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CASE STUDY

Stricter Emissions Regs. Aging Boilers. Kiewit Used Datacor Arrow to Find the Answer Before Breaking Ground.

 When reactivating a 1970s glycol heating system to protect a coal plant's air preheater from acid corrosion, Kiewit needed to know if the steam infrastructure could handle it. Arrow made the compressible flow math possible. 

A commercial power plant facing tightening emissions requirements had a fix in mind: reactivate an old glycol heating system to keep exhaust gas above the acid-gas dew point. The question was whether four aging coal boilers and a decades-old steam network could actually support it.

The compressible flow calculations were, by Kiewit's own account, near impossible to do by hand in any reasonable timeframe. So they didn't.

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