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Akton Associates Psychrometrics 7.0 - OVERVIEW

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Akton Psychrometrics 7.0 is a Windows based software program that enables users to perform detailed complex psychrometric and process analysis. Psychrometric charts are graphically displayed right on your computer screen in real-time as the analysis is performed. Complete state point thermo-physical property and process value report is automatically generated.  Both charts and reports can be printed, exported to PDF for easy emailing or copied to the clipboard for pasting into presentations, proposals or spreadsheets.

Akton Psychrometrics 6.0 dry-bulb temperature range is -100 to +2,000 °F, humidity ratios up to 1 lb/lb, altitudes up to   45,000 ft (pressure=0.2 psia) or pressures up to 100 psia ,both IP and SI units,and reports and charts in 13 different languages. Process modelling includes cooling coil with proper cooling coil curves, air mixing, desiccant dehumidification, evaporative cooling, sensible cooling, sensible heating and humidification.

SPRAY DRYER PROCESS

 

 Version 7 (*.aad) Opens Version 4, 5 or 6 Files (*.psy) Seamlessly!

 

 

 

 

Examples

SPRAY DRYER EXAMPLE CHART

SPRAY DRYER EXAMPLE FLOW CHART

INDUSTRIAL HIGH TEMPERATURE CHART

COMMERCIAL HVAC/R TEMPERATURE CHART

EXAMPLE CHART WITH PROCESS PLOT

EXAMPLE REPORT WITH PROCESS DATA

EXAMPLE FLOW CHART

EXAMPLE CHART WITH BIN WEATHER

 

 

Akton Psychrometrics - FEATURES

 

Akton Psychrometrics 7.0 produces the highest quality, interactive psychrometric charts available. The program allows the user to perform complex psychrometric and process analysis. The program also provides a professional state point and process report detailing all of the psychrometric and process values as well as a schematic flow chart of the system. Some of the base features include:

  • Complete state-point and system process analysis allows you to model a wide range of processes including air mixing, cooling coil, evaporative cooling, desiccant dehumidification, humidification and sensible heating & cooling. All processes can either have an end-point specified, calculating process data, or process data specified, calculating an end-point result.

  • Complete chart control allows you to specify virtually any altitude, turn lines on & off, set process line colors and widths, specify state point icons, sizes and label fonts.

  • Complete project information and note capabilities are available. Notes are individually controlled allowing for font, color, border, and background to all be specified for each note. It also includes complete drag-and-drop functionality as well as "new-edit-delete" note management.

  • All charts, state-points and process values can be converted between IP and SI units with the click of a button.

  • Any text on the psychrometric chart can be displayed in thirteen (13) different Languages.

  • Right-click pop-up menus allow for easy control of the chart whether it's moving state-point labels or managing chart notes. Left double-click automatically zooms-in and right double-click automatically zooms-out. Hold the left button down and drag allows you full panning of the chart.

  • The program includes a 1400-city climatic database so that elevation values can easily be selected.

VERSION 7 - NEW FEATURES (Released Aug-2011)

NEW PROCESS ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES

·         New! Updated ASHRAE Datacenter Zones to 2011 Thermal Guidelines!

·         New! Updated ASHRAE 2010 Comfort Zones!

·         New! Re-arrange or Re-order Points on the Fly with One Button Click!

·         New! TMY2 & TMY3 Bin Weather USA Locations Added!

·         New! Ability to Select Days Per Week for Bin Weather Data & Plots!

·         New! HDClimatic Updated to 2009 ASHRAE Fundamentals!

·         New! Import Your Own Weather Data File Locations into the Chart!

·         New! Optional Process Directional Arrowheads on Process Lines!

·         New! Ability to Print-All or PDF-All (Psy+Flow+Report) into ONE File!

·         New! Cooling Coil Apparatus Dew Point (ADP) Calculator!

·         New! Cooling Coil Air Bypass Factor (ABF) Calculator!

·         New! Improved Air Mixing Algorithm with both Mass and Energy Balance!

·         New! User Program Quantity Expanded from 15 to 25 Programs!

NEW TOOLS

·         New! Evaporative Cooling Detailed Performance Calculator!

·         New! Electric Heater Detailed Performance Calculator!

·         New! Indoor Pool Evaporation Calculator!

·         New! SMACNA Air Leak Class Calculator!

·         New! Center of Gravity - Corner Load Calculator!

·         New! Pump Law Calculator!

·         New! Complete Inter-Active Element Periodic Chart!

·         New! System Efficiency COP-EER-kW/ton Calculator!

