Temperature saturation

Saturation temperatures of sodium chloride dihydrate at these temperatures NaCl 2H2O separates leaving the brine of the eutectic composition (E). 

Saturation Temperature. The temperature at which the water vapor in moist air is in equiUbrium with Hquid water. 

Operation of a reactor in steady state or under transient conditions is governed by the mode of heat transfer, which varies with the coolant type and behavior within fuel assembHes (30). QuaHtative understanding of the different regimes using water cooling can be gained by examining heat flux, q, as a function of the difference in temperature between a heated surface and the saturation temperature of water (Eig. 1). 

Fig. 1. Variation of heat flux, with temperature difference between heated wall, and saturation temperature of water, in regions where A...

Fig. 2. Properties of steam, where ST = saturation temperature and numbers are in °C. Point A corresponds to 22.1 MPa, and lines B, C, and D to 8.27,...

Determination of the Gas-Phase Temperature. The development given above is in terms of interface conditions, bulk Hquid temperature, and bulk gas enthalpy. Often the temperature of the vapor phase is important to the designer, either as one of the variables specified or as an important indicator of fogging conditions in the column. Such a condition would occur if the gas temperature equaled the saturation temperature, that is, the interface temperature. When fogging does occur, the column can no longer be expected to operate according to the relations presented herein but is basically out of control. 

Feedwater The feedwater for a steam cycle must be purified. The degree of purity depends on the pressure of the boiler. Higher pressure boilers require higher feedwater purity. There is some trade-off between feedwater purity and boiler blowdown rate. However, increasing blowdown rate to compensate for lower feedwater purity is expensive, because blowdown water has been heated to the saturation temperature. Typical feedwater specifications for utihty boilers are given in Table 4. To some extent turbine steam purity requirements determine the feedwater purity requirements. The boiler-water siUca required to maintain adequate steam purity for higher pressure steam turbines is considerably less than the boiler could tolerate if deposition in the boiler were the only issue. 

The saturation temperature of a vapor rises when it is mechanically compressed and its latent heat is available at a higher temperature. AppHcation of this heat to an aqueous stream evaporates part of the water, producing a distillate of pure water. AppHcation of vapor compression has grown significantly since 1960. 

A humidification subsystem controls the temperature, flow rate, and relative humidity of the sweep stream. Air and water can be fed to a Hquid-gas packed contactor to produce the desired moisture level ia the vapor stream. The saturation temperature controls the water loading of the air which can be heated to give exactly the desired relative humidity. 

The wet bulb or saturation temperature curve indicates the maximum weight of vapor that can be carried by a unit weight of dry gas. For any temperature on the abscissa, saturation humidity is found by reading up to the saturation temperature curve, then across to the ordinate, kg/kg dry air. At saturation, the partial pressure of vapor in the gas is the vapor pressure of the hquid at the specific temperature ... 

In Figure 2 the lines, volume, m /kg dry air, indicate humid volume, which includes the volume of 1.0 kg of dry gas plus the volume of vapor it carries. Enthalpy at saturation data are accurate only at the saturation temperature and humidity however, for air—water vapor mixtures, the diagonal wet bulb temperature lines are approximately the same as constant-enthalpy adiabatic cooling lines. The latter are based on the relationship ... 

The 1993 ASHRAE Handbook—Fundamentals (SI ed.) gives material for integral degrees Celsius witb temperatures on the ITS 90 scale for saturation temperatures from —77.66 to 132.22 C. The same diagram reproduced here appears in that source. 

Condensation Mechanisms Condensation occurs when a saturated vapor comes in contact with a surface whose temperature is below the saturation temperature. Normally a film of condensate is formed on the surface, and the thickness of this film, per unit of breadth, increases with increase in extent of the surface. This is called film-type condensation. 

If the vapor is superheated at the inlet, the vapor may first be desuperheated by sensible heat transfer from the vapor. This occurs if the surface temperature is above the saturation temperature, and a single-phase heat-transfer correlation is used. If the surface is below the saturation temperature, condensation will occur directly from the superheated vapor, and the effective coefficient is determined from the appropriate condensation correlation, using the saturation temperature in the LMTD. To determine whether or not condensation will occur directly from the superheated vapor, calculate the surface temperature by assuming single-phase heat transfer. 

Superheater Heats a vapor above the saturation temperature. 

By far the largest load on the vacuum pump is water vapor carried with the noncondensable gases. Standara power-plant practice assumes that the mixture leaving a surface condenser will have been cooled 4.2°C (7.5°F) below the saturation temperature of the vapor. This usually corresponds to about 2.5 kg of water vapor/kg of air. One advantage of the countercurrent barometric condenser is that it can cool the gases almost to the temperature of the incoming water and thus reduce the amount of water vapor carried with the air. 

Adiabatic-Saturation Temperature, or Constant-Entlialpy Lines.. . . 12-3... 

Relation between Wet-Bulb and Adiabatic-Saturation Temperatures.. 12-4... 

Dew point, or saturation temperature, is the temperature at which a given mixture of water vapor and air is saturated, for example, the temperature at which water exerts a vapor pressure equal to the partial pressure of water vapor in the given mixture. 

Adiabatic-Saturation Temperature, or Constant-Enthalpy Lines If a stream of air is intimately mixed with a quantity of water at a temperature t, in an adiabatic system, the temperature of the air will drop and its humidity will increase. If t, is such that the air leaving the system is in equihbrium with the water, t, will be the adiabatic-saturation temperature, and the line relating the temperature and humidity of the air is the adiabatic-saturation line. The equation for the adiabatic-saturation line is... 

RELATION BETWEEN WET-BULB AND ADIABATIC-SATURATION TEMPERATURES... 

Experimentally it has been shown that for air-water systems the value of Tj /Zc c, the psychrometric ratio, is approximately equal to 1. Under these conditions the wet-bulb temperatures and adiabatic-saturation temperatures are substantially equal and can be used interchangeably. The difference between adiabatic-saturation temperature and wet-bulb temperature increases with increasing humidity, but this effect is unimportant for most engineering calculations. An empirical formula for wet-bulb temperature determination of moist air at atmospheric pressure is presented by Liley [Jnt. J. of Mechanical Engineering Education, vol. 21, No. 2 (1993)]. 

For systems other than air-water vapor, the value of h /k c, may differ appreciably from unity, and the wet-bulb and adiabatic-saturation temperatures are no longer equal. For these systems the psychrometric ratio may be obtained by determining h /k from heat- and mass-transfer an ogies such as the Chilton-Colburn analogy [Ind. Eng. Chem., 26, 1183 (1934)]. For low humidities this analogy gives... 

Example 1 Compare Wet-Bulb and Adiabatic-Saturation Temperatures For tne air-water system at atmospheric pressure, the measured values of dry-bulh and wet-hulh temperatures are 85 and 72 F respectively. Determine the absolute humidity and compare the wet-bulb temperature and adiabatic-saturation temperature. Assume that h /k is given by Eq. (12-4). 

Values of andt, are given by the saturation curve of the psychrometric chart, such as Fig. 12-2. By trial and error, = 72.1 F, or the adiabatic-saturation temperature is 0.1 F higher than the wet-bulb temperature. 

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