BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY

College of Engineering, Architecture, Fine Arts

Gov. Pablo Borbon Campus II, Alangilan, Batangas City, Philippines 4200
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CHEMICAL AND FOOD ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

ChE 301 – Chemical Engineering Calculations 1
Equipment Applying Energy Balance
ENERGY BALANCE

CTRL NO.: 41 SR CODE: 15-50731 SECTION: ChE-3102 SCORE: __________

BOIL A boiler is a closed vessel in which The main functions of a textile

DRY
dryer is to
water or other fluid is heated. The fluid does not dry the textile fabrics. Drying is defined as a
necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid process where the liquid portion of the solution is
exits the boiler for use in various processes or evaporated from the fabric.
heating applications.

HEAT
AUTOC A strong, heated container used
A heat exchanger is a
for chemical reactions and other processes using
EXCHANGE
device used to transfer heat between a solid object
and a fluid, or between two or more fluids. The
high pressures and temperatures, e.g., steam
fluids may be separated by a solid wall to prevent
sterilization applications.
mixing or they may be in direct contact.

TURB A machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel

or rotor, typically fitted with vanes, is made to revolve by a fast-
moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid.
 CONDEN AIR
An air compressor is a
A device or unit used to
condense a substance from its gaseous to its liquid
COMPRESSO
device that converts power (using an electric
motor, diesel or gasoline engine, etc.) into
state, by cooling it. In so doing, the latent heat is
potential energy stored in pressurized air (i.e.,
given up by the substance and transferred to the
compressed air).
surrounding environment.

DEALKA specifically, anaerobic

BIOREAC a
Most often used as pre-
treatment to a boiler and are usually preceded by a bioreactor is a vessel in which a chemical process
water softener. Alkalinity is a factor that most is carried out which involves organisms or
often dictates the amount of boiler blowdown. biochemically active substances derived from such
organisms.

PRESSURIZED WATER PWRs keep water under pressure so that it

heats, but does not boil. Water from the reactor and the water in the
steam generator that is turned into steam never mix.