Research Article
Study and Development of a Complete System for Recovery, Recycle, and Disposal of Refrigerant Gas from Existent Plants
Table 4
Technical data of the adsorbent columns CD1 and CD2 of Figure
2.
| Design parameters | |
| Gas velocity | <0.3 m/min | Liquid velocity | 0.25 m/min | Minimum bed length | 1.2 m/min | Molecular sieve | CRYOSIV, Grace MS594 | Sieve capacity | 10% | Sieve density | 790 kg/m3 |
| Input | |
| Total mass flow rate | 600 kg/hr | Liquid density at 398 K | 800 kg/m3 | Max. inlet Humidity | 1000 ppm | Max. outlet Humidity | 5 ppm | Gas amount for column | 1000 kg |
| Output | |
| Total volumetric flow rate | 0.375 m3/hr | Water amount to be removed | 0.995 kg | Water flow rate to be removed | 0.299 kg/hr | Molecular sieve amount | 9.95 kg | Sieve volume | 0.013 m3 | Calculated column inner diameter | 0.219 m | Commercial column inner diameter | 0.220 m | Bed length | 1.2 m | Column inner volume | 0.046 m3 | Sieve weight | 36.02 kg |
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