Old Equipments - Dryer

Dryer heats the pulp with high or medium pressure steam and dries it in draught.

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Data Description

Data Unit Description
Set Item Type Native
Equipment Properties Outlet air relative humidity Fraction or Percentage Fraction The fraction of the maximum kg water gas carried by one kg dry air
Outlet pulp stream solids. Fraction or Percentage Fraction The solid fraction in the outlet pulp stream
Outlet air temperature Temperature F The outlet air stream temperature
Outlet pulp temperature Temperature F The outlet pulp stream temperature
Heat transfer efficiency Fraction or Percentage Fraction The fraction of heat effectively transferred from the condensing steam.
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Equipment Properties

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Example of using equipment

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Method&Equations

The Dryer calculates the amount of water that need to be evaporated to obtain outlet solid fraction
W = INFLO * (1 – INSF / OUSF)
where:
    W is the amount of water that needs to be dried out from the inlet pulp stream
    INFLO is the total inlet pulp stream mass flow
    INSF is the inlet pulp stream solid fraction
    OUSF is the outlet pulp stream desired solid fraction
The model back-calculates the amount of air needed to transport the water
    AIRIN = W / RHOUT / AIRHMAX
where:
    AIRIN is the amount of air required
    RHOUT is the outlet air relative humidity
    AIRHMAX is the outlet air maximum absolute humidity at the given conditions
Next the Steam Dryer calculates the quantity of heat required:
    Q = (PENTHI - PENTHO) * INFLO + (AENTHI - AENTHO) * AIRIN
where:
    Q is the heat required
    PENTHI is the specific enthalpy of the inlet pulp stream
    PENTHO is the specific enthalpy of the outlet pulp stream at the specified conditions
    AENTHI is the specific enthalpy of the inlet air stream
    AENTHO is the specific enthalpy of the outlet air steam at the specified conditions
The Steam dryer model back-calculates the amount of steam required as:
    AMS = (Q / (ESTM - ESOUT))
where:
    AMS is the amount of steam required
    ESTM is the enthalpy of the inlet steam
    ESOUT is the enthalpy of steam at the outlet conditions you specified

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Warnings

Zero water vapor! Air in not calculated!

Zero pulp flow entering!

Zero air flow entering!

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Errors

Missing Stream(s)!

Division by zero!

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