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Parachute drying tower

Parachute drying tower

Parachute drying tower

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I have a project to design a parachute drying tower.  Basically, it's a tall metal building where they hang parachutes on hoists and run the A/c units heater to dry the chutes.  I'm looking for some help on how to calculate drying times and/or how much heat its going to take to dry a parachute in a day.  Any help would be appreciated!

RE: Parachute drying tower

To get a gross BTU input, figure the lbs of water in a wet chute, how many pounds are in "dry" chute.

Multiply the difference in lbs by 970 BTU/lb (latent heat vaporization for water) and this will tell you the number of BTU's required. To getr BTU/HR, you have to find out how fast you want to dry it.

I don't know anything about this process other than that. The details about this process will either make that BTU/HR number higher or lower.

At least this will get you an order of magnitude.

Clyde

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