Condensate Flash Tank
Condensate Flash Tank
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Hello everybody,
This is my very first post since I have discorvered this very useful website. I am currently working in a Spanish refinery and I am process engineering, just fresh from university. In my section of the plant, we have a HDS unit, Phatalic and Maleic Anyhride units, among with a solvent one.
I have been asked to calculate the right size (diameter, lenght) for a condensate flash vessel where the condensate at around 12 kg/cm2 is flashed to a pressure of around 2,5 kg/cm2 so the steam is introduced back in the low pressure steam network.
I have been trying to get information with no success. Do you know if there is some standarized procedure to calculate it?
The actual flash tank is vertical and it has a heavy corrosion problem after 35 years on stream. The unit has also been revamped and more equipment is discharging condensate to it, so in adition to corrosion the tank has become small for the required service.
This is only a very preliminary calculation. With the dimensions, material and thickness I will get a cost estimate that we will present to our management for the budget approval for 2007.
Thanks a lot
Best regards
This is my very first post since I have discorvered this very useful website. I am currently working in a Spanish refinery and I am process engineering, just fresh from university. In my section of the plant, we have a HDS unit, Phatalic and Maleic Anyhride units, among with a solvent one.
I have been asked to calculate the right size (diameter, lenght) for a condensate flash vessel where the condensate at around 12 kg/cm2 is flashed to a pressure of around 2,5 kg/cm2 so the steam is introduced back in the low pressure steam network.
I have been trying to get information with no success. Do you know if there is some standarized procedure to calculate it?
The actual flash tank is vertical and it has a heavy corrosion problem after 35 years on stream. The unit has also been revamped and more equipment is discharging condensate to it, so in adition to corrosion the tank has become small for the required service.
This is only a very preliminary calculation. With the dimensions, material and thickness I will get a cost estimate that we will present to our management for the budget approval for 2007.
Thanks a lot
Best regards





RE: Condensate Flash Tank
Visite el thread794-105012 con especial atencion a lo que Milton Beychok dijo.
Good luck.
RE: Condensate Flash Tank
Thanks a lot for your answer. It was my first topic and I had not discovered the search tool.
Tomorrow at work I will perform a prelimanary calculation with all the information I have gotten reading the topics.
Thanks again
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