Moltenmetal,Compositepro and StoneCold thanks for your help.Will remember "site etiquette" re fishing in future.
Both the air sparge and air blow over the surface (the tank is stirred)worked and will provide a cost effective solution to our problem.
Will post details when the GRP reactor is...
Many thanks for the response the following background info will put the situation in perspective.
We have just taken over the plant which manufactures ferric sulphate solution (very unsuccessfully) from iron oxide water and 98% sulphuric acid using the said GRP reactor under atmospheric...
Thanks, Initially I just wanted to know if anyone had tried this approach to cooling a reactors contents before and was it successful?
Happy to supply more details if you think the concept is feasible.
Regards Saffer
Does anyone have experience of cooling reactor contents using an air sparge?
We have just taken over a process in which a 30m3 glass fiber reactor (vented to atmosphere) contains 25m3 of an aqueous solution which requires cooling from 110 deg c to 70 deg C.
We do not want to use a graphite type...
