Esco chief engineer Neil Stone describes five common mistakes made by picklers, with actual case histories here
If you have Microsoft Excel 5.0 or higher, you might want to take a look at our emissions loss spreadsheet. Now expanded to include losses from sulfuric acid tanks
Other Excel Goodies
BESSEL.XLS - transient heating and cooling
calculations. Time to heat tank. Time to heat solid slab.
CALIBTK.XLS - calibration data for horizontal
cylindrical tank with dished heads.
CATENARY.XLS - solve catenary equations
COMPRESS.XLS - compressible flow calculations
CONE.XLS - cone and circle geometry
CVCALCS.XLS - control valve calculations; pressure
drop, flow, Cv
CYCLONE.xls - cyclone size and efficiency
calculations
DPT.XLS - calculate dewpoint of acidic gases; HBr, HCl,
sulfur dioxide, nitric, sulfuric
EXDUCT.XLS - strength for ducting under external
pressure
FLUMLVL.XLS - flow calculations for open channels and
flumes
ORIFICE.XLS - orifice plate calculations
PACKED.XLS - packed tower, hydraulic and packing HTU
calculations
PLATE.XLS - flat plate deflection and stress
PUMPCURV.XLS - convert pump or fan curve to
different speed
WEIR.XLS - rectangular weir calculations
For all of the above in one zip file
To download issues of the Esco News, click here.
For a PDF of "The Whys and Hows of Sulfuric Acid Pickling", click here.
For a PDF of "The Whys and Hows of HydroChloric Acid Pickling", click here.
For a PDF of "The Whys and Hows of Waste Water Treatment for Picklers ", click here.
For a PDF of "The Whys and Hows of Pickle Line Fume Scrubbers ", click here.
For a PDF of Neil Stone's AISE paper describing how plate type fume scrubbers work, and how they can benefit you click here.