CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SERIES: HEAT TRANSFER

SOLVED PROBLEMS

Prior to the processing of a vegetable oil in a plant, it has to be heated to a certain

temperature. At the Cebu plant, 5,000 kg of vegetable oil at 20C is charged to an
agitated vessel with heating coil with a heat transfer area of 30 m 2. The over-all heat
transfer coefficient is 900 kcal/hm 2C and the thermal fluid is flowing at the rate of
10,000 kg/h inside the heating coil. The inlet temperature of the thermal fluid is 350C
and its specific heat is 0.8 kcal/kgC. Assume the specific heat of the vegetable oil is
0.9 kcal/kgC. how many minutes will it take to heat the vegetable oil to an average
bulk temperature of 250C?
.
Source: CHE BP May 1986

SOLUTION:

For coil in tank: non-isothermal heating medium, using equation 11-35b CHE HB 8th edition:

T 1t 1 WC K 11
ln =
T 1t 2 Mc K 1
( )
K 1=e UA /WC

[ (900 h mkcal C ) (30 m )

]
2
2
K 1=exp =29.2243
kg kcal
( 10,000
h )(
0.8
kg C )
35020
=
( 350250 )
ln

(10,000 kgh )( 0.8 kgkcal C ) 29.22431

kg kcal ( 29.2243 )
( h )( kg C )
5,000 0.9

=0.6954 h

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