Water compressibility calculation

There are two common refrigeration systems, mechanical and thermal compression. In the mechanical system work is done in compressing a gas, the refrigerant. The energy thus added plus the amount of refrigeration required must be removed in a condenser, usually by cooling water. The calculations necessary and some typical values are given in references 20 and 21. 

Air-entraining water-reducing admixtures require special consideration the presence of entrained air leads to a reduction in compressive strength, whilst the water reduction results in a compensatory increase in strength. The effect can be quantified, however, by considering the amount of entrained air in terms of an equivalent volume of water to calculate the (air and water)-cement ratio. This new factor can be used to estimate the expected strength from Fig. 1.37. 

Various techniques were tried, including cutting an actual tree into bits and then compressing them to find the volume of the tree, and putting wood in a barrel of known volume and adding measured amounts of water to calculate the volume of the barrel not occupied by the wood (ibid., p. 328). 

S, N2/H2O (29), CO2/H2O (30) and H2/H2O (21). Above 4500C, the icity coefficients for these species were all close to unity. Fugacity coefficients of radicals and transition states were assumed to ual one. The only correction made therefore was to include the compressibility factor and fugacity coefficient (when appropriate) of supercritical water as calculated from the steam tables (22). At most, this correction amounted to a factor of two and did not change the modeling results significantly. 

Utilities include electricity, steam, process fuel, process water, boiler feedwater, cooDng water, deionized water, compressed air, instrument air, refrigeration, inert gas, and effluent treatment. The unit use is dependent on die process technology, and the cost is site dependent. For each utility, unit use and unit cost should be recorded. The estimated use of utilities for different fertiDzer processes is shown in Table 21.6. Some offsite utilities such as electricity are often priced with a fixed cost component and a variable cost component. The fixed and variable portions need to be calculated separately to provide an average variable cost per unit of production for a given annual production. 

Consider a binary system of water vapor (1) in air (2) initially at room temperature and pressure (such as the air in this room). You desire to compress the gas to 100 bar and then cool it to — 10 °C without any water condensing. Calculate the maximum mole fraction of water that can be in the air. Use the virial equation of state for the vapor phase. At — 10°C, you have data for the second virial coefficients as follows ... 

Gas reservoirs are produced by expansion of the gas contained in the reservoir. The high compressibility of the gas relative to the water in the reservoir (either connate water or underlying aquifer) make the gas expansion the dominant drive mechanism. Relative to oil reservoirs, the material balance calculation for gas reservoirs is rather simple. A major challenge in gas field development is to ensure a long sustainable plateau (typically 10 years) to attain a good sales price for the gas the customer usually requires a reliable supply of gas at an agreed rate over many years. The recovery factor for gas reservoirs depends upon how low the abandonment pressure can be reduced, which is why compression facilities are often provided on surface. Typical recovery factors are In the range 50 to 80 percent. 

The material of interest is dissolved in a volatile solvent, spread on the surface and allowed to evaporate. As the sweep moves across, compressing the surface, the pressure is measured providing t versus the area per molecule, a. Care must be taken to ensure complete evaporation [1] and the film structure may depend on the nature of the spreading solvent [78]. When the trough area is used to calculate a, one must account for the area due to the meniscus [79]. Barnes and Sharp [80] have introduced a remotely operated barrier drive mechanism for cleaning the water surface while maintaining a closed environment. 

The monolayer resulting when amphiphilic molecules are introduced to the water—air interface was traditionally called a two-dimensional gas owing to what were the expected large distances between the molecules. However, it has become quite clear that amphiphiles self-organize at the air—water interface even at relatively low surface pressures (7—10). For example, x-ray diffraction data from a monolayer of heneicosanoic acid spread on a 0.5-mM CaCl2 solution at zero pressure (11) showed that once the barrier starts moving and compresses the molecules, the surface pressure, 7T, increases and the area per molecule, M, decreases. The surface pressure, ie, the force per unit length of the barrier (in N/m) is the difference between CJq, the surface tension of pure water, and O, that of the water covered with a monolayer. Where the total number of molecules and the total area that the monolayer occupies is known, the area per molecules can be calculated and a 7T-M isotherm constmcted. This isotherm (Fig. 2), which describes surface pressure as a function of the area per molecule (3,4), is rich in information on stabiUty of the monolayer at the water—air interface, the reorientation of molecules in the two-dimensional system, phase transitions, and conformational transformations. 

The above is valid for a liquid flow, when the effect of compressibility can be ignored when calculating gas flows with small pressure differences. For instance, in ventilating duct work, air is not compressed, so the density is considered as constant. In HVAC technology a unit of pressure frequently used for convenience is a water column millimeter, 1 mm H.O=10Pa. 

If the gas to be compressed contains water vapor (saturated or only partially saturated), this water content must be determined by (1) test of the mixture or (2) calculation. Then the properties of the gas-water vapor mixture must be determined by the usual gas calculations for weighted aver-... 

Performance capacity curves are based on standard dry air with 60 water as the liquid compressant or seal liquid. The pumps operate on a displacement or volumetric basis therefore, the CFM capacities are about the same for any particular pump for any dry gas mixture. To calculate pounds/hours of air or gas mixture, the appropriate calculation must be made. 

An air-lift pump raises 0.01 m3/s of water from a well 100 m deep through a 100 mm diameter pipe. The level of water is 40 m below the surface. The air flow is 0.1 m3/s of free air compressed to 800 kN/m2. Calculate the efficiency of the pump and the mean velocity of the mixture in the pipe. 

Self-Test 6.6A Suppose that 2.00 mol C02 at 2.00 atm and 300. K is compressed isothermally and reversibly to half its original volume before being used to produce soda water. Calculate w, q, and AU by treating the C02 as an ideal gas. 

It is also interesting to note that only a fraction of PS II membrane protein forms a stable monolayer structure and the rest of them fall into the water subphase. This can be seen directly by the naked eye during the compression. Furthermore, if we use the total amount of PS II membrane protein to calculate the average particle size from the n-A curve, we obtain an area of about 200 nm. This value is very small when compared with that of the PS II core complex (320 nm, as discussed in the subsequent section), which is a smaller subunit of the PS II membranes. A PS II membrane fragment contains PS II core complex and several LHC II proteins, and is much larger in size than a PS II core complex... 

We studied the surface pressure area isotherms of PS II core complex at different concentrations of NaCl in the subphase (Fig. 2). Addition of NaCl solution greatly enhanced the stability of monolayer of PS II core complex particles at the air-water interface. The n-A curves at subphases of 100 mM and 200 mM NaCl clearly demonstrated that PS II core complexes can be compressed to a relatively high surface pressure (40mN/m), before the monolayer collapses under our experimental conditions. Moreover, the average particle size calculated from tt-A curves using the total amount of protein complex is about 320 nm. This observation agrees well with the particle size directly observed using atomic force microscopy [8], and indicates that nearly all the protein complexes stay at the water surface and form a well-structured monolayer. 

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