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    Pipe Minimum Wall Thickness Calculation Using EN 13480 - Part 3

    Pavan, I think LI's point about pipe ordering means that you don't order pipe with a nominal size and a specified thickness (unless you want a horrendously expensive custom pipe). Instead, you get a minimum thickness from design equations, then find the next thickness up, and order that...
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    Non-Newtonian fluid ratholing

    Think about it this way. Shear stress is proportional to the differential velocity as a function of r (the du/dy term). Microscopically, the shell is immobile, and the surface molecules of the shell are being "pulled" (or pushed, if you want to think about the layer-to-layer friction that way)...
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    Non-Newtonian fluid ratholing

    Best case has a near 0-0 intercept on the green line (stress-shear curve). That tells me it's a standard shear thinning fluid (shear thinning due to the clear viscosity drop with shear rate. The worst case has a non-zero, but still small stress intercept near 15 ish Pa (this is called the yield...
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    Non-Newtonian fluid ratholing

    Farmer, There were two points to the exercise. Firstly, to get an idea of your flow profile shape. I think it's pretty clear that you have, as you initially suspected, a "pluglike" flow of faster core material with a shell of slow/sluggish material. Secondly, for your worst case material, it...
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    Non-Newtonian fluid ratholing

    You have an actual pressure drop of 1.5 bar per meter of pipe?
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    Non-Newtonian fluid ratholing

    Farmer, Look to see my note above (Notation correction: In the last part of my prior post, the picture for velocity profile includes mu and K. The author of that paper denoted K as the dP/dz, and used mu for what I called "K". Just an FYI, as the math won't math out otherwise. If you know what...
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    Non-Newtonian fluid ratholing

    Notation correction: In the last part of my prior post, the picture for velocity profile includes mu and K. The author of that paper denoted K as the dP/dz, and used mu for what I called "K". Just an FYI, as the math won't math out otherwise. If you know what pressure drop you are getting...
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    Non-Newtonian fluid ratholing

    Also, if you do the steps above, make sure to graph velocity, v, versus r (distance from center). This will give you a velocity profile in your pipe. Give the extreme shear-thinning nature here, I would expect to see velocity drop off from the center and very quickly approach 0. You won't ever...
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    Non-Newtonian fluid ratholing

    OP, since you have a rheology profile for your liquid, follow the below steps to get an equation that describes your fluid. Based on your graph, I would say your material is simply shear thinning, not a Bingham plastic, though starting out at a really high 0-shear of >1,000,000 cP. Ostwald-de...
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    Heat Exchanger UA value - Query

    To be honest, the only time I've seen UA calculated as a whole unit is on existing heat exchangers where you need to track fouling over time. Since the A is fixed, you don't really need to look up the area on each individual heat exchanger. Instead, you divide the heat load by the LMTD to get...
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    chloride diffusion in ptfe vs eptfe

    I think OP means chlorine gas, which can indeed permeate through PTFE material. The mechanism by which this occurs is periodic substitution of a F with a Cl on the polymer chain. Though F affinity is higher, it can be substituted by a Cl. Since F affinity is higher, it will return to kick the Cl...
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    Reactor MoC : High Salt Concentration

    I've sent you a PM.
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    Reactor MoC : High Salt Concentration

    Firstly, thank you for all the help you’ve given thus far. I am sorry for the continued questions, but my company doesn’t have any experience with these types of alloys, so I am having to rely on senior Google and helpful strangers like yourself. (Edit: Answered my own question. Found out...
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    Reactor MoC : High Salt Concentration

    I'll bring them out for good in 1 week and rinse/clean. This was a 1-week visual inspection made just due to the change in hue of some of the samples. We measured 4-point thickness on corners and also the weight before the test, so I'll be able to tell any thickness changes from corrosion and...
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    Reactor MoC : High Salt Concentration

    FYI we performed some initial corrosion tests in the lab with a few materials. In order of the pictures below, they are 2205, Alloy 20, and C276. This is 1-week of immersion under flowing conditions. Also FYI, the pH condition of the material was 0.8, not 4. It's quite obvious that C276 has...

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