Dear,
I am working on a chemical project where we need to dry feedstock to lower water content (100 ppm or less) due to the sensitivity of reactor of water.
We have 3 feedstocks (Tank volume: 18 m3, 100 m3 and 100 m3) the current design is to dry it with hot nitrogen (too much flow of nitrogen is required).
I talked with some vendors regarding the molecular sieve. However, vendor replied it is not going to work due to high viscosity (300 cp).
Questions:
1- Will hot nitrogen work for this?
2- Can I use Air Psychometrics chart to estimate the required N2?
3- If I am going to use hot nitrogen, should I change my tanks to vessel to ease the mass transfer or I keep Cone tank?
4- Is there an efficient and economical way to dry these feedstocks?
Abdullah
Thanks
Edited by Abdullah_28, 29 September 2017 - 10:58 PM.