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CHE 315: UNIT OPERATIONS LABORATORY Department of Chemical Engineering Ryerson University Fall 2006 Experiment 1: Estimation of Drying Rate And Time in a Tray Dryer Instructor: Mehrab Mehrvar TA: Seyed Hosseini Group D: Ruston Bedasie Mina Bekhit Reena Ghai Sumit Sumra Kentson Yan Date Experiment Performed: October 17th, 2006 Date of Submission: October 24th, 2006 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Theoretical Background 4 Experimental Procedure 8 Results and Discussion 9 Error Analysis 13 Conclusions and Recommendations 15 References 17 Appendix 18 Raw Data 18 Sample Calculations 20 List of Figures Figure 1 - Variation of drying rate with free moisture content 6 List of Tables Table 1- Comparison of time of constant rate and falling rate 9 Table 2 - The rate of constant drying 10 Table 3 - Average temperatures of inlet and outlet condition 12 Table 4 - Raw Data 18 Table 5 - Data for X vs T graph 19 Introduction The objective of this experiment was to examine the performance of a batch dryer for a mining company's product. Test runs were performed using wet sand in a test dryer. The pilot-scale tray dryer was used to obtain a drying curve for wet sand and to...

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