Design a shell and tube exchanger to heat 50,000 kg/h of liquid ethanol from 20C to 80C.

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Design a shell and tube exchanger to heat 50,000 kg/h of liquid ethanol from 20°C to 80°C. Steam at 1.5 bar is available for heating. Assign the ethanol to the tube side. The total pressure drop must not exceed 0.7 bar for the alcohol stream. Plant practice requires the use of carbon steel tubes, 25 mm inside diameter, 29 mm outside diameter, 4 m long.

Set out your design on a data sheet and make a rough sketch of the heat exchanger. The physical properties of ethanol can be readily found in the literature.

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Chemical Engineering Design

ISBN: 9780128211793

3rd Edition

Authors: Gavin Towler, Ray Sinnott

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