UNIVERSIT! MALAYA UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA \UJIAN IJAZAH SARJANA MUDA KEJURUTE RAAN TEST FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING SES! AKADEMIK 2017/2018 SEMESTER | ACADEMIC SESSION 2017/2018 SEMESTER | KKEK3153 ‘Simuiasi Proses Kimia ‘Simulation of Chemical Processes Nov 2017 Masa : 1 jam 30 minit Nov 2017 Time : 1 hours 30 minutes ARAHAN KEPADA CALON: INSTRUCTION TO CANDIDATES: Jawab SEMUA soalan. Answer ALL questions. (Kertas soalan ini mengandungi 1 soalan dalam 4 halaman i yang dicetak) (This queston paper consists of 1 question on 4 printed pager) dKXEX2162 ‘Suatu suapan mengandungi campuran 45 w1% asiton dan 55 wt% air mengalir pada 900 Koh don Scempurten ‘dengan pelarut tulen yang mengalir pada 600 kg/h kedalam MIXER? pada 100°C dan 8 bar. Seterusnya, aliran campuran, MIXED1, disejukkan kepada 30°C dengan menggunakan COOLER? dan seterusnya disuap kepada FLASH, yang beroperasi pada 30°C dan 1 bar. Langkah kedua proses menggunakan produk cecair (BOT1) dari FLASH, yang kemudiannya dicampurkan dengan aliran kedua pelarut tulen dengan suhu dan tekanan, 30°C dan 1 bar, masing-masing. Akhimya, aliran MIXED2 disuap ke FLASH? untuk menyingkirkan 90 wt% air. Suhu dan tekanan operasi tidak berubah. A feed containing a mixture of 45 wi% aman. 55 wi% wuitamis flowing at 900 kg/h and mixed with fresh solvent flowing at 600 kg/h into MIXER? at 100°C and 8 bar. Next, the mixed streams. MIXED! are cooled to 30°C using COOLER? and subsequently fed to FLASH, which operates at 30°C and 1 bar. The second stage of the process uses the quid product (BOT?) from FLASH1, which is then mixed with a second fresh solvent stream and pressure of 30°C ‘and 1 bar, respectively. Finally, MIXED? stream is then fed to FLASH? to remove 90 wt% of water. The operational temperature and pressure remains unchanged. Terdapat dua jenis pelarut untuk pertimbangan anda: There are two different solvents for your consideration: | solv 2 eK 116 488 | ta t— F%, NO kg/m aa | &. No kg — ™ 390 | 1949.27 po targa anggaran dari pasaran Petrokimia India Okt 2017 Estimated prices trom, ‘market Oct 2017 ‘Suhu didih asiton (hn 562°C p on Boling powt of acetoneKXEX2162 MIBK 4) Laksanakan simulasi yang bersesuaian untuk proses bagi menentukan diantara dua pelarut yang akan memberikan kos paling rendah untuk menyingkirkan sekurang-kurangnya 90 0% air. Perform suitable simulations of the process to determine which of the two solvents would provide the le sxpensive cost for removal of at least 90 wt% water. f0oKy _ aati A Rg wte water 600kg/h 100 wt. Salven | bar [Od wt 7. soivert wet TO.) water [10 markah/marks] 314KXEX2162 b) Langkah seterusnya adalah menggunakan turas penyulingan untuk mengasingkan asiton dan pelarut yang telah anda pilih dalam a). Laksanakan simulasi berikutnya untuk mendapatkan asiton dengan sekurang-kurangnya 90 wt% ketulenan. The next step would be using a distillation tower to separate acetone and solvent you have selected in a). Perform subsequent simulation to recover acetone with at least 90 wt% purity. a Number of Setual stage = 9.132 “Feat stage ©5335 [10 markah/marks] Nota: Note: |. Pastikan anda menggunakan template yang betul. Make sure you use the correct template. 11. Aktifkan laporan untuk aliran jisim dan pecahan jisim. ‘Activate report for MasSH6W and masSTECNOR Il, Gunakan model termodinamik UNIQUAC sahaja. Use @GIM@Ehermodynamic model only. IV. Gunakan model HEATER untuk COOLER. Use HEATER model for COOLER. V. Gunakan model DSTWU untuk mendapatkan nombor dulang sebenar dam dulang suapan untuk digunakan dalam model RADFRAC. Use DSTWU model to get number of actual stages and feed stage to be used in RADFRAC model. VI. Gunakan nisbah refluks 1.5 dan nisbah sulingan kepada suapan 0.99 dalam model RADFRA\ Use RataraTSTORANS! «1 REMGIMetenomamrationsaaan the RADFRAC model vil. Gunakan Design Spec. Tetapkan Tolerance kepada 0.001 dalam Design Spec Use Design Spec. Set Malenamasst@i@x00" in Design Spec TAMAT. END 4l6KKEK 3157 UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA SEMESTER TEST FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING ACADEMIC SESSION: 2016/2017 SEMESTER: 2 KKEK 3157: Process Synthesis April 2017 Marks: 25 Time :1 hour 30 minutes a INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: 1. This test paper contains TWO(2) questions. 