Question: need help understanding how Length and Diameter were calculated. please show all steps. a. V-102 High-Pressure Phase Separator From Table 11.6, the following heuristics are

need help understanding how Length and Diameter were calculated. please show all steps. need help understanding how Length and Diameter were calculated. please show all

a. V-102 High-Pressure Phase Separator From Table 11.6, the following heuristics are used: Rule 3 Vertical vessel Rule 4L/D between 2.5 and 5 with optimum at 3.0 Rule 5 Liquid holdup time is 5min based on 1/2 volume of vessel Rule 9 Gas velocity u is given by u=k0l1m/s where k=0.0305 for vessels without mesh entrainers Rule 12 Good performance obtained at 30%100% of u from Rule 9 ; typical value is 75% From Table 1.5, Vapor flow = Stream 8=9200kg/h,P=23.9bar,T=38C Liquid flow = Streams 17+18=11,570kg/h,P=2.8 bar, T=38C v=8kg/m3 and l=850kg/m3 (estimated from Table 1.7) From Rule 9,u=0.0305[850/81]0.5=0.313m/s Use uact=(0.75)(0.313)=0.23m/s Now mass flowrate of vapor =uvD2/4=9200/3600=2.56kg/s Solving for D,D=1.33m From Rule 5, the volume of liquid =0.5LD2/4=0.726Lm3 5 min of liquid flow =(5)(60)(11,570)/850/3600=1.13m3 Equating the two results above, L=1.56m From Rule 4,L/D should be in the range 2.5 to 5 . For this case L/D=1.56/1.33=1.17 Because this is out of range, change to L=2.5D=3.3m. Heuristics from Table 11.6 suggest that V-102 should be a vertical vessel with D=1.33m,L=3.3m From Table 1.7, the actual V102 is a vertical vessel with D=1.1m,L=3.5m It should be concluded that the design of V-102 given in Chapter 1 is consistent with the heuristics given in Table 11.6. The small differences in L and D are to be expected in a comparison such as this one

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