Hold up tank design
Hold up tank design
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Can I have some help please
I need to design a tank that will hold up 85C water flow for one hour. That is the liquid enters and leaves the device at a constant flow but the liguid takes one hour to pass though.
I could do this with a coil of pipe. At say 2m/s the pipe would need to be 7200m long!
Is there a smart tank and buffle design to do this?
The tank also has to be very well insulated so the liquid does not cool much.
Thanks
I need to design a tank that will hold up 85C water flow for one hour. That is the liquid enters and leaves the device at a constant flow but the liguid takes one hour to pass though.
I could do this with a coil of pipe. At say 2m/s the pipe would need to be 7200m long!
Is there a smart tank and buffle design to do this?
The tank also has to be very well insulated so the liquid does not cool much.
Thanks





RE: Hold up tank design
Elie Abou Jaoudeh
RE: Hold up tank design
RE: Hold up tank design
You can put baffles in a tank that will help some. This becomes an issue in designing water tanks for chlorine contact time. But there's no real way to say that each molecule of water stays in the tank at least an hour.
A similar issue is in thermal storage tanks, but there the temperature differential helps keep the water stratified. But various schemes of headers have been used to help with the process.
RE: Hold up tank design
Google thermal storage tanks and you should find some guidance, though mostly based on chilled water but similar principals should apply, just be aware 1 hour at full flow may result in a large tank!!