RE: Pipe Sizing

Hi

A useful design velocity guideline from the sugar industry (reference E. Hugot Sugar Handbook), is as follows

Superheated Steam 40 - 75 m/s
Saturated Steam 25 - 35 m/s
Exhaust Steam (Turbine) 30 - 45 m/s
Vapour under Vacuum 45 - 60 m/s

Off course, while this is a useful guideline, pressure loss in piping and fittings need to be taken into consideration.

Ahmed Vawda
Process Engineer
Al Khaleej Sugar Dubai

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Wed Jun 27 02:44:00 2001