. A ~ g ‘ O fur-11585 I § Bi- * ‘ .s- ./ . l ‘s' . l O Q I‘ , o I l D ‘1 ' '1. D .V O P I - ' n C ‘ 1 o C A ‘ . . . | l 1” ‘ -- ‘r I I ‘ I . . b ' ,‘ gt. ‘ ~ ' . ‘ a. I. . V V P . ’ .“ '11 ‘ I . I l . I ‘ O a I \ t . I l ‘ . . ' I Q \ . . I . (a I, -- 2‘ .J- a"' o . O ‘ O I i - o ‘1 R3170“? o f o- . -. . . fl, CVTfICAL 7T3 YfT'tTIQI‘IC 4w: " 01' 3713-33310 3 TE ‘73 7'! I "3 Roger Allen “ethane “my...“ anfi 7vans waarfi $oucher P/Q/Zfi Thib‘: ‘m 1-!" w This resort relates of the work done by Evans F. Foucher end ”oger A. Persons on their senior problem in ful“illment of ~46 I the requirements of Chemical Engineering Course 0 The principle problem taken up was the test run on s ”Dailaire” furnace to determine whether or not a blower mount— in the too of a warm air furnace and drawing air through the furnace is more efficient than a blower mounted at the base of the furnace and pushing air through the furnace. This problem occupied most of our laboratory time. The work was carried on in the laboratories of the Bail Steel Products Comnsny,_locat— ed in Lansing, Vichigan. ’ In addition to our main problem we worked out several practical nroblems that were brought to our attention. he analyzed a heating nroblem involving a drying kiln for drying hope. The analysis of this problem is enclosed in this renort. In addition to these two problems we made several trins with Hr. Dell and his associates on insnections of installed forced air equioment. The nrootical knowledge gained on these trips is impossible to present in this resort. We wish to thank Mr. Bail for his essistence in setting up the necessary equipment and also for his timely advice on several important points. 3‘ "3 {-11 M s: ' 13 f0 d- c? H +4 +4 TABLE OF CCNTEHTS Furnace Blower Test h p Drying Part I n10“?v recs Introductgzg In keeniny with the progress of the new air conditioning industry, the nail Cteel Products Coeoeny is mekins a furnace to be used in a forced air heating system. The blower used in connection with this furnace is not, however, simnly placed in some convenient place at the bottom of the furrece. It is moun- ted in the ton of the furnace. This practice is followed be- cause it is believed that better sir delivery can be obtained with the blower in this position than in any other position. It is the purpose of this problem to determine the dif~ ferences in air delivery of a furnace hsving a blower mounted in the too and the same furnace having the blower at the bot- tom. Annsrntus In order that a true comparison mifht be obtained, all con- ditions which related to the performance of the test were main- tained as nearly identical as possible. A "S fisileire furnace was used throughout the test. This furnace is of s size which is used in the sverene installation, and the inner nsrt is well designed for a forced sir system. The construction of the fur- nace is shown in the pictures. The sir enters at each side of the furnace and is cirCulated erund the combustion chamber and compartments containing the hot gaseous nroducts of combustion. A f7/8 Clarege fan was used throughout the test and was driven by the same constant speed electric motor. In all cases Sc é“ ' . . KQ E— 6 Bax/awe Unif . D- 3/)le metal duct (”72412;"). A — Add ‘z‘er (B/o war ~Furnace). B— Baff/c in Add/afar: F- "* 7/8 'C/drdgc“ HV Double fan. M- [/4 HR -‘ A.C. "Ho we //" Motor. B‘Sfiafi'c pres. furnace I'n/Qf Fi- STa'f/c pres. furnace ouf/QT.