Romtec Utilities worked with Brown & Morrison on this project for a new blowdown water pump station for the old Dan River Steam Station in North Carolina. Charlotte, North Carolina is a major city that is home to a lot of commercial activity, in the southwest part of the state located on the South Carolina border.

Eden, North Carolina is in Rockingham County where the Smith River and Dan River flow through the city. Eden has a population of about 15,000 people where U.S. Route 311 runs through town connecting the area with Virginia.

The city is home to the Charlotte Hornets of the NBA and the Carolina Panthers of the NFL.

Various other attractions include the Levine Museum of the New South, Discovery Place Science, NASCAR Hall of Fame, Carowinds, U.S. National Whitewater Center, Fury 325, Charlotte Motor Speedway, and the Mint Museum.

Brown & Morrison, a Xylem pump rep, contacted Romtec Utilities about this project for a new blowdown pump station at the old Dan River Steam Station.

Brown & Morrison was originally contacted by HDR for pump pricing and connected them to Romtec Utilities for the design. HDR, Inc. provided the preliminary design criteria for this blowdown system, and Romtec Utilities provided a satisfactory design and quote for its project.

Brown & Morrison is a leading supplier of process equipment solutions to many customers in the municipal and industrial markets, based out of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Working together with the owner, Romtec Utilities and HDR developed an approved design for this power-generating establishment. We provided full start-up and training services for this station to the power company staff in North Carolina.

HDR is an engineering and design firm based out of Omaha, Nebraska.

A large power company replaced the former facility with a new gas fired power plant and needed a new pump station to handle medium flows of blow down water from the heat recovery steam generator.

The Flygt pumps specified for this project were stainless steel and suitable for corrosive and very hot water conditions that are typical with blow down systems. The design also called for all the discharge piping to be designed and supplied with stainless steel. Liquid-level sensing was supplied with NOLTA floats designed for corrosive and hot water environments. The controller was supplied as an Allen Bradley PLC configured for a duplex pumping system.

For this Combined Cycle Blow Down Pumping at this power plant located in Eden, North Carolina this pump design featured 8′ diameter wet well, 4″ discharge piping, Flygt DP8053MT pumps, and a 4″ 577 valve vault.

It can pump up to 300 gallons per minute with a total dynamic head of 20’.

Romtec Utilities engineers pumping systems capable of handling the extremely hot water produced by Heat Recovery Steam Generators. Our designs specify and integrate heat resistant components that stand up to the water conditions for this application.

Not every HRSG is the same, and the necessary pumping systems for these water conveyance projects can also change from plant to plant. Whether it’s handling water from other inlet lines or pumping to force mains for reuse circulation or treatment, we will meet your exact project needs.

Contact us today if you need to get started on a blowdown water pump station.