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Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient of Reactor

The document discusses calculating heat transfer coefficients for an agitated vessel with a jacketed coil. It provides data on the vessel, jacket, fluids, and agitator and calculates the overall heat transfer coefficient and power requirements based on established equations.

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Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient of Reactor

The document discusses calculating heat transfer coefficients for an agitated vessel with a jacketed coil. It provides data on the vessel, jacket, fluids, and agitator and calculates the overall heat transfer coefficient and power requirements based on established equations.

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Revision No
1
Issued to download section 27.05.12

chemjunction.com
Calculation of heat transfer coefficients in agitated vessels:
Cooling with water:

Data:
Vessel data:
Material of construction:
Inner diameter of the vessel, Dv :
Wall thickness of vessel,t :
Thermal conductivity of SS316 =

SS316
2450
2.45
10
0.01
9.4
13.9872

mm
m
mm
m
Btu/ft.h.F
Kcal/h m K

[STD. GCL 15.7 KL Reactor]

Dirt resistance :Inside vessel, Rdi :

0.0006 h ft2 F/Btu


0.000123 h m2 K/Kcal

Jacket side [water], Rdj :

0.0013 h ft2 F/Btu


0.000266 h m2 K/Kcal

Jacket data:
Type:
Coil Diameter, Dc :
Inner pipe diameter, di :
Equi. Diameter, De= di/2 :

Limpet (Half-pipe coil type)


2650
2.65
82
0.082

mm
m
mm
m

0.128857 m

Medium:
Temparature:

Water
35 C

Flow rate:

18 m3/Hr

Flow area:
Velocity, v:
Density, :
Viscosity, :
Thermal conductivity, k :

Specific heat, C :

Vessel fluid data:


Name of the fluid :
Temparature:
Density, :
Viscosity, :

0.002642 m2
1.89 m/s
1 g/cm3
1000
1.000
0.001
0.363
0.540
0.00015
1

Kg/m3
cp
Pa.s
Btu/ft.h.F
Kcal/h m K
Kcal/s m K
Kcal/Kg K

MCB
75 C

1.08 g/cm3

1080 Kg/m3
0.445 cp
0.000445 Pa.s

Temp C
10

0.0476
0.0709
2.0E-005
0.35

Thermal conductivity, k :

Specific heat, C :
Agitator data:
Type :
Sweep
Diameter, Da :
Speed, N
Tip speed :

Btu/ft.h.F
Kcal/h m K
Kcal/s m K
Kcal/Kg K

[Perry]

75

Pitch-blade turbine
40 %
980 mm
0.98 m
70 rpm
1.17 rps
3.59 m/s

Heat transfer coefficients:


Vessel side heat transfer coefficient:
For Agitated vessels without internal coils:
Nu = 0.62 Re(2/3) Pr(1/3) (/ w)0.14
Ref: Chopey, pg.7-28)
Nu = h Dv / k
Re = D N /
2
a

24071
2719404

Pr = C / k

Heat transfer co-efficient inside the reactor =

7.9

696 Kcal/h m2 K

Heat transfer coefficient inside limpets (Half-pipe coil jacket):


For half-pipe coil jacket:
Nu = 0.027Re0.8 Pr0.33 (/ w)0.14(1+3.5De/Dc)
(Ref:Chem.engg.,90,vol.106,1,1999)
Nu = h De / k

1206

Re = Dev /

243902

Pr = C / k

6.7

Heat transfer co-efficient, hj =

5054.117 Kcal/h m2 K

Wall Resistance, Rw : l/k

0.000715 h m2 K/Kcal
1398.72 Kcal/h m2 K

Heat transfer co-efficient inside the reactor(hi) :


Jacket side heat transfer co-efficient (hj) :
Wall resistance (Rw) :
Total dirt factor (Rd) :
(Overall heat transfer coefficient)-1 :
Overall heat transfer coefficient (Ud) :

696
5054
0.00071494
0.00038924

Kcal/h m2 K
Kcal/(Hr*m*C)
(Hr*m*K)/ Kcal
(Hr*m*K)/ Kcal
0.00273855 (Hr*m*K)/ Kcal
365 Kcal/(Hr*m*C)

Power Requirement:
Agitator details
Pitch-blade turbine(45)
Anchor

FHP :
BHP :

5581 W
7.48 HP
8.80 HP

Np

No.
1.5
0.6

Total
2
1

3
0.6
3.6

GCL 15.7 KL Reactor]

-1.707012
471.8691

Temp C

cp
75 0.444988619

cp
C Kcal/Kg K k Btu/ft.h.F
0.911
0.298
0.083

0.445

0.35 0.047616821

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