‘ Pa“ 37717-112 Fres- in dacf 0- DUC‘I‘ ouf/ef‘ ‘77aver5e loos/Tia”. W-Wood Supper-77 Dafe :- 6-02—33 r Sect/on-A Furnace B/ower _7és7L ‘5/ower Push/Hg Sea/c :~ /"-/' 56M 43*) at least twice the area of the fen ooeninq use svsilehle for in- let air to the fen. The size, length, and position of the outlet duct remained the same for each part of the test. The duct was also in the same position in resnect to the furnace, and the latter use in the same place in the room. There use at least eight feet of clearance between the end of the duct and the well or the room. The tests were all made with sir at the same temperature. The same nulleys, revolution counter, ston watch and enemometer were used throughout, with one exception, for which correction was node. The arrangement of the soosretus is illustrated in figure 1. Twelve feet (six sectionsl of 117 inch circular duct (3) were used at the outlet of the furnace. The fan (F) was driven by s constant speed motor (r). In the first two parts of the test, the air from the fen passed through the edeoter (A) where it was divided equally by the baffle (9) before entering the furnace. Procedure ' The same method of procedure see followed in each part of the test. In order to obtain different fan soeeds, and thus dif- ferent air deliveries, five pulleys of different diameters were used. the speed in eech ones being constant for the same pulley. The speed was measured by means of a revolution counter and a ston watch. The average of five readings of the enesometer taken at the end of the duct were used as a basis for determining the air delivery. The five nositions of the enenometer were such es to cover the entire duct. nne position of the instrument was st the center of the duct, and the other four positions were 90 degrees soert on the circumference. ggtg_gng_flesults The test is divided into three nsrts as follows: (1) Determination of sir delivery with the blower st the bottom of the furnace. (fig. 1) (3) Determination of sir delivery with the blower mounted in the too of the furnace using the same inlet as in (1). (fig 2) (3) fieterminstion of air delivery with the blower mounted in the too using two side oneninfis. (fig. 3) (In this part the back, or adapter inlet, was completely closed off, and in the first two parts the side Openings were completely closed off. the following table and soc mnsnyinfi curves contain the date so tabulated in the laboratory. Connerieon cg Feliverieo hotor Voter Fen Fen Cfm Air Delivery i Eff. of ” Tff. of ?ulley 9988i fihsft Pulley Fsrt ?ert Port (2) over (3) over Size (??”l “peed Pize (l) (2} (3) (1) (1) Z" 175? 40G 12" 581 C73 '715 15.8 23 31" 1752 435 1:” see 772 827 13.5 no 4" 1750 $43 1”" 733 filt 977 ?O.Q T3 4?" 1750 see 2" 978 1040 ll93 1e.: 97.5 53" 1750 715 1?" 1oz: 1750 137a 1e.s 31.5 d (D H O) a a Q) I H \1 (A o I 7-] .25 MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE .II I , II I . I II II. . _ _. I IV A , I p I. .III. I _ I I “I I I _ I I I ..u I. _ I I In .I I . . I v I . ~ ..I. 4 v I I. __ . _ _ h h I VIA. I II. o _I I ._ I . . I I I O I.| I 0 III .. IIII . .II. I I . I ._ I I II 1 I I I, .I I4 IIOI. ....I I I I O 0 .' I o. I .I o .... I. . I . l I . 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II II I III-I v ... I . I I '1 I .I I II. I I . ,. . I . _ I p +00... YAIOI C I I. . .: I.. I . I .I ~ ..VI’IOO .IQ: w .0 I. x I “V f IMOIII All! r I ..I I _ I o I I I O. I. '. OIIIIIO ‘ vi a _. . I n . F. I I I I I OOIIVIO~ . v. I III 0.. o b o I v‘. ..I.... w .. I .I I . I ._I I. I I I «'oo.I o . . In . III I I. . I I I I5 .fi_ 5 . v _ I III. IF. I.. I .- I \.I._. I. II I _ . _ I 3 end r3 is the friction loss in the duct. The interesting thing to be observed as a result of these readings is the fa*t that the friction loss through the furnace was approximately the same for each setup, at the same fan speed. It may therefore be concluded that any difference in air delivery among the three setups was not due to difference in friction. Discussion g§_9§§ults The question then is, what does cause the difference in air delivery in the different blower arrangements? Upon observation of the data, or curves plotted from the data, it spacers that the differences are due entirely to the turbulence of the air in the furnace. In part (1) (fia.l) with the blower at the bottom, the air is forced