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Blowdown from TDS

Problem

Feedwater TDS is 120 ppm and permissible boiler-water TDS is 3,000 ppm. Steam generation is 20 t/h.

Formula

B=S×Cf/(Cb−Cf)

Solution

B=20×120/(3000−120).

Answer

0.833 t/h

Engineering check

Verify units, magnitude, assumptions and physical meaning before accepting the result.