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Cpe 420 Tutorial 2
Cpe 420 Tutorial 2
1) The flow rate of water through a pipe is reported as 20 cubic feet per minute. Taking density of water
as 1 g/cm3, calculate the mass flow rate in kg/s.
3) A sulfuric acid solution (H2SO4) with a concentration of 0.50 Molar flows into a reactor at a rate of
1.25 m3/min. The specific gravity of the solution is 1.03 (relative to water at 4C). Calculate the
following:
i. The total mass flow rate of Solution.
ii. The mass concentration of H2SO4 in the stream in kg/m3.
iii. The mass flow rate of H2SO4 in kg/ s.
iv. The mass fraction of H2SO4 in kg/kg.
v. The molar flow rate of H2SO4 in gmol/s.
Ans: (i) 21.46 kg/s (ii) 49 kg/m3 (iii) 1.021 kg/s (iv) 0.048 kg/kg (v) 10.42 gmol/s
4) A mixture of a liquid is 10.0 mol% ethyl alcohol (C2H5OH), 75.0 mol% ethyl acetate (C4H8O2) and
15.0 mol% acetic acid (CH3COOH). Calculate :
i. The average molecular weight of the mixture.
ii. The mass fractions of each component.
iii. The moles of a sample (in lb-moles) containing 25.0 kmol of ethyl acetate.
Ans: (i) 79.6 g/gmol (ii) 0.0578 g EA/g, 0.8291 g EC/g, 0.1131 g AA/g (iii) 73.49 lb-moles
5) A combustible gaseous mixture is contained in a tank at pressure 90 atm and temperature of 110C.
The mixture has the following molar composition as shown in Table 1. If the number of moles for
this gaseous mixture is 250 mol, calculate:
Ans: (i) 0.2540 g CH4 /g, 0.6667 g C2H4/g, 0.0793g H2/g (ii) 12.6 g/mol (iii) O.O8734m3
6) Explain briefly and give an example for each of the following processes:
i. Batch process.
ii. Continuous process.
iii. Transient process.
iv. Steady state process.
7) A liquid stream containing 50 mol% of benzene and the balance toluene is fed to a continuous single-
stage evaporator at a rate of 1320 mol/s. In this process, 48% of benzene in the feed is evaporated.
The liquid and vapor streams leaving the evaporator containing both toluene and benzene and the
liquid stream contain 42.5 mol% of benzene.
9) A process for the separation of a propelyne-propane mixture to produce 99 mol% propylene and 95
mol% propane is shown in the figure below. A liquid mixture containing 50 mole% propylene and 50
mole% propane is fed to a distillation column. The mixture of overhead product leaving the DC-1 is
fed to the column DC-2. The overhead product from the second column contains 97% of propylene in
the feed to this column. The bottom product come out from DC-2 is consisting of pure propylene and
recycles back to DC-1.
ii. Assuming basis of calculation is 100 mol/h mixture fed to the DC-1, calculate the amount of
propylene recycles to DC-1.
Ans: 1.4658 mol
Ans: (iii) 51.77 mol/h D (0.783 mol D/mol) 948.23 mol/h F, 768.23 mol/h E (0.829 mol E/mol)