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A. CASTILLO
Department of Chemical Engineering, Antioquia University, Medellin,
Colombia
April 6th, 2014
ABSTRACT
There is a wide variety of unit operations used in a chemical process and that
are studied separately, since the physical and chemical principles that govern
each are similar, facilitating their understanding to allow better use of them on
a given process. In this paper some aspects of the humidifying operation,
process description, advantages and disadvantages of it and some important
applications of this unit operation will be discussed.
Keywords: unit operations, chemical process, humidification.
1. Introduction
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The
humidification
and
dehumidification
operations
involving mass transfer between a
pure liquid phase and a permanent
gas is almost insoluble in the
liquid.
These
operations
are
somewhat
simpler
than
the
absorption and desorption, since
the liquid contains only one
component and no concentration
gradients or resistance to mass
transfer in the liquid phase. [1].
3. Process Description
4.
Humidification is an operation
that is to increase the amount of
steam present in a gas stream;
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3. The body of liquid then
transfers heat to the interface, and
thus cools.
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4. In turn, the evaporated
water is transferred to the air
interface, so that humidified [2]
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12. Applications
13.There is a wide number of
applications for this process. It
will remember three important
uses of it:
14. a. Cooling tower:
15.When a hot liquid is contacted
with an unsaturated gas, part of
the liquid evaporates and the
temperature thereof drops. The
most important application of
this principle is found in the use
of cooling towers to reduce the
temperature of recycled water
used by condensers and heat
exchangers in chemical plants,
power
plants
and
air
conditioning
units.
Cooling
towers are a large diameter
columns with types of special
packaging designed to provide
good liquid-gas contact with a
low pressure drop. The hot
water is distributed to the
packing by means of spray
nozzles or a grid notched pipes
or troughs. The air passes
through the packing by fans or
induced draft forced, or in
certain designs is driven by
natural convection. In the huge
23. Advantages
Disadvantages
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