Session 1112-2

Homework 1 SKKK 1113 Section 06 Date Due 20th March 2012 at 8:00 am
Instructions: Write your basis, sketch the process and box your numerical answer with its unit. Start a new problem on a fresh page. Late home is not tolerated.

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Three hundred gallons of a mixture containing 75.0 wt% ethanol (ethyl alcohol) and 25% water (mixture specific gravity = 0.877) and a quantity of a 40.0 wt% ethanol 60% water mixture (SG = 0.952) are blended to produce a mixture containing 60.0 wt% ethanol. The object of this problem is to determine V40, the required volume of the 40% mixture. (a) Draw and label a flowchart of the mixing process and do the degree-of-freedom analysis. (b) Calculate V40. One thousand kilograms per hour of a mixture containing equal parts by mass of methanol and water is distilled. Product streams leave the top and the bottom of the distillation column. The flow rate of the bottom stream is measured and found to be 673 kg/h, and the overhead stream is analyzed and found to contain 96.0 wt% methanol. (a) Draw and label a flowchart of the process and do the degree-of-freedom analysis. (b) Calculate the mass and mole fractions of methanol and the molar flow rates of methanol and water in the bottom product stream. (c) Suppose the bottom product stream is analyzed and the mole fraction of methanol is found to be significantly higher than the value calculated in part (b). List as many possible reasons for the discrepancy as you can think of. Include in your list possible violations of assumptions made in part (b). Two aqueous sulfuric acid solutions containing 20.0 wt% H2SO4 (SG = 1. 139) and 60.0 wt% H2SO4 (SG = 1.498) are mixed to form a 4.00 molar solution (SG = 1.213). (a) Calculate the mass fraction of sulfuric acid in the product solution. (b) Taking 100 kg of the 20% feed solution as a basis, draw and label a flowchart of this process, labeling both masses and volumes, and do the degree-of-freedom analysis. Calculate the feed ratio (liters 20% solution/liter 60% solution). (c) What feed rate of the 60% solution (L/h) would be required to produce 1250 kg/h of the product? Wet air containing 4.0 mole% water vapor is passed through a column of calcium chloride pellets. The pellets adsorb 97.0% of the water and none of the other constituents of the air. The column packing was initially dry and had a mass of 3.40 kg. Following 5.0 hours of operation, the pellets are reweighed and found to have a mass of 3.54 kg. (a) Calculate the molar flow rate (mol/h) of the feed gas and the mole fraction of water vapor in the product gas. (b) The mole fraction of water in the product gas is monitored and found to have the value calculated in part (a) for the first 10 hours of operation, but then it begins to increase. What is the most likely cause of the increase? If the process continues to run, what will the mole fraction of water in the product gas eventually be?

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