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Skumar84 From the LEL of R32 (14% in air) you know that the amount of diluent which can prevent continued combustion of R32 is in the ratio of 86 : 14 = 6.14 :1 when the diluent is Air. If you have the relative specific heat of R125 vs that of air you can estimate the amount of R125 needed to...

Thanks !! I totally missed that !! David

Saver 2008 The steam needed for smokeless performance will actually vary widely based on many factors. Smoke forms in the flare flame because the gas in the center of the flow stream gets hot and "cracks" before it meets up with oxygen to convert. The smoke forms initially as atomic carbon but...

I need to set up charts which "read" results to use as the X axis and automatically draw the axis to a linear scale, regardless of the values. (Quattro does it but I can't find a route in Excel) I am attaching a spreadsheet as a sample. Similarly how can I reset the linear axis so that it...

Jobst Your approach will work. pro-rating the values from the charts and then using Le Chatelier is a good technique. Essentially you will find that the volumetric dilution of inerts works roughly in proportion to the specific heat of th diluent at flame temperature. I call it Nitrogen...

Your conditions are simply flow and orifice issues. The sonic flare is just a final orifice on the pressure relief. The smallest hole in the system will control what happens to the flows and pressures. I have to suppose that the total orifice area through the flare tip is that hole. If so it...

NOLAengineer A good reference is the current design wind code for the USA, ASCE-7. Winds are usually referenced at 10 meter elevation. The wind exponent essentially measures the drag created by the various aspects of surface roughness generated by objects on the ground. Once you reach a...

zomg11one Blower Power = air mass flow rate (mass/time) x the equivalent height of a column of air which provides the same pressure as the blower (length) This gives units M L/T Convert to whatever power units you need with standard conversions. Increase the motor size according to the...

Nazli7 I'm a little confused by the question. Ammonium hydroxide is just ammonia in water. If you are burning ammonia, where does the extra water come from. Even if you have some extra hydrocarbon to help the flammability, surely the amount of intermediate NH4OH is not going to be significant...

preynolds Sorry to say you may not find it. Flame speeds are determined empirically. Good flame speed data is hard enough to come by for gases, let alone liquids which have to be warmed up so that they exceed a temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid exceeds the partial pressure...

curiousmechanical You're not alone. This is that aspect of physics where wave form theory concides with particle theory. If we had such a good handle on this to explain it properly in layman's terms we'd be on a forum for quantum physicists not engineers. Try thinking of radiant heat just as...

gatech74 You may need to post this question in anither forum. Materials perhaps. David

Charles Is this a theoretical problem or a real world issue? If it's the latter, there are things called explosions and detonations to think about which involve flame temperature, dynamics and container conductivity as well as molar balance. How close to a stoichiometric mixture will you be...

fikayo2004 The formula you cite probably derives from work published by the Bureau of Mines (Bulletin 627) which included empirical results for Natural Gas. Two formulae are given L (vo%) = 4.9 - 0.71 logP (atm) U (vol%) = 14.1 + 20.4 logP (atm) (The work reports a standard error of 0.53% for L...

keddo The entire system out to the end (where the air can enter) has to figure in the contraction calculations. You might have any one of the following conditions - Starting with a cold system, you get a short term release of hot vapor which fills or partially fills the header. The rate of...