straight ahead against the inside of the furnace. Eddies are then set us, because the air must change its direction to go to the too of the furnace and out the ducts, but is held back by more air being forced in against it. The air already in the furnace must be displaced, however, and so it is squeezed out by the incoming air. This condition does not produce a uni- form flow from the blower, but it sets us a back pressure or damper effect which prevents the fan from delivering as much as Sc é“ ' . . KQ E— 6 Bax/awe Unif . D- 3/)le metal duct (”72412;"). A — Add ‘z‘er (B/o war ~Furnace). B— Baff/c in Add/afar: F- "* 7/8 'C/drdgd‘ HV Daub/Q fan. M- [/4 HR -‘ A.C. "Ho we //" Motor. B‘Sfiafi'c pres. furnace I'n/Qf Fi- STa'f/c pres. furnace ouf/QT.‘ Pa“ 37717-112 Fres- in dacf 0- DUC‘I‘ ouf/ef‘ ‘77aver5e loos/Tia”. W-Wood Supper-77 Dad's :- 6-02—33 r Sect/on-A Furnace B/ower _7éS7L ‘B/OWQr Push/Hg Sea/e :~ /"-/' 56M 43*) f‘In/Qf fih—i Dare :- 5’/5'33 I 5/0 we r Exhaus 77’79 Sea/QI-l'=/' // . it should. Thet is, some of the sir is forced out the blower through the same oneni.g it entered. In part (8) (fig.2} with the blower at the too and the air entering through the same Opening es in part {1}, the air is not forced easinst the inside of the furnace, nt is drawn up through it, thus eliminating a large amount of the eddies end turbulence which were present in part (1). The best air delivery wee obtained in pert (3) (fis.3) in which the blower was mounted in the too end sir one admitted through an Opening on each side of the furnace. This arrange— ment results in the minimum amount of turbulence or dancer ef- fect. The reason for this is that the side openings allow a steady stream of sir to flow up through the furnace to the fan. Conclusion In reviewing the observations made in this test, the fol- lowing statements may be made: 1. Maximum sir delivery may be obtained with a blower mount- ed in the tap of a furnace having n inlet on each side. if.) . An increased sir delivery may be obtained by placing a blower on top of a furnace instead of at the bottom, other coup diticns being equal or the same. 3. The air delivery of a $7/8 Clsrege fan is indecendent of the temperature of the sir. 4. Friction lose in a furnsce is independent of the motion of the sir, other thinse being equal. Form 257-6 Sheet No. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, MECHANIC AL ENGINEERING LABORATORY MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE Running Log chug/0.391.011! ...... Sefi/o....m-:...Pu5./21h ....................................... I .............................. ........................................................... 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Heaffecl [7/7 21. . 22 372, 23 4- 24. 4%: . 25 Remarks: Form 257-0 Sheet No._,.H MECHANICAL ENGINEERING LABORATORY ’ MICHIGAN STATE COLLEGE ‘ Running Log of ,O/CHEI‘“ ..... ijfGITJ’Puf/UU ......................................................... 7 ........... Observem{EEmBE§L-{EI/{é? """"""""""""""" { , .- Kfif’hrscnb ........................................................... Date_S/._i_/_,/_ Q3 ........ 193 . :4”: _- -_—_:1-_;: ' - -. . as 0‘ ‘I" ‘0 fl) U) m a In mm mm ‘° 2 "’ '8 t L} Earning ¥3E4~ ‘1‘ g) 0 CL“ 0 0 +3 k '9 +3 L J y +— LL 0 *‘ o 2-» U *3 5 L3 C 3 1: ' 4”" 0~~a 41-h i"fp-¢~3;C: --m. ~ : 1- .5 ‘3 \1~ 3 Q '0 I «y. 3 0 EC: 0 Q‘JEKV «31L» ... ‘: .