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[maskawafles]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to determine the time that takes a vertical vessel full of water up to HHLL (saturated water @ 100°C and 1 atm) to cool down to 60°C, in order to be able to dump the water for the water treatment plant. The vessel has a D:1,5m T/T:2,37m and HHLL:1,87m is made from Carbon Steel 8mm thick and has Insulation for personal protection of 0,5inch fiberglass. The ambient temperature is 27°C.

 

I was wondering what simulation software would you recomend (easy to use and quickest) or what method would you use to determine the residence time for the vessel

 

Thanks in advance.

[serra]

If you have basic questions, better to post on student's forum.  However, you know initial and final conditions;

you can estimate initial and final enthalpy for water, assume average heat capacity for steel, average thermal conductivity for fiberglass insulation, plus  some other data (wind, supports etc.)

 

Why don't you try to solve the problem yourself and refresh the knowledge of this topic ?

A good textbook would help, but probably even Google has many examples solved.

[PingPong]

Newton's Law of Cooling is applicable here.