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CASE STUDY

How Kiewit Validated a 725MW Circulating Water System

 When a pump trip in a combined cycle power plant can cascade into a major transient event, "probably fine" is not an engineering answer. See how Kiewit Power Engineers modeled every failure scenario before construction began. 

At the Woodbridge Energy Center in New Jersey, Kiewit's mechanical engineering team faced a high-stakes challenge: validate that a large-scale circulating water system could withstand both catastrophic and routine transient events, without waiting until the plant was online to find out.

Using Datacor Impulse, they transitioned directly from their steady-state Fathom model, built 46 pump trip scenarios, and identified peak pressure locations across the entire flow path, all within a single platform. The result was documented confidence that equipment design was sufficient for every transient condition evaluated.

No spreadsheet approximations. No separate tools. No rework.