Hi jrmichler thanks for the reply, here are the answers:
1) Correct
2)Correct
3) The room is cooled, generally temperatures are between 35-40 F. So Ambient temperature shouldn't have a huge affect
4) Ideally 34 F but the dwell time of the product in the bath is variable from 45-90 seconds
5)...
-Ideally the Product would leave at 34 F, the product itself is organic and can be calculated as if it were just water.
-The water used to replenish is from a separate already existing chiller
-In the no chiller example I assumed no water loss just to get a baseline
Thanks Lnewqban!
That water attaches to the product flowing through and is lost outside the system during transport or drying (it is recollected for other use but not again in this system)
I have been wracking my head about this one... In other jobs I have sized chillers a few times but this one is a bit different.
We have a "Bath" of water, about 400 Gallons
The baths beginning temperature is 34 F
5000 lbs of product runs through this bath every hour at a temp of 40 F
Roughly...