‘i C 'J °~ 6L5 LE $- m+~ Bk W '~ 1*“ F ,, .. __ . noc one scone nacho mcwsoaaom ssh mc_:o_:1cou ._< 1:. mczoeI .o Eunim §®o Part II HOP DRYI?C Introduction: In our work with ”r. hail we come in contact with a dry- ing problem. Peing Chemical Pngineering students, we felt that we would benefit by analyzing the problem. Tt see a nroblem on the calculetion of the heating load for a hog kiln st Yakima, Washington. In addition to the analysis of this nroblem we made a brief study of the harvesting end drying of hens, glVb ing a discussion on some of the present types of hon kilns. August and September are the hOp harvesting months in California. The orOp in the Sacramento Valley matures from one to two weeks earlier than in the coastal area. At harvest, the vines are pulled from the trellis and the cones are picked, either by hand or by machine. Picking two hundred pounds of cones by hand is a good day‘s work, although three to four hundred pounds are sometimes nicked. Picking charges vary from 80 cents to Tl.OO per 100 pounds. Von nicking machines have been successfully used in some large yards. One machine with 40 sen can harvest twelve to fifc teen hundred bsles (1 bale 180 to 830 hounds) oer season (an average of 250,003 sounds), or the hose from about 150 sores. One machine will, therefore, replece from $25 to 250 hand pickers. then picked the contains from 66 to 75 per cent water. Drying to 10 to 14 oer cent water is necessary to prevent snoilage during storage. For drying, the cones are oiled in a loose level pile (about 13 inches deen) on the drying floor. Then the floor is filled the kiln is closed excent for the ventilators and onen- inss where cold air is admitted and the fire incressed. The temnerature beneath the drying floor is kept low at first, about 100 to 130 degrees; as the drying progresses the temp- erature is increased to 150 or 160 desrees Vshrenheit. The temoernture is controlled somewhat by the firing, but more by regulating the admission of cold air and the ventilators at the too. A thermometer is suSpended just under the dryiny floor. Too high temneretures are certainly had, for even if the hone are not scorched or scelded much of the volatile oils are driven off and certain changes are produced in the lunulin. At a temperature not exceeding 180 Fahrenheit it requires from ten to eleven hours to dry an eighteen inch floor of hone. Then the hone have been on the floor long enough for the heat from below to have gone through them, they are turned so as to get the more moist ones from the too onto the bottom next to the cloth. In a very short time after they are turned they will be ready to take off the kiln. then pronerly dried the bracts will be nerfectly dry, but the stems of the cones will still be soft and pliable. Vere is where the exoerience and skill of the drier cones in. Insufficiently dried hone ere set to mold or best in the cooler and if hiohly dried the bracts break off and the insulin falls out, seriously injuring the quality of the hens. ?rom the drvinx floor the hose are removed to the cooling room where they lose their heat end absorb some moisture from the air. The stems ere usually not so drv es the other sorts of the hog, and during the sweating process the moisture is equalized and the hope become tough and oliehle. The best in- formed growers recognize that other imnortent chsn4es occur curing the sweating process which materially effect the quality of the product. A finer end more olensing srome, as well as a better physical sooesrsnce, is develoned during sweating, nro- video the process is onrefully watched end the hose prevented from becoming too moist or heated. Jnder ordinary circumstances these two evils are avoided by loosening up the hone and turn- in; them over With forks or by moving them to another nert of the cooler. If taken in time, slack hoos may be brought out in this way and oracticslly freed from their sour, musty smell. If the hops in the cooler become too moist, their condition may he imoroved by dueninf over them a cor full or hot dry home just from the kiln. Likewise hone that have become too dry in the cooler may be helned by mixing with them hone taken from the kiln a little before t“ey ere prooerly dry. Great care and good judgment are necessary for proper handling in the cooler, and more attention given to this phase of hon curing will cer- tainly