Case Study: Pilot Chemical Company models desuperheaters more accurately with Datacor AFT Arrow

Pilot Chemical Company lowers steam temperature from 1000°F to 496°F with Datacor

Pilot Chemical Company needed to model a desuperheater, a device that lowers the temperature of superheated steam for industrial processes, within their compressible flow system. The challenge was that their software, Datacor's AFT Arrow, is a single-phase program and cannot natively model the liquid water injection used in desuperheaters.

Datacor provided a solution using a built-in feature of the AFT Arrow software. By utilizing the Flow Source or Sink option within a branch junction, engineers could input the mass flow rate and enthalpy of the injection water. This allowed Datacor's software to perform the necessary mass and enthalpy balances, accurately modeling the desuperheater's effect and resulting in a verified temperature drop from about 1000 °F to 496 °F and an increase in mass flow.

Pilot Chemical Company