ChE 201 Washington State University

Chemical Process Principles and Calculations Voiland School of Chemical Engineering

and Bioengineering
Fall, 2009 Richard L. Zollars

Problem 7.26, Felder and Rousseau

Liquid water is fed to a boiler at 24C and 10 bar and is converted at constant pressure to
saturated steam. Use the steam tables to calculate H

A (kJ /kg) for this process, and then

calculate the heat input required to produce 15,000 m
3
/h of steam at the exiting conditions.
Assume that the kinetic energy of the entering liquid is negligible and that the steam is
discharged through a 15-cm ID pipe.

SOLUTION

From Table B.5 for water at 24C the specific enthalpy is 100.6 kJ /kg and that for saturated
steam is 2776.2 kJ /kg (and the temperature is 179.9C) from Table B.6. Thus the enthalpy
change is

kg
kJ
H 6 . 2675 6 . 100 2 . 2776

= = A

Also from Table B.6 we see that the specific volume of the saturated steam is 0.1943 m
3
/kg. So
the mass flow rate of the steam is

h
kg
kg
m
h
m
m 200 , 77
1943 . 0
15000
3
3
= =

The linear velocity of the steam at the exit is

( )
s
m
h
m
m
h
m
R
h
m
u
out
8 . 235 10 49 . 8
075 . 0
15000 15000
6
2
3
2
3
= = = =
t t


So the energy balance becomes

( )
kW
s
kJ
h
kJ
kg
kJ
h
kg
Q
kg
kJ J
kJ
kg
kg
s
m
kg
kJ
h
kg
Q
kg
kJ s
m
kg
kJ
h
kg
Q
Q H m
u
H m
in
out
out
4 8
2
2
2
10 80 . 5 58000 10 087 . 2 4 . 2703 200 , 77
6 . 100
2
1000
1
1
1
8 . 235
2 . 2776 200 , 77
6 . 100
2
8 . 235
2 . 2776 200 , 77

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