Ambient air cooling

Materials and Processing. Copolyesters of poly(ethylene terephtha-late) (PET) and para-oxybenzoic acid (FOB) were supplied by the Tennessee Eastman Corporation. Past work Indicates the copolyesters form thermotropic liquid crystalline phases at compositions containing more than 30 mole% POB (26,27,28). The composition of the copolyester studied here contains 60 mole% POB. Quiescent liquid crystalline films were made by compression molding the copolyester at 210, 230, 255, and 285 C, and followed by a quench Into Ice water, ambient air, or cooled In the press with the power off. Film thicknesses ranged between 0.05-0.15 mm. Another sa(q>le of the 40/60 PET/POB copolyester was melted at 270 °C In a Mettler hot stage, manually sheared between glass slides, and then ambient air cooled. 

In many apparently warm climates, such as Australia (Sutherland, 1968) and Israel (Navarro et al., 1969), ambient air cooling may still be appropriate for cooling grain below insects breeding thresholds, but, in other climates, such as the southern states of the USA, sufficient cool air may not be available immediately after harvest, so that the air may have to be artificially reduced in temperature (Maier et al., 1997). 

These depend on the same principles as ambient air cooling, but about ten times the air is required to remove moisture, compared with that required for removing... 

Most refrigeration systems are essentially the same as the heat pump cycle shown in Fig. 6.37. Heat is absorbed at low temperature, servicing the process, and rejected at higher temperature either directly to ambient (cooling water or air cooling) or to heat recovery in the process. Heat transfer takes place essentially over latent heat profiles. Such cycles can be much more complex if more than one refrigeration level is involved. 

In the electrothermic part of the furnace, electrical energy introduced via three carbon electrodes, keeps the bath molten and completes the lead oxide reduction. Fumes generated in the electrothermic section are oxidized in a post-combustion chamber by adding ambient air, before the vapor is cooled, dedusted, and released to the atmosphere. 

After compression and removal of impurities, the air is cooled ia heat exchangers and expanded to low pressure through a turbiae, to recover energy, or through a valve. Liquid air, which forms at about 80 K, is separated via a distillation column. The column as well as the heat exchangers and the associated piping are placed within a cold box, which is packed with iasulation to minimise heat transfer (qv) between streams and to protect the system from the ambient air external to the cold box. 

Release of a pressurized, hquefied gas to the atmosphere will cause the gas to cool and condense water vapor in ambient air, forming a visible vapor cloud. Firefighters and operators who attempt to move such a cloud away from furnaces and the hke with fire hoses and water jet guns are at risk, because of the possibility of a UVCE near them. Plants and governmental agencies who recommend such practices need to reexamine their pohcies. 

For large motors, which use water as the secondary coolant in a closed circuit, the temperature of the cooling air, i.e. of the primary coolant, varies with the temperature of the cooling water inlet temperature and its rate of flow. For the performance of the motor output, this primary coolant, temperature has the same significance as the ambient temperature for an air-cooled motor. The motor output is unaffected by the ambient temperature. For such motors the output graph is shown in Figure 1.13 at different coolant temperatures and altitudes. The rating at 25°C inlet water temperature for water-cooled machines is the same as for air-cooled machines at an ambient temperature of 40°C. 

Air cooled heat exchangers are used to transfer heat from a process fluid to ambient air. The process fluid is contained within heat eonducting tubes. Atmospherie air, whieh serves as the eoolant, is caused to flow perpendicularly across the tubes in order to remove heat. In a typical air cooled heat exchanger, the ambient air is either forced or induced by a fan or fans to flow vertically across a horizontal section of tubes. For condensing applications, the bundle may be sloped or vertical. Similarly, for relatively small air cooled heat exchangers, the air flow may be horizontal across vertical tube bundles. 

Approach temperature differences between the oudet process fluid temperature and the ambient air temperamre are generally in the range of 10 to 15 K. Normally, water cooled heat exchangers can be designed for closer approaches of 3 to 5 °K. Of course, closer approaches for air cooled heat exchangers can be designed, but generally these are not justified on an economic basis. 

As described above, in the air-cooled exchanger a motor and fan assembly forces ambient air over a series of tubes to cool or condense the process fluids carried within. The tubes are typically assembled in a coiled configuration. Air is... 

Airflow near the hood can be influenced by drafts created directly by the supply air jets (spot-cooling jets) or by turbulence of the ambient air caused by the jets, upward/downward convective flows, moving people, and drafts from doors and windows. 

In this example we selected a final outlet temperature of 100°F, This would be sufficiently low if the gas were only going to be compressed and dehydrated. For our case, we must also treat the gas for H2S and COt removal (Chapter 7). If we chose an amine unit, which we will in all likelihood, the heat of the reaction could heat the gas more than 10° to 20 T. making the next step, glycol dehydration, difficult (Chapter 8). In such a case, it may be better to cool the gas initially to a lower temperature so that it is still below 110°F at the glycol dehydrator. Often this is not possible, since cooling water is not available and ambient air conditions are in the 95°F to 1()0°F range. If this is so, it may be necessary to use an aerial cooler to cool the gas before treating, and another one to cool it before dehydration. 

When dark roofs are heated by the sun, they directly raise summertime building cooling demand. For highly absorptive (low-albedo) roofs, the surface/ambient air temperature difference may be 50°C (90°F), while for less absorptive (high-albedo) surfaces with similar insu-lative properties (e.g., white-coated roofs), the difference is only about 10°C (18 F), which means that cool surfaces can effectively reduce cooling-energy use. 

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