A SERIES IN MID TERM TEST OF PLANT DESIGN COURSE

COMPREHENSIVE TEST FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Date : Thursday, 23rd of October 2014
Time : 1 hour
Room : K.206

1 PHYSICS CHEMISTRY
A constant for first order reaction, namely k, for bond C-N in N,N dimethyl-nicotiamide, is
measured under several temperature using NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance). The
observation data are presented below:
T 0C
10,0
15,7
21,5
k sec -1
2,08
4,57
8,24
Determine activation energy of the reaction.

27,5
15,8

33,2
28,4

38,5
46,1

45,7
93,5

2 MASS AND ENERGY BALANCE

Air (77oC; 21%v/v oxygen and 79%v/v nitrogen) at excess 100% is used to combust methane
(260 oC). The heat is then utilized to increase temperature of water in a boiler. Assuming perfect
and complete combustion with no methane left, the flue gas leaves at 1,127 oC. If there is no heat
loss, determine the heat absorbed by water in boiler.

3 FLUID MECHANICS
A pump is used to elevate water from 5 m below center line. The water is pumped to 30 m above
the center line with flow rate around 3m3/h. A pipe, 45m in length, is used to flow the water from
pump to reservoir, with inner diameter 50mm. The flow also passes a fitting with equivalent
length 10m. Determine the head under assumption of incompressible fluid and temperature 200C)

4 PROCESS CONTROL
Determine the inverse Laplace transform of

F ( s )=

2
s +3 s +2
2

5 SEPARATION
A continue distillation is used to recover acetone from liquid waste. Feed flow (around 10,000
kg/h with minimum flow 70% of total flow) contains 10% (g/g) acetone in room temperature
(200C). It is aimed to have acetone with purity 98% (g/g) and liquid waste with acetone

concentration under 50 ppm. Practical reflux ration is achieved at 1.35 (three times minimum
reflux ratio). Using McCabe-Thiele method, theoretical stage is achieved at 14 with operating
line slope bottom is 3.9, and top is 0.75. Under assumption of flooding 85%, gas phase is
dominant, equivalent re-boiler 1 stage, column efficiency 60%, and pressure drop per plate is
21,580Pa, determine base diameter.

6 REACTOR (2ND CHEMICAL REACTION ENGINEERING)

The gas-phase reaction (A B + C) is carried out isothermally (127 C) in a 20 dm3 constantvolume & well-mixed Batch Reactor, with NAo = 20 moles. The reactor can operate properly only
if the maximum pressure of 60 atm. If the reaction is first order (k=0.865 min -1), determine the
conversion obtained at the time when the reactor explodes.