Does anyone have information regarding the amount of N2 required to strip a given volume of water? Our water supply runs at about 10ppm DO. If I want to drop 30 Bbls of water from 10ppm to 0.1ppm, assuming standard Temp & pressure, is there a way to approximate the amount of N2 (or CO2 for that matter) that would be required for stripping? I'd like this information to make some cost and volume estimates on stripping gasses.
Plenty of brewers use nitrogen stripping, and a few use CO2 stripping. Nitrogen is used more frequently becasue it is cheaper to produce, and can often be bought in as a by product of oxygen production, but more simply by haveing a stand alone N2 generation plant - if the requirement is big enough.
Is the stripping more effective with some top pressure?
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