·         New! Total & Sensible Wheel Energy Recovery Performance Calculator!

·         New! Plate Heat Exchanger Energy Recovery Performance Calculator!

·         New! NIST Fluid & Mixture Thermo-Physical Property Calculator!

·         New! Rectangle & Round Duct Fittings added to HDDuctDesigner!

·         New! Duct Temp Gain/Loss Calculator added to HDDuctDesigner!

·         New! Duct Pitot Airflow Calculator added to HDDuctDesigner!

·         New! Motor Heat Calculator Updated for Total P & Efficiency Input!

·         New! Motor Heat Calculator Updated for Static P & Efficiency Input!

·         New! Heat Index Calculation Tool!

NEW PRESENTATION CONTROL

·         New! Ability to Turn Logo On & Off, for ASHRAE Meeting “Generic” Presentations!

·         New! Customize Psychrometric Charts with your own Colors!

·         New! Change Any Chart Property Lines to Any COLOR You Choose!

·         New! Change Any Chart Property Lines to Any Line TYPE You Choose!

·         New! Change Any Chart Property Lines to Any Line THICKNESS You Choose!

·         New! Improved Toolbar and Menu Control Setup!

·         New! User-Defined Custom Area Shading right on the Chart!

·         New! Ability to Specify Weather Plot Data Point Colors!

·         New! Ability to Specify Weather Plot Data Point Size!

·         New! Updated ASHRAE 2010 Comfort Zones!

·         New! Optional Process Directional Arrowheads on Process Lines!

·         New! Ability to Hide State Point Label on a Point-By-Point basis!!

·         New! Draw Your Own Lines Anywhere You Want!

·         New! Draw Your Own Ellipses Anywhere You Want!

·         New! Draw Your Own Rectangles Anywhere You Want!

·         New! Draw Your Own Circles Anywhere You Want!

·         New! Insert Your Own Pictures Anywhere You Want!

NEW LANGUAGES

·         New! Languages, Now with (20) Different Languages on Charts and Reports with one button click!

·         New! Catalan Language!

·         New! Croatia Language!

·         New! Czech Language!

·         New! Finish Language!

·         New! Latin Language!

·         New! Polish Language!

·         New! Turkish Language!

NEW DATA EXCHANGE

·         New! Point Color Control when Importing Data from Excel (*.csv) files!

·         New! Point Size Control when Importing Data from Excel (*.csv) files!

·         New! Process Line Color Control when Importing Data from Excel (*.csv) files!

·         New! Process Line Thickness Control when Importing Data from Excel (*.csv) files!

·         New! Import Your Own Weather Data File Locations into the Chart!

NEW NOTES

·         New! Improved Note Controls!

NEW GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

·         New! Added Apparatus Dew Point (ADP) to Cooling Coil Leaving Air Calculator!

·         New! Added Air Bypass Factor (ABF) to Cooling Coil Leaving Air Calculator!

·         New! Point property toolbar display now includes units of measure!

·         New! Thermal Comfort Terms Definition PDF Manual!

·         New! Improved Air Density Property Calculation!

·         New! Corrected Japanese Language!

·         New! Many minor bugs and improvements implemented!
 

VERSION 6 - NEW FEATURES (Released Jan-2007)

NEW PROCESS ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES

·         New! Auto Flow Chart Diagram

·         New! Individual Process Line Color Control

·         New! Individual Point Color, Shape and Size Control

·         New! Winter "V" Air Mixing Capability with Condensation

·         New! Fog Region Property Display

·         New! Constant h, WB, HR, DB Line Control

NEW TOOLS

·         New! Complete Thermal Comfort Calculator

·         New! Weather Data Plotting with Complete Global Weather Files

·         New! Weather Bin Shade Plotting with Complete Control

·         New! Global Weather Data Table Access

·         New! Weather Term Glossary

·         New! Wind Chill Factor Calculator

·         New! Climatic Data Printing Capability Added

·         New! Outside Air Estimator UPDATED to ASHRAE Standard 62-2004

NEW PRESENTATION CONTROL

·         New! Humidity Ratio Unit of Measure Control

·         New! Mouse Cross-Hair (Like CAD!!) or Target Control

·         New! Cooling Coil Performance Line Control

·         New! Page Color Control

·         New! Chart Area Color Control

·         New! ASHRAE Class 1 through 4 Datacenter Zones (allowed & recommended)

·         New! NEBS Datacenter Zones (allowed & recommended)

