Study and operate a continuous flash evaporation process under reduced pressure
GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Polyethylene feeding tank.
- Stainless steel centrifugal pump
- Stainless steel mono-tube pre-heater.
- Evaporator, glass, stainless steel condenser.
- Shell and tube condenser.
- Graduated glass receiver.
- Stainless steel centrifugal pump, by-pass
- Overheating exchanger
- Cooling exchanger for steam condensate.
- Graduated glass receiver.
- Stainless steel centrifugal pump, draining valve.
- Water circuitry.
- Vacuum circuitry.
- Steam circuit.
Instrumentation
- Nine Pt100Ω temperature probes.
- Two manometers.
- Two absolute pressure transmitters.
- A relative pressure transmitters.
- A differential pressure transmitters.
- A level capacitive sensor.
- A level ultrasonic sensor.
- A float flowmeter.
- A gear flowmeter.
- A magnetic flow meter.
Study of the different technologies used
Study of the control loops
Pressure, vacuum, flow rate, level and temperature
Operate the evaporation process on aqueous product
Start‐up and warm up procedure
Monitor production and analyses material and thermal balance
Quality control by monitoring product density