Falling Film Evaporator 1

Falling Film Evaporator

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Workshop
This example will be used to illustrate the use of TASC to Rate/Check a
falling film evaporator. Hence, the geometry of the exchanger and the
process conditions are known and you want to know from TASC if the
exchanger can achieve the required duty.

Learning Objectives
Once you have completed this section you will be able to:

• Setup a falling film evaporator case

• Enter specific enthalpy in property table

Process Overview
This example uses condensing steam on the shellside to evaporate a
falling film of 5% Brine on the tubeside. The data has been provided in
both SI and British/American Customary units.

Details of the exchanger are given in the table on the next page. It is a
single exchanger made of carbon steel and TEMA Class C.

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TEMA designation AEL

Shell diameter 27.5 Inches 700 mm

Shell orientation Vertical

Nozzle diameter shell in/out 6”/4” Inches 152/101 mm

Nozzle diameter tube in/out 4”/8” Inches 101/203 mm

Tube length 180” Inches 4572 mm

Number of tubes 86

Tube diameter 2” Inches 50.8 mm

Tube pitch 2.5” Inches 63.5 mm

Tube wall thickness 0.083” Inches 2.11 mm

Tube layout 60 Degrees 60 Degrees

End lengths in/out 15”/15” Inches 381/381 mm

Tubeside passes 1

Baffle Pitch 7.88” Inches 200 mm

Baffle thickness 0.4” Inches 10 mm

Number of single segmental 20/40%

baffles/cut

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Process Data in British/American units:

5%
Condensate 5% Brine
Steam in Brine
out in
out

Temperature degrees F 198.8 198.8 176 176

Flowrate lbs/hr 2685 13227

Inlet pressure psia 11.6 6.657

Pressure drop psi .75 0.145

Quality 1 0 0 0.2

Fouling factor hr ft2 F/BTU 0.00114 0.00114

Process Data in SI Units:

Steam Condensate 5%Brine 5%Brine

in out in out

Temperature °C 92.7 92.7 80 80

Flowrate kg/hr 1218 6000

Inlet pressure bara 0.8 0.46

Pressure drop bar 0.1 0.01

Quality 1 0 0 0.2

Fouling factor m2 K/W 0.0002 0.0002

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Physical Properties of 5% Brine

Temperature °C 80 80 °F 176 176

Liquid phase

Density kg/m3 1006 lb/ft3 62.8

Specific heat kJ/kg K 3.968 BTU/lb F 0.948

Viscosity centipoise 0.395 centipoise 0.395

Thermal W/m K 0.663 BTU/hr ft F 0.383

Conductivity

Surface Tension dyn/cm 63.8 dyn/cm 63.8

Vapour phase

Density kg/m3 0.283 lb/ft3 0.0177

Specific heat kJ/kg K 1.9 BTU/lb F 0.4538

Viscosity centipoise 0.0019 centipoise 0.0019

Thermal W/m K 0.0223 BTU/hr ft F 0.0129

Conductivity

Specific kJ/kg 0 462 BTU/lb 0 198.6

Enthalpy

Quality 0 0.2 0 0.2

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Building the Simulation

The New option will clear any data and call up the Startup screen.
Complete the Startup screen as a Checking case and set the units and
the physical properties.

1. Enter the Geometric data.

2. When in the Exchanger Geometry tab, select the Exchanger
Detail tab and choose Falling Film for the special exchanger
option.
Exchanger button

As the falling film evaporator

has the hot stream
condensing, ensure that the
first tube pass is set to "no",
i.e., co-current flow
downwards.

3. Enter the Process data.

Process button
All the data that is required has been entered. Save the dataset and
then run TASC by clicking the Run icon or Run from the menu bar, and
Calculate All.

Save your case!