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Homework Statement
In an industrial fryer is f.e. 400 kW. Heating capacity installed. The fryer may contain as much as 1.450 ltr of oil. I can fry 2.000 kg of chicken nuggets per hour in that. These products loose 7% of moisture/water in this process. That water can only escape from oil in gas form i.e. steam.
My question is, how much of my 400 kW is spend on the undesired steam forming of the 140 liter of water coming from the product. Can anybody give an indication?
In another thread I read that it takes as much as 8 kW to evaporate 1 liter of water. This would be more than the installed power in my fryer so cannot be true in this case. The frying process seems to be a much more efficient way to create steam but is not very efficient because we do not need steam.
Homework Equations
To evaporate 1 liter of water at room temperature requires ca. 8 kW I read in another post
The Attempt at a Solution
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[ Mod Note: member indicates he is working with this industrial fryer and he is not a student ]
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