CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

332 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING VOLUME 1 SOLUTIONS

Temperature (K) Vapour pressure of n-butanolkN/m^2 

330 5.99

335 7.89

340 10.36

345 14.97

350 17.50

Solution

See Volume 1, Example 13.10

PROBLEM 13.14

Estimate the height and base diameter of a natural draught hyperbolic cooling tower which
will handle 5000 kg/s water entering at 300 K and leaving at 294 K. The dry-bulb air
temperature is 287 K and the ambient wet-bulb temperature is 284 K.

Solution

See Volume 1, Example 13.8