Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles, 5th Edition

Chapter 32. Evaporation

32.0 Chapter Objectives

On completion of this chapter, a student should be able to:

• Describe the process of evaporation

• Provide industrial examples of evaporation processes

• Describe the properties that can affect evaporation processes

• Identify different types of equipment used for evaporation processes and the methods by which they are used

• Explain how the overall heat transfer coefficient is calculated for evaporation

• Perform heat and material balances on evaporation units and processes

• Calculate the boiling point rise (BPR) of a solution using the Dühring Chart

• Determine the amount of steam required, the steam economy, and heat transfer surface area for evaporators and multi-effect evaporators

• Describe the operation ...