Case Study: Pilot Chemical Company achieves faster transient analysis with Datacor Impulse

Pilot Chemical Company runs Impulse nearly 13x faster with Datacor

Pilot Chemical Company was facing challenges with excessively long runtimes in their Impulse fluid transient analysis software from Datacor. These extended runtimes, which could take hours, made the process of analyzing and optimizing their pipe system models time-intensive and inefficient, hindering their engineering workflow.

Datacor's solution involved guiding Pilot Chemical Company through an optimization of their model's pipe sectioning process. By strategically adjusting pipe lengths to be multiples of a common base length, Datacor enabled the Impulse software to drastically reduce the number of computational sections required. This approach slashed the model's runtime from over three minutes to just 15.59 seconds—a 13x improvement—while maintaining result accuracy within a negligible 1-2 psi variance, enabling faster analysis without sacrificing reliability.

Pilot Chemical Company