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gue 126 Ovectow in notch gue 27 Acont
With 24 notches, the zate of flow per notch is
1035 ((3600(24) = 0.004060,
01m or 10mm.
EXAMPLE 1.6, PRESSURE DROP IN A STACK
‘To reduce pollution at ground level, $6,000 m*/h hot flue gases are to be
‘exhausted 60 m above the ground at a velocity Vo = 18 m/s, through 2 conical
‘Stack with inner diameter 2.3 m at ground level and diameter 1.3 m at the top
(Figure 1.27), Density of flue ges, Pg i 0.9 kg/m’ and density of ambient air 9,
{3 1.2 Kg/im? . The pressure drop due to friction is assumed to be one velocity head
perlength L, = 50D.
(@) _Caleulate the exit loss in mm water gauge.
(®) _Caleulate the friction loss in the stack in mm water gauge.
(©) Caleulate the total head (static head and velocity head) after the fan. The
pressure crop from the fan to the bottom of the stack is estimated to be 6 mm water
‘auge.
Solution
Foo!
(e) The exit loss is p> = 0.9
= 146 N/m?
64g
469.82 = 15 mm water gauge.
1.3) _304
(2) 226mm
tmerean. ron (2)
‘The stack diameter,
2.3 ~(2.3~ 1.3)1/60,
L=138~60D. 2
‘These values are inserted in equation (1.12),
soen-sita [Soap i956 [tap 134!
134/9.82 = 14 mm water gauge,
©) Totalloss, 15 +14 +6 35 mm water gauge
Natural draft, 60(1.2—0.9)g/g= 18 mm water gauge
‘otal head of the fan 27 mm water gauge.
EXAMPLE 1.7, PRESSURE DROP IN A GRANULAR BED (CATALYST)
Calculate the pressure drop in a 0.5 m thick catalyst bed consisting of cylinders,
{6 mm diameter and 8 mm long. A sample of the eatalyst gives Void fraction
32 and gas velocity zeferred to the total cross section, Vo = 0.8 m/s. The gas
density is assumed to be a constant, p= 0.49 ke/m®, and the gas viscosity,
0.034 cP.
Solution
Calculate the shape factor ®, {equation (1.19)}. A sphere with the same volume
hs the diameter Dp,
Lap? 2,
Z10h F068),
Dp = 0.756 em.
Shape factor,
20.756?
{Gfoe) nase
oar
Artificial Reynolds number sesording to equation (1.20),
_-(0:49%0.80.00756)
8 (0,084)(109)
7
which gives (Figure 1.15) an exponent n = 1.28 and friction factor.
‘These values inserted in equation (1.18) give
py = 2ini089N0.840.5)01 = 0.32)
+ (0:00756\(0.870"?®X0.32")
= 923 fq Nim?
