ChE 511 Equipment Design

Assignment No 1
Answer the following on no more than 3 pages of 8 ½ x 11 paper (fontsize 12) and upload your answers in the course
website. Deadline for submission is August 18, 2019.
Go over your notes in the following courses: Transport Phenomena, Heat and Mass Transfer, Separation Processes,
Momentum Transfer, Particulate Technology and Chemical Kinetics. Name a specific type of equipment related with the
method of separation listed below and identify the key equipment design variables solved for in theoretical calculations.
Write/Name the design equation to compute for these variables. Post a picture to illustrate your equipment.
a) Double Pipe Heat Exchanger
b) Shell and Tube Heat Exchanger
c) Evaporator
d) Crystallizer
e) Gas Absorber
f) Humidifier/Dehumidier/Cooling Tower
g) Drier
h) Filter
i) Distillation Column
j) Extraction/Leaching
k) CSTR
l) Plug Flow Reactor
m) Screens
n) Size Reduction Equipment
o) Settling Tank/ Thickener/ Clarifier
p) Centrifuge
q) Fluidization
Double Pipe Heat 𝑄 = 𝑚𝐶𝑃𝑐/ℎ ∆𝑇 = 𝑈𝐴∆𝑇𝐿𝑀 𝐹𝑡 Where:
Exchanger
m= Mass
∆𝑇𝐿𝑀
(𝑡1 − 𝑇2 ) − (𝑡2 − 𝑇1 ) CpH/C = Specific Heat of Hot
= and Cold Stream
(𝑡 − 𝑇2 )
ln 1
(𝑡2 − 𝑇1 ) tHot In/Out = Inlet and
outlet temperature of Hot
Stream
tCold In/Out = Inlet and
outlet temperature of Cold
Stream
Shell and Tube Heat ∆𝑇1 − ∆𝑇2 W = mass rate of heating
Exchanger ∆𝑇𝑙𝑚 =
∆𝑇1 medium
ln
∆𝑇2
Cp = heat capacity
q = UA∆TlmFT
U = Heat Transfer
𝑇1−𝑇2 𝑡2−𝑡1
R= S= Coefficient
𝑡2−𝑡1 𝑇1−𝑡1

WCp∆𝑇 = WCp∆T h = U-value

1 D = diameter
Ui = 1 𝑥𝐷𝑖 𝐷𝑖
+ +
ℎ𝑖 𝐾𝐷𝑙𝑚 ℎ𝑜𝐷𝑜

Evaporator

Crystallizer

Gas Absorber

Humidifier/ Dehumidifier/
Cooling Tower

Drier

Filter

Distillation Column

Extraction/ Leaching

CSTR

Plug Flow Reactor

Screens

Size Reduction Equipment

Settling Tank/ Thickener/

Clarifier

Centrifuge
Fluidization