Hello everyone,
I am currently having some head scratching trouble going over a cooling calculation to achieve optimal recovery of a solvent.
The machine i am dealing with has a flow of 80lbs/hr of N-Butane at 65°C and runs through a shell&tube heat exchanger that has 30' of 3/8" coil in a 24"x3.5" shell.
The solvent has to be converted back to liquid (cooled to 0°C) and sent to its recovery tank.
The true issue i am having is calculating the cooling BTU capacity that i need in order to size a glycol refrigerated circulating chiller with enough cooling capacity to keep up with the volume of solvent.
If you have any advice i would really, really appreciate it.
Thank you!