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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