The new CONVAL^® release 10 is now available for download.

Among others CONVAL^® 10 includes the following improvements:

Miscellaneous

• Enhanced properties calculation with a lot of fluids and improved support for mixtures
• Enhanced device and material databases with improved selection options

Control Valve

• Extended calculation of downstream resistances including the recalculation of an existing single or multi stage multi hole orifice plate configuration
• Improved sound prediction, calculation according IEC 60534-8-4 (2015) 
• Support of body materials with pressure and temperature curves

Differential Pressure Flow Element

• Supported flow elements:
  Orifices, Nozzles, Venturi, Averaging pitot tubes, Cone meter, Wedge flow meter, Integral flow orifice assembly
• Updated calculation standards
• Stress calculation for orifices 

Restriction Orifice Plate

• Improved calculation method considering the length of the cylindrical orifice
• Support for multi-hole orifices
• Revised forecast of choked-flow conditions

Pressure Loss

• Support of two-phase flow conditions 

Thermowells

• DIN 43772 (2000) for standardized and variable forms with up to three sections
• ASME PTC 19.3 TW (2016) with graphical stress analysis
• ASME PTC 19.3 (1974)

Details about other improvements and error corrections can be found on the download page in the version history and in the known bugs section.