Under standard pressure and temperature
During this laboratory experiment, recorded volumetric flow rates were displayed in
Standard Liters Per Minute (SLPM) and Standard Cubic Feet per Hour (Scfh). Since this
experiment did not actually operated under standard pressure and temperature, these gas flow
rates had to be converted to experimental Liters Per Minute (LPM) and cubic feet per hour (cfh).
The following equation was used to make both of these conversations:
FSLPM FLPM 273
Tgas
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Pgas
14.7
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Solving for F(LPM):
(2)
Where and were experimentally recorded temperatures and pressure all converted into
SI Unites (Degrees Kelvin and kilopascals). The same exact operation was performed to convert
Scfh to Cfh.
FLPM FSLPM Tgas
273
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Pgas
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Tgas
Following this, the determined experimental gas flow rates were converted To SI Units
(lits/min and ft3
/hr) to ( /sec) by finding the conversion factor between the two through the
dimensional analysis shown below.
For the inlet and cold streams:
(3)
v Flow Rate in
m3
sec (4)
and for the hot stream:
1ft 3
hr
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3
35.3 ft 3
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60min
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60sec
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¹¸ 7.869x106 m
3
sec
(5)
v Ý , Flow Rate in
m3
sec (6)
For the purposes of this experiment the air flows in the all streams were considered to be
ideal gases. This allowed for the calculate mass flow rates for the stream for using the Ideal gas
equation:
Pv mRT (7)
and solving for mass flow rate m ,
RT
Pv
m (8)
where R is the air gas constant (0.287kj/kg-K). The enthalpy values for the streams were also
calculating using an Ideal gas equation:
h c p xT (9)
where
c p is the specific heat of air (1.009kj/