TECSAR is an independent, employee owned, consulting engineering company, established in 1980. Since that time, the company continues to grow in range and depth to provide professional services to Industrial clientele throughout Ontario, Ohio, Michigan, Quebec and Alberta.
Initially concentrating on the petrochemical and refinery industries, the company’s expertise now covers a wide range of associated process refining and manufacturing industries. Brewing, Distillation, Bio Diesels, Ethanol, Alcohol, Power Generation, Agri Foods, Ammonia Plants etc. are among the client portfolio served.
A client was experiencing water hammer in a process water cooling exchanger due to flashed steam collapsing. The result was noise, vibration, and damage/failure of the exchanger.
This project required the relocation of a flow control valve to the exchanger outlet to maximise pressure until the process water was cooled, thereby preventing the hammer.
The relocation of this control valve would change the flow distribution of the water in the network which needed to be corrected with the installation of additional new and modified control valves. This effort was complicated by the fact that the client needed to make these changes online and therefore our design options were confined to the few tie-in locations which were not in the ideal location for the flow balance.
Previously, this analysis would have been handled via a combination of manual calculation and spreadsheets. Evaluating the multiple options would have been very time consuming. Our previous software would not have had the ability to converge under many of the scenarios provided.
The system was commissioned and is operating exactly as per
the FluidFlow predictions.
FluidFlow makes it easy to evaluate different flow scenarios, helping us identify potential problems or bottlenecks for any forseeable flow case.
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