Software design of float valve tower based on Visual Basic 6.0

SI Haifei, WU En, YANG Zhong
(Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Jinling Institute of Technology, Nanjing 211169, China)

Abstract: Aiming at the low efficiency of float valve tower manual design and inaccuracy of its calculation results and on basis of manual design methods and engineering practice, combining the merits and demerits of development environment of the visual programming language (Visual Basic 6.0) in electromechanical system software development, Visual Basic 6.0 was used to develop float valve tower design software, which have already realized the rapid design of float valve tower and quick drawings of valve tray layout and capacity graph of valve tray as well as using the EXCEL to output structural calculation parameters and hydraulic calculation parameters. The results and applied analysis indicate that the designed Visual Basic 6.0 based on float valve tower has friendly interface, accurate calculation results. The software is available for engineering design or teaching, while the used methods and techniques have certain reference value for the development of other industrial utility software.
Key words: Visual Basic 6.0; float valve tower; valve tray layout; capacity graph