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FURNACE DESIGN
USMAN ABBAS ( 2012-CH-346)
Furnace
TYPES OF FURNACES
Bell furnace
Forging furnace
Industrial Furnace
Laboratory Furnace
Industrial Driers
DESIGNING METHODS
Comparison of Designing
Methods
Method of Wilson,
Lobo and Hottel
Wohlen burg
simplified method
7
Method of Lobo and
Evans
Theoretical method.
The deviation in
results was 16 percent.
1-
Assume
1
0
1
1
13- Cold
1
2
14- Calculation of
15-Mean beam length.
16- Total exposed area, At
17-Effective refracting surface
18- Overall exchange factor, f
19- Obtain the new value of then go back to step (3) to obtain the
new value of gas temperature, TG
process heat transfer by Donald Q kern ch-19 furnace
calculations
Factors
Valus
1-
271030.973 MJ
2.57 * 107 Btu/hr
2-
0.3455
3-
1112 0F
4-
5 inch
5-
38.5 ft
6-
12000
1
3
1
4
No.
789-
Factors
ctc
D.Q kern
Efficiency
Fuel value
Valus
8.5 inch
70%
661.10 KJ/mol
1
5
Outlet
INLET
Component Composition
H2
0.0429
N2
0.185
Kmoles/hr
H2
N2
90.12
CO
CO2
388.64
0
0.0752
157.97
Ar
0.002
0.42
CH4
0.6948
1459.61
C2H6
total
0.0019
1
3.99
2100.75
H2O i.e
steam added
component composition
4063.9
0.605107
0.076178
0.10497
3087.08
388.64
535.52
Ar
0.099294
0.002
506.57
0.42
CH4
0.114368
583.47
C2H6
total
H2O i.e
steam out
5101.71
CO
CO2
inlet
(Furnace)
Mass(kg)
IN
114724.55
Out
114724.64
outlet
kmloes/
hr
2831.2
1
6
DESIGNING
CALCULATIONS
Radiant
1
7
As = 2 * average flux
= 2 * 12,000 Btu/hr-ft2 = 24,000 Btu/hr-ft2
Where = shows the actual heat transfer between hot and cold surface.
Acp = cold plane surface
Overall
f= 0.6
1
8
Qf =
1
9
Amount
of fuel required :-
unitrove.com/engineering/tools/gas/natural gas-calorific
value
2
0
Required
amount of air:-
amount of air:-
Inlet
2
1
Heat
usually
Qwall = 2% Qf
=0.02 (3.67 * 107 Btu /hr)
= 7.34 * 105 Btu/hr
2
2
Heat
2
3
Number
= 42.1 almost 42
Cold
2
4
Calculation
of alpha () :-
2
5
= 1
Refractory
surfaces :-
Effective
2
6
now calculate,
= = 1.73
Mean
So L = 2/3 *( volume)
0.333
0.333
2
7
Gas emissivity ( G ):G of the natural gas fuel having our desired composition
G = 0.3
Overall exchange factor ( f):By using G and we can find f.
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f= 0.55
Now find again
=
2
8
= 40479.17 Btu/hr-
Furnace
efficiency:-
*100
= *100
= 69.48 %
2
9
Specification sheet
Identification
Item
Furnace
Item no.
H-1
Type
Vertical
Function
Heat duty
Refractory material
Refractory brick
Number of tubes
42
15ft
1750 0F
Tube dia
5 inch
Efficiency
69.48 %
Inlet temperature
1859 0F
Outlet temperature
14860F