result in an improved quality of nroduct. It is the rrcctice smonf some California growers to sul- nhur hone during the drying nrocese, although unsulohured hone bring a premium of 3 to 3 cents per pound. “ulohuring side in the drying crocess, bleaches the hope to the desired color, and assists in holding the quality of hops during storage, al— though in past hears some difficulty has arisen from the arsen- icsl content of hops. lrPor exnorting to England, hoos must not contain arsenic in excess of 0.01 grains ner pound, or 1.4 parts oer million. as it has been proven that most of the ar- senic in bone is obtained from the use of imoure sulfur, only sulfur free from arsenic should be used. Quality The following characteristics determine the quality and value of hone. 1. They should have a silky luster and be of a pale greena ish-yellow or golden color, neither too green or too much bleached. 2. The cones should not be too large end are preferred of a conical shade, rather than cylindrical or sobericsl. The size deoends on the locality where grown and to be considered in that light, but generally the smaller the hon the greater the preportion of lupulin. The cones should not be broken or the bracts standing onen, as then the insulin readily drone out and is lost. 3. They must be clean nicked, free of leaves end stems, weeds, dirt or other foreign setter; free of discolored or moldy hone. 4. They should possess a fine strong eroms free of any moldy, musty or garlicky smell. "en hone have the strongest aroma; this declines with ego and finally gives olsce to a cheesy smell in old hens. 5. A maximum lupulin content is desirable. Further, hey should be neither slack dried nor high dried. They should not be broken by squeezing in the hand, but when firmly pressed in the hand they should adhere closely together st first and then slowly assume their original form. E_osent tyoes of kilns The kilns in use at the present time are built in a two story arrangement. A heating unit is placed on the ground floor and a drying ares, composed of 2x4 rafters covered with coarse burlap, constitutes the uooer floor. The roof goes to a peek, st which is elsced an exhausting louver arrangement. The oldest type (fig.l) is one in which a gravity heating stove {wood burning) is placed in the bottom and the warm air rises from this up to the hon bed. It requires a considersble length of time for-the warm air to break through the hop bed, but when it does the drying is finished in a short time. Some of the more observing owners took sdvsntsve of this fact and placed fans in their structures to help crests a pressure to force circulation through the hep bed. yigure 8 shows a fan installed in the tOp of the kiln and exhausting air from the structure. This arrangement proved to be quite practical. Its greatest fault was the creating of a vacuum shove the hop bed which in turn caused a large amount of infiltration (as indi- cated by the arrows) which resulted in heat losses and dust. A 7/— ‘QHOP‘ / \ / a \Q / J \ ff/ / \ / { z \\2 {‘3 / Fr: 5? [.53 032‘ Figure 3 illustrates another tyne of auxiliary fan instsl~ lstion. The fan is mounted in the wall of the heater room and creates a large stetic pressure, which is transmitted by the heating ducts to the hon bed above. ”his srrsngement also re— sults in large losses due to the exfiltrstion from the heat- ing room. The inefficiency of these installations is largely due to the loose cons ruction of the building and not so much to the type of heating system. The buildings, therefore, must be prooerly constructed in order to have much success with a forced air heating system. The ideal equipment for drying hOps, we then conclude, would consist of a fan installed in a building of fairly tight construction. This system would shorten the drying period con» sidersbly and also facilitate the control of the drying