version 8.25.1 (22.11.2017) | |
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| Essential changes | |
| ATLAS System | New printing option: Printing to Microsoft Word DOCX. |
Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | In the conversion of units a wrong unit was marked, if the variable in the ATL file contained a differing unit than the standard unit. |
| ATLAS System | When using the slider with the mouse, sometimes the slider made more than one step. |
| ATLAS System | Formatted texts on graphics not printed correctly. |
| ATLAS System | Error when entering variables of dimension 'mechanical stress', when standard input unit for pressure was set to 'bar'. |
| ATLAS System | Input mask zoom corrected. |
| ATLAS System | Dimensionless variables were always displayed as 0 in the variable monitor. |
| ATLAS System | Some dimensionless variables were not displayed in the navigator or shown as 0. |
| ATLAS System | Changing size of window using arrow keys and then 'Enter' -> Size of window was changed to the previously set value. |
| ATLAS System | When printing to RTF and setting the 'Number of first page' greater than 1: Page numbers in printed documents were not correct. |
| ATLAS System | When loading a file, equations might cover variable fields partially |
| ATLAS System | No values in conversion of units of locked input fields |
| G4 | When connecting to other modules, the pressure was not connected. |
| NH3 | Error when calculating the boiling temperature for state 2 with temperatures below 0 °C. Values at P = 0.1 · Pc were updated according to VDI Heat Atlas 11th edition. (These values are required in the VERD program) |
| T-OIL | The entries on the input mask 'Former product' and 'Range of application' were not deleted when selecting a new oil, if there were no entries for this new oil. |
Enhancements | |
| ATLAS System | LV Optimiser separated from LV Scenario Manager |
| ATLAS System | Visio interface optimised. |
| COIL | New: EXCEL specification sheet in French |
| COIL, KOND, VERD, WTS | In the EXCEL specification sheet the mass flows are inserted in the rows liquid or gas depending on their state of phase (liquid or gaseous). |
| COIL, KOND, VERD, WTS | Specification sheets now xltx format and xltm format (Macro), but you can still use the old specification sheets. |
| Version 8.24.2 (25.09.2017) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | Unit Inch could not be saved as (") |
Enhancements | |
| BREN | Calculation of orifices in BREN module using DROS module The dynamic viscosity of the medium transferred to DROS was too small. There was only a small deviation at the pressure drop calculation in the orifice. |
| T-OIL | If there is no value for the vapour pressure of the oil, '0' is displayed. |
| Version 8.24.1 (07.09.2017) | |
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| Essential changes | |
| ATLAS System | Printing to PDF creates automatic bookmarks from the chapter headlines |
| T-OIL | New thermal oil: Laurol HT 32 |
Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | When activating 'Split window' the lower part of the window was empty. |
| ATLAS System | You could not show help for individual input fields, which were locked for input. |
| ATLAS System | The menu item 'Switch on/off WAIT" did not change the corresponding button. |
| EQU | Connection of resulting variables of value 0 was not possible. |
| J1.4 | Iteration of phase layer temperature now without giving a starting value. Vapour pressure curve: Lee-Kesler equation replaced by Ambrose-Walton equation. |
| J1.5 | Iteration of phase layer temperature now without giving a starting value. Vapour pressure curve: Lee-Kesler equation replaced by Ambrose-Walton equation. Wapour pressure curve of water added. |
Enhancements | |
| ATLAS System | Entering values in the conversion of units is now possible |
| ATLAS System | The units for display are now taken from the loaded ATL file. |
| COIL | Volume flows are stated in the EXCEL specification sheet. For condensation the mass flows of vapour and condensate at inlet and outlet are stated as well. |
| COIL, KOND, VERD, WTS | EXCEL specification sheet template now available in XLTM format supporting macros |
| Visio | Colouring of Visio shapes revised. Legibility improved. |
| Version 8.23.1 (11.07.2017) | |
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| Essential changes | |
| ATLAS System | The small blue squares in an input field, indicating that there is information concerning this variable, are replaced by small blue question marks. The functionality stays the same. |
| ATLAS System | Help files are always displayed online and are not downloaded beforehand. If you need an offline help, please ask us how to proceed manually. |
| ATLAS System | Error with printing of big projects solved. When printing big projects, containing many modules and equations, a program crash was possible. Printing a file is now a separate process. While printing you can now continue working with the program or even close the program. |
Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | Scenario Manager: If the user entered a unit in Excel, incompatible with the internal unit of the variable it was possible that it resulted in wrong values. Now there is a message and the user can decide whether to continue the scenario calculation or abort it and correct the error. |
| ATLAS System | Definition files can now save text and material data. |
| ATLAS System | Undo or Redo actions resulted in errors displaying text blocks on the input mask. |
| ATLAS System | Message list was always displayed in the foreground, even if there was no new message. |
| ATLAS System | The module name entered by the user was cut after 60 characters. |
| ATLAS System | After multiple undo actions, it might have been possible that not all states could be restored (redo). The user setting 'Number of possible undo steps' was not saved. |
| ATLAS System | Error solved when starting a parametric study by entering in an input filed (e.g. '0,1...8') In some cases the parametric study was started but no results for depending variables were calculated or displayed. |
Enhancements | |
| ATLAS System | Printing: The module title is always printed, if you have renamed a module. The option to unselect printing the title was removed. |
| TANK | When heating the medium in the tank with steam, the condensation of the saturated steam is calculated according VDI Heat Atlas chapter J1.3. |
| Version 8.22.1 (12.04.2017) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| Doku | When including RTF files with file names with umlauts, the file was not included. Now there is a message, that the file name must be changed. |
| DROS | In some configurations it was not possible to make a back-calculation at all values (diameter, flow, pressure drop). This is now enabled. |
| F2.1, F2.2, F3, F4 | When calculating the heat transfer with free convection and negative coefficient of thermal expansion (e.g. water under 4 °C) there was a negative heat transfer coefficient. |
| RGAS, VGAS | When connecting VGAS (combustion calculation) and RGAS (flue gas) wit the option 'known composition', the program did not connect the fraction of the individual components. |
Enhancements | |
| BREN | Calculation of orifices revised |
| Version 8.21.1 (02.02.2017) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| COIL | With condensation, the physical properties of liquid phase and gas phase are transferred to the specification sheet. |
Enhancements | |
| VISIO | LV Visio AddIn with enhanced shapes |
| Version 8.20.2 (09.12.2016) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | Display of external messages forced |
| Version 8.20.1 (18.11.2016) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| VISIO | Visio interface |
| VISIO | Connection of two identical modules via VISIO enabled |
| Version 8.19.1 (14.09.2016) | |
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| Essential changes | |
| ATLAS System | New start-up: When starting strength calculation package the Project module is shown instead of the treeview. |
Bug Fixes | |
| ATLAS System | Show group name in Navigator |
| ATLAS System | Coefficients of expansion are always shown as {xy}/K. |
| ATLAS System | Bug fixed: Sometimes messages were not displayed. |
| AC, COIL, KOND, VERD, WTS | New medium available: Oxygen O2 |
| CO2 | The physical properties of CO2 have been updated according to VDI Heat Atlas, 11th Edition |
| Version 8.18.1 (08.07.2016) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| C1 | Countercurrent flow was not displayed. |
| G2 | Calculation of heat transfer in flat annulus now also possible for transition area of laminar and turbulent flow. |
| Version 8.15.1 (02.02.2016) | |
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| Bug Fixes | |
| SaWa | The kinematic viscosity was calculated too high by a factor of 1000. |