Horizontal liquid vapour separator without demister pad
Liquid density, ρL kg/m3
Vapour density, ρv kg/m3
Vapour mass flow, m kg/h
Liquid mass flow, kg/s
Hold-up required in vessel
Settling velicity, ut
settling vlocity of droplets
Vapour volumetric flowrate, Q
Take
hv
Lv/Dv
Cross sectional area for vapour flow
vapour velocity, uv
Vapour resindence time required for
the droplets to settle to liquid surface
For satisfactory separation
required residance time must be equal to actual residane time
minimum vessel dia
Round off to the standard pipe size
Liquid hold up time
Liquid volumetric flowrate
Liquid c/s area
Length
Hold-up volume
hold-up time
This much hold-up is not sufficient
So increase the diameter by a factor
Dv
New liquid hold-up volume
New residance time
= 962 kg/m3
= 23.6 kg/m3
= 12500 kg/h
= 10000 kg/h
= 10 min
= 0.441404 m/s
= 0.066211 m/s
= 0.147128 m3/s
= 0.5 Dv
= 4
2
= 0.392699 *Dv
-2
= 0.374659 *Dv
= 7.551665 *Dv
3
= 10.67639 Dv
= 0.841026 m
= 0.92 m (nearest standard pipe size)
= 0.002888 m3/s
= 0.332381 m2
= 3.68 m
= 1.22316 m3
= 423.6049 sec
= 7.060081 min
= 1.190132
= 1.094922 m
= 2.061906 m3
= 714.0792 sec
 = 11.90132 min
Lv = 4.379686 m
Key points
1 The diameter and length and the liquid level must be chosen to give sufficient
vapour residence time for liquid droplets to settle out and for required liquid
hold-up to be met.
2 The most economical length to diameter ratio will depend on operating pressure.
As a general guidethe following values should be used.
Operating pressure Length:Diameter Lv/Dv
0-20 bar 3
20-35 bar 4
>35 bar 5
3 For priliminary designs, set the liquid height at half the vessel diameter.
hv = Dv/2 and fv = 0.5
where fv = fraction of fraction of total c/s area occupied by the vapour.
hv = liquid height
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