Regeneration Design

Regeneration Design
•Interval A (QA) is virtually all sensible heat.
•It represents the time required to heat the bed, steel and
adsorbed water from T1 to T2.
•At T2 water start s to boil off the desiccant.
•For Commercial desiccant T1 = 110 oC (230 oF) and T2 = 127 oC
(260 oF)
•Interval B (QB) is where the most of water is driven from the
bed.
•Heat is needed to not only vaporize the water but also to break
the attractive forces which bind the water to the surface of the
adsorbent.
•This is often called the heat of wetting.
•The sum of the latent heat and the heat of wetting is the heat
of desorption.
•The value is approximately 4200 kJ/kg (1800 Btu/lbm) for
sieves, and 3260 kJ/kg (1400 Btu/lbm) for alumina and gels.
•The temperature profile for interval B is from T2 to T3.
•Interval C (QC) represents the time required to remove heavy
contaminants and residual water.
•The temperature profile for interval C is from T3 to T4.
Regeneration Design
„ The regeneration gas flowrate is
established by heat balance.
„ The regeneration gas rate must must
be adequate to deliver required heat
input in the time available.
„ It must also be sufficient to deliver the
cooling in the time available
Regeneration Design
„ The heat balance is summarized below.
„ QA = mCp ∆TA θA (19.10a)
„ QB = mCp ∆TB θB (19.10b)
„ QC = mCp ∆TC θC (19.10c)
„ QD = mCp ∆TD θD (19.10d)
„ θA+ θB + θC + θD < time available for
regeneration (19.11)
Regeneration Design
„ Q = Heat load in a time interval
„ m = Mass flow of regeneration gas
„ Cp = Heat capacity of regeneration gas
„ ∆TD=Effective temperature difference
for a time interval
„ θ = length of time interval
Regeneration Design
„ For a two tower system, the time
available for regeneration is equal to
the adsorption time.
„ For the three tower system, the time
available is one-half the adsorption
time.
Regeneration Design
„ Eq. 19.10 and 19.11 can only be solved by
trial and error and are not suitable for manual
calculation.
„ As alternative is to calculate the total heating
load QH (QH = QA + QB + QC) and cooling
load QD.
„ It need the overall temperature difference
(∆T) for the heating and cooling cycle.
„ The temperature difference at any time is
represented by the difference between curve
1 and curve 2 in Fig. 19.9.
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Regeneration Design
„ Eq. 19.10 and 19.11 can only be solved by
trial and error and are not suitable for manual
calculation.
„ As alternative is to calculate the total heating
load QH (QH = QA + QB + QC) and cooling
load QD.
„ It need the overall temperature difference
(∆T) for the heating and cooling cycle.
„ The temperature difference at any time is
represented by the difference between curve
1 and curve 2 in Fig. 19.9.