Technical Paper

Cutting Costs in Pump and Pipe Sizing

Jan 06, 2026

Trey Walters, P.E.
Trey Walters is currently Principal, R&D, Engineering Software at Datacor. He previously founded Applied Flow Technology which is now part of Datacor. He has developed simulation software for pipe flow, system optimization, slurries, waterhammer, and pulsation modeling. He has 40 years of experience in thermal/fluid system engineering and has consulted in numerous industries including power, municipal water, oil & gas and chemicals. He holds both a Bachelor and Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He sits on several standards committees of the Hydraulic Institute and is Chairman of their Waterhammer Committee, and he is a Fellow of the ASME.

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Trey Walters, P.E. Datacor, Inc. - Published in Chemical Processing, June 2002

Datacor allows plants to achieve more cost-effective designs. Engineers can go beyond specifying their piping systems and identifying pumps that will do the job - now they can bring cost data directly into the pipe and pump-sizing process and access a new intelligent piping system design technology.

*The IntelliFlow® technology featured in this paper has since migrated from AFT Mercury and AFT Titan to become the Automated Network Sizing (ANS) Module for Fathom and Arrow. This module utilizes similar methods to provide the cost minimization as presented in this paper.