Assignment – II

Palm oil derivative products are used in various food applications. Palm oil first of all converted
in to Distilled fatty acid, Light distilled fatty acid and glycerol. The detailed process flow
diagram is available along the assignment. The detailed process conditions are also given.
Considering the process condition you are supposed to develop the cooling system for the
given process. First of all you will divide the cooling load in two types of cooling tower

1. Clean water cooling tower

2. Dirty water cooling tower (Contains small amount of fatty oil).

The CTW utilizes for condense the steam in vacuum ejectors is connected with Dirty water
cooling tower system. The steam use in vacuum ejects is available at 4 bar pressure. And the
CTW use in heat exchangers or for indirect heat transfer is connected with clean cooling tower.
All the run down products should be send to storage tank at 40⁰C

1. Determine the cooling loads of respective cooling towers.

2. Set the range and approach for respective cooling towers and give the reason of your
optimize value.
3. Determine the cooling loads of respective plants.
4. Calculate the evaporation losses, mass flowrate of CTW,
5. Calculate the blowdown and make water considering CC = 5 and 0.1% of the flowrate of
CTW as random losses.
6. Optimize the type of fill for each CT and give reason for the selection of fill.
 Main steam Supply header
P-31 P-31 P-32

PSV

P-9 P-19
P-18

CTW out CTW out

P-6 P-7 P-18

Palm Oil P-10 P-11

Triglyceride 98% E6
P-4 P-5
E2 P-24 P-12

P-1 P-33 P-34

E4 CTWP-41inCTW in

P-28
R1 R2 P-8
P-2

P-41
P-3
V3
P-42 V4
E1 P-22 P-23 P-23 P-44 P-44

P-38 E5
P-13

P1
P-21

P-16

P-25
P-13
V2
P-17
P-2 P-26 V1
E3
P-20

P-37

Crude Fatty Acid P-27 P3 P-29

Storage Tank
P2
P4

P-36 Seam condensate header

P-35
P-35
 P-29
P-21

P-27

CTW out Steam

P-36
Steam
CTW in P-34 P-33 P-34

P-30 P-19 P-20 P-22

P-19 P-24 P-24

E-28 E-30
V4 V5 P-25
P-31 P-37
E5 P-23
P-3

P-33 P-38
V1 E2 E4
P-23
P-7 P-12
P-8

P-13
CT

P-5
V2 P-26
P-4 E3 P-27
E1 D1 V3

D2
P7
P-6 P6
P-11 P-43 P-43
P-14

DFA
E6
P-17
DFA

Crude Fatty Acid P-16

P5
P-44

P-1

P-10 LDFA
E7
P-2 P-9

P2 P3 P4
P-42
P-41
P1
Residue
 Equipment List
Displayed Text Process/Stream Process condition Mass flow Heat load
Crude Fatty Acid
Storage Tank Palm oil with 3.4% Moisture 50C 3.5 Mton/hr
E1 Steam and Palm oil exchanger PO outlet temp. 150 3.5 Mton/hr 591640 KJ/hr
E2 Crude Fatty acid and Palm oil Exchanger PO outlet temp. 230C 3.5 Mton/hr 670880 KJ/hr
E3 Crude Fatty acid and Palm oil Exchanger PO outlet temp. 90 C 3.5 Mton/hr 278320 KJ/hr
E4 Water-water Heat exchanger PW outlet temp 220C 2.5 Mton/hr 1149500 KJ/hr
E5 Steam-water Heat exchanger PW outlet temp 110C 2.5 Mton/hr 627000 KJ/hr
V3 + V4 water vapour
E6 CTW - Moisture in CFA and SW flowrate 1250 Kg/hr
P1
P2
P3
P4
Palm Oil
Triglyceride 98%
R1
R2
V1 Tap water for reactor feeding Water temp 50 C
V2 CFA accumulation tank CFA temp 90 C
CFA inlet temp 120 C
V3 CFA Flash and Cooling vessel and Outlet Temp 90 C 3.5 Mton/hr 188730 KJ/hr
SW inlet temp 120 C
V4 SW Flash and Cooling Vessel and Outlet Temp 90 C 2.5 Mton/hr 188100 KJ/hr

Crude Fatty Acid Storage tank CFA temp 70 C

CT Cooling tower for vacuum ejector
Temp 130C and 10 mm Vapour flow =
D1 Light Fatty acid Distillation column Hg 0.24 Mton/hr
Temp 240C and 2 mm Vapour flow =
D2 Fatty acid Main Distillation column Hg 2.8 Mton/hr
E1 Thermosyphon Reboiler LDFA unit
Vapour
condensing
rate = 0.24
E2 LDFA condenser 85C Mton/hr 84000 KJ/hr
E3 Thermosyphon Reboiler LDFA unit
Vapour
condensing
rate = 2.8
E4 DFA condenser 135C Mton/hr 1120000 KJ/hr
E6 DFA trim cooler DFA 135C - 35C 2.8 Mton/hr 587160 KJ/hr
E7 LDFA trim cooler LDFA 85C - 35C 0.24 Mton/hr 22488 KJ/hr

Steam flow rate

Ejector 1 Main Vacuum ejector 0.1 mm Hg = 600 m3/hr

Steam flow rate

Ejector 2 Supporting ejector 0.1 mm Hg = 600 m3/hr
P2
P3
P4
P5
P6
P7
V1 CFA Dryer 90C
V2 LDFA Accumulation tank
V3 DFA Accumulation tank
V4 Barometric Condenser
V5 Barometric Condenser
PW = Process Water CFA = Crude fatty acid SW Sweet water contains glycerine PO = Palm oil