·         New! Black & White <=> Color Display & Print Control

·         New! Heading On/Off Control

·         New! Outline On/Off Control

·         New! Zoom Window Control

NEW TOOLBOX ANALYSIS

·         New! Ability to add user defined "ToolBox" Programs under menu item tools

·         New! Single & Double Interpolation Calculator

·         New! Fan Law Calculator

·         New! Duct Sizing Calculator

·         New! Loan Calculator 

NEW ADDITIONAL CAPABILITIES

·         New! High Pressure Capability up to 100 PSI

·         New! Auto-Altitude Change with Climatic Location Selection

·         New! Fog Region Thermo-Physical Property Display

NEW LANGUAGES

·         New! Now with (13) Different Languages on Charts and Reports with one button click

·         New! Greek Language

·         New! Japanese Language

·         New! Dutch Language

·         Improved Italian Language Updated

NEW DATA EXCHANGE

·         New! REAL-TIME Data Monitoring Capability

·         New! Process Control added to Data Import Function

·         New! Complete Weather Data Export to Excel or Text File

·         New! SI units added to text file & Excel Data Exchange

·         New! Export-As Excel *.csv File

·         New! Export-As Notepad *.txt File

NEW NOTE CONTROLS

·         New! Improved Note Control Update
 

VERSION 5 - NEW FEATURES (Released Jan-2005)

NEW PROCESS ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES

·         New! Sensible Heat Ratio Line Plotting

·         New! Humidification Delta-Enthalpy / Delta-Humidity Ratio Line Plotting

·         New! Partial Mixing of Airstreams Allows for Component Mixing Bypass

·         New! Cooling Coil Leaving Air Calculator / Auto-Plotting

·         New! Organized Toolbar Menu Setup

NEW TOOLS

·         New! Air Collection Calculator with Auto-Plotting

·         New! Integral IP<=>SI Unit of Measure Calculator

·         New! Fresh Air Estimator Updated to 62-2001

·         New! Motor Heat Calculator

·         New! Steam Property Calculator

NEW PRESENTATION CONTROL

·         New! Custom Axis Range Control

·         New! Chart Altitude or Pressure Control

·         New! Lines ON/OFF Control

·         New! Process Line Color & Width Control

·         New! State Point Icon, Size Control, Color & Label Control

·         New! Comfort Zone Area Plotting

·         New! User information Saved/Displayed on Charts & Reports

·         New! Page Setup Control

NEW ADDITIONAL CAPABILITIES

·         New! Easy Auto-Create / Export PDF Files of Charts & Reports 

NEW LANGUAGES

·         New! Now (10) Languages including CHINESE

NEW DATA EXCHANGE

·         New! Complete Data Exchange Capabilities

NEW NOTES

·         New! Add/Edit/Delete Note Control with Drag-Drop Positioning

·         New! Project Information Control Displayed on Chart & Report

 

VERSION 4 - NEW FEATURES (Released Jan-2003)

NEW PROCESS ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES

·         New! Air Mixing Process

·         New! Cooling Coil Process (with REAL Cooling Coil Curves!)

·         New! Desiccant Dehumidification Process

·         New! Sensible Heating Process

·         New! Heating & Humidification Process

·         New! Evaporative Cooling Process

·         New! Sensible Only Cooling Process 

NEW TOOLS

·         New! Stand Alone Psychrometric Calculator

·         New! Stand Alone World-Wide Climatic Data

·         New! Stand Alone Outside Air Calculator based on ASHRAE Standard 62-89

NEW TOOLS

·         New! State Point and Process Report

·         New! Universal IP <=> SI Unit Control NEW ADDITIONAL CAPABILITIES

·         New! State Point Label Positioning Control

·         New! Zoom & Pan Control

·         New! Mouse-Move Thermo-Physical Property Display

NEW LANGUAGES

·         New! (7) Different Languages on Charts & Reports with one-button click

NEW DATA EXCHANGE

·         New! Ability to Copy Chart to Clipboard

·         New! Ability to Copy Report to Clipboard
 

 

 

Akton Psychrometrics - SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

 

Computer/Processor

Windows-based personal computer with a Intel Pentium processor or higher.
   
Memory For Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista, 16 MB of memory is required. More memory may be required to run additional applications simultaneously.
   
Hard Disk 70 MB of available hard-disk space required. More disk space will be required based upon how many equipment data files you require.
   
Drive CD-ROM Drive.
   
Display VGA or higher-resolution video adapter (1024 x 768 min. is preferred).
   
Operating System Windows 98, 2000, NT, ME, XP and Vista
   
Peripherals Printer

 

 

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