How Much Work Does Steam Do Drying Water?

Is that 200 lb/hr of steam?

Or is it 200 psi, and if so, then how many lb/hr?

After refreshing myself on enthalphy of saturated steam...

It is 200lb/hr of steam at 15 psig.

This gives 232,000 BTU/hr with an enthalphy of steam at 1163.5 BTU/hr

While I haven't solved for sensible heat to bring the water to boiling temperature because I don't know the starting temperature, I know that with the available energy of 232,700 BTU/hr I can vaporize 241 pounds of water per hour.

What I am trying to determine now is how much volume 1 pound of water vaporized takes up at 212*F and 1 atmosphere of pressure.

I don't have a steam table in front of me, but that can probably be found on line, and will have that info.

I'm not sure about 100% efficiency of heat exchange, so maybe it might evaporate ~200 lb/hr. However, 241 is conservative for estimating the scrubber requirement.

Thanks for the support.

So I ended up taking the density of water at 212*F and of steam at 212*F and atmospheric pressure coming up with a total volume of steam from 241 pounds per water to be around 6500 Ft^3.

That checks out; 26.780 ft³/lb x 241 lb/hr ≈ 6455 ft³/hr.

Thanks, and to think it took me all day to realize what path to go down. I guess if you don't use it, you lose it.