ARC Valve Sizing Web Application

J. Christopher Gibbs

Presented April 2006

Advisor: Walter Turner

My employer, Tyco Valves & Controls produces various pressure relief and control valves for industrial use.  These valves are primarily used to insure the protection of lives and property.  An Automatic Recirculation Control (ARC) Valve is a valve that is designed to protect property in the form of a pump.  The purpose of this project was to develop a web based application that interfaces with a customer of limited knowledge and properly size and select a valve for their application.

The web application interface is ASP.NET with C# code-behind, with various business logic, utility and data access DLLs also written in C#.   These project pieces were built using the Visual Studio.NET 2003 IDE.  The database engine is Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and in addition to the various tables to hold the data, several stored procedures were written / generated to facilitate interaction with the data access layer of the primary system.

The project test site can be viewed at the following address.

http://sizing.tycovalves.com/arcsizingtest