Condensation specific enthalpy

II2 = specific enthalpy at the evaporator outlet (saturated vapor enthalpy at the evaporator pressure (J kg-1, kJkg ) H4 = specific enthalpy at the condenser... 

Table 3 Specific enthalpies for species before and after the condenser...

The two fluids flow through the heat exchanger without undergoing a phase change, i.e. they do not boil or condense. The small change in specific enthalpy with pressure is neglected. Therefore only the temperature dependence is important, and with... 

It follows from this that, under the assumptions made, the specific enthalpy hi, of the flowing condensate is independent of the film thickness. The equation further shows that the enthalpy of vaporization Ahv in the equations for Nusselt s film condensation theory has to be replaced by the enthalpy difference Ah. If we additionally consider that the temperature profile in the condensate film is slightly curved, then according to Rohsenow [4.10] in place of (4.27), we obtain for Ah the more exact value... 

Techniques which are based on the supersonic expansion of a non condensable buffer gas do not suffer from this problem. They have been widely used in experimental science, for example in the first attempt to liquefy gases or, much more recently, as a source of cold molecules for spectroscopy (see the chapter by Davis et al.) or of molecular beams for collision dynamics studies. Cooling arises from conservation of energy which implies, that for a gas flow under adiabatic conditions, the sum of specific enthalpy and kinetic energy remains constant during the expansion. For a perfect gas with a constant specific heat capacity Cp and with a well defined temperature, the energy conversion is driven by the following equation ... 

If air infiltration is avoided (or minimized to an acceptable level), it is possible to recover all of the latent heat supplied in the SSD from the exhaust by condensing the exhaust stream or by mechanical- or thermocompression to elevate its specific enthalpy for reuse in the dryer. As SSD will necessarily produce steam equal in amount to the water evaporated in the dryer, it is necessary to have a useful application for this excess steam in the process plant. If this steam is used elsewhere, the latent heat recovered is not charged to the SSD, leading to a net energy consumption figure of... 

The mean specific molar heat capacity of the dry gas mix Cpm.ilT l, can be easily calculated or extracted as a stream property from a process simulator, for example, Aspen Plus [2]. The moisture exergy ei,H,tni,H20 must include the complete condensation of any water vapor. Although the specific enthalpy ho = 1890.3 kJ/ kmol and entropy So = 6.616 kJ/(lcmol K) of the reference water are fixed, the enthalpy hi in kj/kmol and entropy s, in kJ/(kmol-K) are computed applying the IAPWS-IF97 formulation for the gas temperature and partial H2O pressure. 

Material properties Density q, specific heat capacity Cp corresponding to the specific enthalpy h of the material and latent energies like melting Ah, condensation Aha and evaporation Ahy. 

Example 4 Calculation of the BP Method Use the BP method with the SRK eqiiation-of-state for K values and enthalpy departures to compute stage temperatures, interstage vapor and hqiiid flow rates and compositions, and rehoiler and condenser duties for the light-hydrocarhon distdlation-coliimn specifications shown in Fig. 13-51 with feed at 260 psia. The specifications are selected to obtain three products, a vapor distillate rich in Cri and C3, a vapor side-stream rich in n-C4, and a bottoms rich in n-C and n-Cg. 

Many workers have offered the opinion that the isokinetic relationship is confined to reactions in condensed phase (6, 122) or, more specially, may be attributed to solvation effects (13, 21, 37, 43, 56, 112, 116, 124, 126-130) which affect both enthalpy and entropy in the same direction. The most developed theories are based on a model of the half-specific quasi-crystalline solvation (129, 130), or of the nonideal conformal solutions (126). Other explanations have been given in terms of vibrational frequencies involving solute and solvent (13, 124), temperature dependence of solvent fluidity in the quasi-crystalline model (40), or changes of enthalpy and entropy to produce a hole in the solvent (87). 

The vast majority of the reactions carried out in industrial scale batch reactors involve reactants in condensed phases. Since the specific volumes of both liquids and solids are very small, the difference between internal energy and enthalpy for these materials is usually negligible. Thus one often sees the statement that for batch reactions taking place at constant volume ... 

The term specific heat refers to the sensible-heat content of either vapor or liquid. The specific heat is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature on one pound of the vapor or liquid by 1°F. The term latent heat refers to the heat of vaporization, or the heat of condensation, needed to vaporize or condense one pound of liquid or vapor at constant temperature. Note that the heat of condensation is equal to the heat of vaporization. Each is referred to as the latent heat. The sum of the sensible heat, plus the latent heat, is called the total heat content, or enthalpy. 

Tq may be defined as the temperature at which the gaseous EM would have an enthalpy equal to the enthalpy of the liquid EM at T0 if the gas did not condense in cooling and its specific heat c" remained constant. The... 

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