ANSWERS

Q1. The 2 DRDs look the same:

H(3)

L(1)

Q2.
Curves 1, 2 can be intersected twice. Curve 3 is marginal (actually goes through F). Curve 4 cannot be
intersected twice. Hence region reachable by the product is shown below (shaded). Any point outside
the shaded region cannot be on a straight line through F that intersects a residue curve twice \on different
sides of F.

Q.3
There is a high-boiling azeotrope AB and a saddle azeotrope ABC (as shown by the deflection of the
residue curves).

Q.4.
(a)

(b)If we drew a separatrix between LI and ternary azeos as shown

we would have two distillation regions sharing same low-boiling node (LI i.e. node 4) and high-boiling
node (node 7). This violates the definition of a DRD (all residue curves with same end nodes belong to
the same DRD)
Q5.
(a) 4 azeotropes
(b) all binary azeos are low-boiling (arrows point away from them)
(c) ternary is low boiling.
Q6.
Aim is to get a mixture in the quadrilateral area bounded by E and the azeotropes CE, CEW, WE. So
(a) is not feasible (line joining C to 50-50 mixture of W and E does not pass through this region),
(b) OK, and
(c) is OK.