Example: 1000 kg/hr of air is to be cooled from 45 deg. C to 10 Deg.

C in
the heat exchanger with chilled water for some process requirement then
what will be chiller capacity required. Temp. the difference across the
chiller is assumed to be 5 deg. C. The chilling water is pumped through
heat exchanger using a centrifugal pump. Chilling circuit is as below,

Ans:

TR is the amount of heat to be extracted from the system or process.

Assumption:

1. Air is 100 % dry at inlet temp.

2. The system is well insulated and Heat gain from the atmosphere is
negligible.

Here cooling duty of the heat exchanger is the amount of heat to be

extracted and heat added by a chilling water recirculation pump.

Let's calculate Chilling duty (Qa) of the heat exchanger.

Qa = Air Flow rate x Cp of Air x (Air in temp – Air out Temp)

= 1000 kg X 0.24 Kcal/Kg ‘C x (45-10 ‘C)

= 8400 Kcal/hr

Qa = 8400/3024 = 2.78 TR ------------------ I

Let's calculate the chilling water flow rate (Mw) for Qa

Chilling water flow rate (Mw) = Qa / (Cp x (Chiller temp. Diff.)

Specific Heat of water=1Kcal/Kg’C

Mw = 8400 / (1*5) =

Mw = 1.7 m3/hr ------------------------ II

Pumping power (Shaft power) with about 30-meter liquid head and 30 %
pump efficiency is about 0.44 kWh. Assuming worse case that all
pumping power (Qp) will be added to liquid which is about 0.44 kWh i.e.
378 kCal/hr (1 kWh = 860 Kcal).

Total heat load on chiller is,

Qc = Qa+Qp

= 8400 + 378
 = 8778 Kcal/ Hr ------------------------------ III

Chiller Capacity = 8778 Kcal/hr i.e. 2.9 TR.