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How to Connect Equipment with Flow Streams

In AggFlow, material, slurry and water passing from one piece of equipment to another is known as a Flow Stream. Flow streams can be connected to equipment or to other flow streams.

Flow stream are used to move material from equipment to join other flow streams or to feed directly into other equipment. Equipment can only have one discharge flow stream, but multiple flow streams can feed into equipment or into other flow streams. Clicking on equipment shows the flow stream connection points. Black and blue squares are flow stream start points, and white and green squares are flow stream end points.

Equipment groups for flow steams are as follows:

This equipment is a start point shown as a black square.

This equipment has a feed connection (white square) and a single discharge (black square)

This equipment has a feed connection and multiple (i.e. 4) discharge connection points. Each discharge will need to be connected in the simulation.

This equipment has a feed connection, and is linked to another page (black square shown). The discharge will need to be started on the linked page.

This equipment has a feed connection, and is linked to another stage (black square not shown). The discharge will need to be started on the linked stage.

This equipment is an end point for material flow. It has a feed connection and no discharge.

This equipment has a feed and discharge connection and has a clean water discharge connection (blue square). The blue square can only be connected to a clean water source.

Clean water source equipment can be connected (green square) from equipment with a clean water discharge ( Blue square ). It can be connected (from blue square) to other clean water equipment and be connected to wash equipment that accepts added water.

This equipment can be connected from clean water equipment (blue square). It can be connected (from black square) to other clean water equipment and be connected to wash equipment that accepts added water.

To Start and Connect a Flow Stream

Select the machine or inventory item that is the starting point for the flow stream (it will turn blue).
Right-click the black square on the machine: A finger icon appears. This indicates that you are now creating a flow stream.
As you move your mouse, you will see a line that moves like a “rubber band”. This line indicates the flow stream.
Drag the Flow Stream to any point (piece of equipment, inventory item, product or other flow stream) on the worksheet. You will see one of these indicators:
When the target circle on the termination point appears, click to connect the flow stream (the direction of the mouse arrow is irrelevant). A red target indicates a connection to a piece of equipment or a product. An orange target indicates a connection to another flow stream.
Flow streams can be converted to slurry pipes or from slurry pipes to flow streams (see converting flow streams to slurry pipes).
Clean water flow streams (pipes) are only permitted for clean water flow and can only connect between equipment connections and not to other flow streams.

Flow streams appear as dashed lines ( - - - - ) until there is some material in the flow, then they convert to a solid line ( ____ ). Flow lines with added water will also appear as dashed lines unless there is material in the flow.

If a flow line is started unintentionally, double clicking will exit insertion of a flow line.

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