FACULTAD DE INGENIERIA Y ARQUITECTURA

DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERIA QUIMICA

PROCESOS DE SEPARACIN 2017-II

DOCENTES: BEATRIZ HELENA ARISTIZABAL ZULUAGA

ANDREA PATRICIA CUESTA MOSQUERA

TALLER PARCIAL 2 - DESTILACIN

1. Ejercicio D2 Wankat Captulo 4.

We are separating ethanol and water. All percentages are mol%. Find the q values and plot the feed
lines.
a. Feed is 60% ethanol and flashes in the column with V/F = 0.37.
b. Feed is 40% ethanol and is a two-phase mixture with liquid and vapor in equilibrium at a
temperature of 84.1C.
c. Feed is 40% ethanol and is a liquid at 20C.
d. Feed is 40% ethanol and is a vapor at 120C.
e. Feed is 50% ethanol and is a subcooled liquid. One mole of vapor must be condensed to
heat 12 moles of feed to their boiling point.
f. Feed is 20% ethanol and 70% is vaporized in a flash distillation system. The products of the
flash system are fed to distillation column. Calculate the two q values and plot the two feed
lines.

2. Ejercicio 7.14. 3ra edicin Seader. Calculation of products

A mixture of 54.5 mol% benzene in chlorobenzene at its bubble point is fed continuously to the
bottom plate of a column containing two equilibrium plates, with a partial reboiler and a total
condenser. Sufficient heat is supplied to the reboiler to give / = 0.855, and the reflux ratio L/V
in the top of the column is constant at 0.50. Under these conditions using the equilibrium data
below, what are the compositions of the expected products?

3. Ejercicio 13.11 3ra edicin Seader. Batch rectification at constant reflux ratio

One kmol of an equimolar mixture of benzene and toluene is fed to a batch still containing three
equivalent stages (including the boiler). The liquid reflux is at its bubble point, and L/D = 4. What
is the average composition and amount of product when the instantaneous product composition is
55 mol% benzene? Neglect holdup, and assume = 2.5.

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DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERIA QUIMICA
PROCESOS DE SEPARACIN 2017-II

4. Ejercicio 13.14. 3ra edicin Seader. Batch rectification at constant composition

Two thousand gallons of 70 wt% ethanol in water having a specific gravity of 0.871 is to be
separated at 1 atm in a batch rectifier operating at a constant distillate composition of 85 mol%
etanol with a constant molar vapor boilup rate to obtain a residual wastewater containing 3 wt%
ethanol. If the task is to be completed in 24 h, allowing 4 h for charging, start-up, shutdown, and
cleaning, determine: (a) the number of theoretical stages; (b) the reflux ratio when the ethanol in the
still-pot is 25 mol%; (c) the instantaneous distillate rate in lbmol/h when the concentration of
ethanol in the still-pot is 15 mol%; (d) the lbmol of distillate product; and (e) the lbmol of residual
wastewater. Vaporliquid equilibrium data are given in Exercise 7.29.