oner— stion. Figure 4 shows a Usilsire instellstion which is sealed from the furnace to the hon bed. In this csse no warm air is lost through the walls below the hon bed and no air is drawn into the building above the hop bed. On the other hand, the air passing out of the ton and through the walls shove the hon bed is carrying part of the moisture in the hope slon: with it and thus no loss is incurred. ”his system thoroughly sealed throughout, with the exception of the exhaust louvers, would probably be even better. Figure 5 illustrates a sealed forced warm air system (749'?) T:\‘\' 45‘: -(szg. WI DA/ (4/ RE U \ Rt :2 Had L \J J_:J__ I \ // Lo _w-IB ner (f1'3.4-) Scale /7=/ £4.53 Lu (f :95) which is equinned with ducts and e plenum chamber below the hop bed. This errsngement makes possible such were room on the ground floor, which may be used for storsgc susce. gglgulation ogthe Seating iced The original problem involved was the calculation of the heating load on the heating unit, which was to renlsce en in- stallation as shown in figure 1. The building is to be sealed, however, so that the well leekeges will be reduced to a min- imum. The new heating unit is to be installed as illustrated in figure 5. beta The data was obtained by correspondence from ”r. Iss- rence, who handles Feileire equipment in Yakima, Washington. The necessary data for the problem is as follows: 1. Dimensions of drying floor *-------- Sfi'x 30' 2. reig t of bone ---— 5.55 lbs/sq ft at depth of 2 feet 3. height of ester in hone ---- 75? of total weight 4. Hope to be dried to ester content of 10’ " " 5. Tempereture of air at hop bed --- 140 T. 6. Eonnet tempers ure of furnace ---- 150 m 7. Outside temperature of air 60 F. st 60’ relative hum. 9 t. Air delivery is to be 6,000 c.f.m. from furnace. Calculations l. Vest to evenorste rater: 30r30 . 900 sq. ft. (area of dryine floor) .90x.7515.55 - 3.75 lbs. water oer sq. ft. erea 000x3.75 a 3,380 lbs. water to be retoved oer charge Sensible heat to water from so to 140 . eo rtul 1b. Latent heat of evaooration at 140 W. . 1014.4 ftul lb. Total heat required to even. water - 1094.4 Ttu/lb. 3,38031004.4 - 3,700,000 Ptu total to eveoorete (3750—3380)x(140-00) a $7,.“ Btu sensible heat to moisture in hoes which remains after drying 3,700,000 4 2e,:>‘ . 3,7?e.o“7 utu total required 2. Quantity of Air: Sensible heat to air from 60 to 141 a (teen. change)x(soec. heat)x(wt oer cu. ft) (140—50) x (.2die? x (.077) lbs. 80x.24151.077 . 1.4876 etu/cu ft. Fensible heat to water vaoor in air et 60' rel. hum. (temp. chengelx(soec. hentEant oer cu. ft) 80 ix.ooc4ee . .04o eta/cu ft. 1.4073 4 .010 . 1.53 min oer cu. ft.(csrried by air? {A J... ”9,600 3 3,440,000 cu ft eir required .33 3. Drying Period: Fan delivery 3 5,000 cfm. 6,000x60 a 360,000 cu ft per hour 2,440,030 + 330,030 3 8.8 hours per batch 4. Relative Humidity of Exhaust Air: Air at 140 F. will hold .00813 lbs. water per cu ft Exhaust contains 3580 = .001385 lbs/cu ft 5,140,000 .001385 a 17% rel. hum. .008130 5. volume of Air per Square foot of Floor: VOlume = Cfm = 6000 a 6.67 cfm per sq ft Area 900 6. Rating Table: Cfm Cfm/sq ft Btu/hr req. Period (hrs) 3000 3.33 375,000 13.5 4000 4.45 367,000 10.1 5000 5.55 459,000 8.1 6000 6.67 550,000 6.8 7000 7.78 643,000 5.8 8000 8.90 754,000 5.0 The above values will have to be corrected for each instal- lation as the heat loss from the building must be figured into the total heating load. The table, however, indicates the gen- eral relationship between drying period and volume of air. 7. Rating Table for Pr0posed Lawrence Kiln: The following table is based upon the kiln designed by Mr. Lawrence, the kiln having a drying area of 2592 square feet (2136136). The table shows the general relationship between drying perios and depth of the bed of h0ps. .\...m\. ”Mimom ENS \\<.~n\ K. 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