A reactor cooling system at LyondellBasell's Mumbai facility had a reliability problem nobody could fully explain. The original hydraulic model hadn't accounted for solids deposition, and the system was paying for it in downtime and repeated pipe cleaning.
Engineer Rajitha Papagari rebuilt the analysis in Datacor Fathom using the Settling Slurry (SSL) module. What happened next made this model a Platinum Pipe Award winner.
Download the case study to see the model output, the deposition velocity warnings, and the piping modifications that made the difference.