Generalized pressure drop correlation GPDC

Figures 9-21B and -21C are the earliest generalized pressure drop correlations (GPDC) proposed and have been used for many industrial plant design. Progressively, Figures 9-21E-H are more recent correlations. These charts will be discussed in a later section.

Figure 9-21E. Latest version, generalized pressure drop correlation (GPDC). Used by permission of Norton Chemical Process Products Coro (rev. 1985).

This chapter presents an atlas of charts for interpolating flood, pressure drop, and MOC. For random and grid packings (Charts 10.1002 to 10.3517 and 10.8005 to 10.8205), the charts are plots of the Eckert generalized pressure drop correlation (GPDC) curves, with experimental data superimposed on them. These plots permit data interpolation... 

Estimating flood and pressure drop using the GPDC interpolation charts involves data interpolation and extrapolation within the framework of the generalized pressure drop correlation (GPDC) chart (Fig. 8.196 or c), This technique is expected to yield reliable estimates when appropriate data are available in the vicinity of the operating point. The reliability of the estimates will diminish with the extent to which extrapolation is required. Whenever extensive extrapolation is required, the estimates are unreliable, and the calculation is best abandoned. 

Schmidt minimum wetting, 513, 514 Schmidt humber, 528. 531 Sherwood-Eckert generalized pressure drop correlation (GPDC), 479-481. 486. 493, 504-506 Sherwood number, 529, 531 Shiras et al. distributed component. 110... 

Calculate the tower diameter. Various methods are available for the design and rating of packed towers. The method shown here is an extension of the CVCL model, which is more fundamentally sound than the generalized pressure drop correlation (GPDC). The basic flooding... 

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