UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS BSc, (Hons) Degree Examinations, SECOND SEMESTER, 2010/2011 SESSION YEAR V (CHEMICAL ENGINEERING). CHG 502: CHEMICAL PROCESS OPTIMIZATION. TIME ALLOWED: — 2Hours. ANSWER ANY THREE QUESTIONS, QUESTION 1 A medium-scale manufacturing firm produces phosphorus trichloride at the rate of P barrels per day and sells all that is produced. The total product cost is given by, C= to{s0 + o1P + me) [=] Naira per barrel. (a) Determine the production schedule, P, for minimum cost per barrel. (b) If the product sells for 1,500 Naira per barrel, determine the production schedule for maximum daily profit (©) Determine the daily break-even production schedule. QUESTION 2 A two-dimensional optimization problem is constrained as follows: % 2x, 2y +(x, -2) <4 4-x- 520 (a) Establish the admissibility, or otherwise, of the following points: s- Be a= (ob a: (fh 3-8 (b) Sketch the admissible region showing each of the above four points. (©) Using the sketch in (b), or otherwise, determine an admissible displacement from each of the admissible points in (a) QUESTION 3 (@) Determine the points on the curve, x? + x7 — 2(x, + x,)=2 that are closest to and farthest from the origin, (b) Show that the rectangle of the largest area circumscribed by a circle of radius R is a square; and derive the area of square as a function of R. .QUESTION 4 From stoichiometry, kinetic and other considerations, the amount of a substance Z, produced in a batch reactor from raw materials X and Y, has been found to satisfy the relationship, % = 1S(Llxy + 13xyy — xx)? ; x= * kg of X charged into the reactor kg of ¥ chargedinto the reactor = kg of Z produced Where Raw material X costs M100 per kilogram, Raw material Y costs NSO per kilogram, Produet Z sells for 81, 000 per kilogram, One helf of the selling price of Z is due to costs other than rew material purchase. Find the ratios x,:x, and 12, that maximize the profit per kilogram of Z produced, Hu+Dett\ea afi, Only, by So QUESTION 5 A refinery has available two crude oils I and IL whose yields are as shown below: Se Volu me #6 yields Maximum allowable product rate, barrels/day CrdeT | Cridei [Petrol 70 31 6,000 [Kerosene 6 Sra oe 2,400 Fuel oil 24 60 7 12,000, Because of equipment and storage limitations, production of petrol, kerosene and Fuel oil must be limited as also shown in the above table. The profit on processing crude I is 80 Naire per barrel and the profit on processing crude IIs 60 Naira per barrel. Find the optimum daily feed rates of the two erudes to the plant,