Recent content by Amused_1

Ok, I’ll respond to your first response in the morning after I’ve refreshed myself on some process physics! I should probably mention that while I’m a Lead Operator, we actually have a Technical Manager that’s supposed to be sorting all of this. He’s distracted with another project at the moment...

In this case, no. It’s a bullet-type shell and tube heat exchanger, and while it could suffer from the problem you mentioned it seems to be working fine. We even increased the flow of cooling water through it just in case but I think it might have been unnecessary.

Thank you very much. I’m currently on my fortnight off (the perk of shift work!) but when I get back I’ll have something to work with [emoji106]

Thanks for the response. Normally, with the used service water returning to the work tank before being pumped back up to the vac tank to service the liquid ring pump again, it mixes with enough cool water from the condenser vessels that it is a good operating temp when it gets back to the vac...

It’s difficult to explain the setup, but my drawing skills aren’t great so here goes... The main parts of our vacuum system are: The work tank - this is where all condensed water/solvent returns to from the plant. The solvent (Hexane) separates to the top and flows over a weir to the ‘clean’...

Yes, though we haven’t done linseed for years. We’re a toll extraction company for specialty seed oils

Hi all. First, some context. I work for a small seed oil extraction plant where we cold press the seed then solvent extract the residual oil from the presscake. In the solvent extraction plant we use liquid ring pumps to pull the required vacuums. The Plant Vac Pump (PVP) is used in all...

Thank you [emoji106] Most of my posts will probably be along the lines of ‘we have X issue, could Y be the problem?’ An example (without going into much detail here) would be that we have a water ring pump on our vacuum system that’s generating a lot of heat, is this normal or could it be...

Hi all, Thought I’d share a little about myself (at least the ‘work’ me). I’ve come to the forum looking for advice about a few different topics - all process based - that while technically above my pay grade I have a keen interest in for the sake of making my job easier/better. I’m a Lead...