2. Answer all questions. QUESTION 1 Feed 2 230°C 140°C Reactor 2 Reactor I AW = —31 SMW] Product | 40°C Figure 2a. Process FlowsheetLL A— KKEK 3157 a) Extract information from Process Flowsheet showed in Figure 2a. There should be four streams needed to be cooled or heated: Stream Type Inlet T (°C) | Outlet T(°C) | AH (MW) a — Wot “Loo w =30 — a r _ Hot 380 40 31.5, —_ 1 | Cold Wo 330 27 | Fea! | Gid 20 180 3h Inlet T: Supply temperature Outlet T: Target temperature Please create the table in Excel and submit the answer Excel file to Spectrum. (5 Marks) >) Figure 2b. Summary of stream information Stream Inlet T(°c) | Outlet T (°c) | MCp (Wisc) Stream 1 170 60 3000 Stream 2 150 30 1500 Stream 3 135 20 2000 Stream4 | 140 80 4000 Design a network of heat exchangers for maximum energy recovery (MER) from the summary of stream information shown in Figure 2b, * Please use ATmin = 10°C. Use Aspen Energy Analyzer to solve this problem. Submit the AEA file to Spectrum. Hints: Total number of additional heat exchangers required to achieve MER is 7 including one hot utility and one cold utility. 79KKEK 3157 (12 Marks) QUESTION 2 Diethyi ether (DEE) with the formula (C2Hs)20 is an organic compound that is Nai used in the production of cellulose acetate and other cellulose-based Polymers as a solvent. It is colourless, highly volatile and flammable liquid with boiling point of 34.5°C. Moreover, it also has a powerful, characteristic odour, spicy and sweetish taste. Most diethyl ether is produce as a by-product of the vapour phase hydration of ethylene to make ethanol. There are four primary options of the route in the production of diethyl ether. 1. Hydration of ethylene V GH, HO, CyHe 0 t GMO 3C2H4PH20 => = (C2Hs)20 + CoHsOH Ethylene DEE Ethanol 2. Dehydration of ethanol ¥ CeO He 2. C2HsOH > (C2Hs)20 + H20 Ethanol DEE 3. Williamson ether synthesis NaCzHsO + C2HsCl > (C2Hs)20 + NaCl Sodium ethoxide Chloroethane DEE Sodium Chloride 4. Acid ether synthesis CHaCHsOHe > — (CoHs)20 + H20 yt 2GH7O > Sythe # HO Note: Please check whether the equations are balanced. Determine which of the four reactions would provide the most gross profits. Cost of each material is given in Table 2. CG Hay 0,KKEK 2657 Table 2. Physical properties and cost of materisis Diethyl ether 8 Chemical Molecular | Cost Weight Rikg _— Ethylene fA 28.05 | 1.85 { — a 74.12 | 15.50 Ethanol ¢ 46.07 1.55 Sodium ethoxide 68.05 | 2.80 Chloroethane E i 64.51 | 2.50 Sodium Chloride F 58.44 1.20 | ___| Purified water G 18.02 0.50 CHsCHOH. H 46 3.75 | Please use Excel to solve this problem. Submit the answer Excel file to Spectrum vse OP ofiuk te” (8 Marks) si WTKKEKaa53 Test2-1 22 December 2017 b. Although voM purity in VCM stream is high (around 97 mole %), a large amount of EDC remaining in FLIBOT stream (around 58 mole %). Therefore, FLIBOT stream is recycled back to reactor CRACK to improve the amount of VCM recovered. Fig. 2 shows VCM process flowsheet with added recycle stream. ‘What is the purity of VCM at VCM stream (around 96 mole%)? (4 marks} Which flowsheet will you recommend? Please justify your recommendation. Assume price is the same for VCM purity > 95 mole %. (2 marks} Fig.2 VM process flowsheet with added recycle stream Guidance Notes: C Use NRTLRS, property package Choose'HCl onlyfor both columns feed basis Set VCM-COL Design Spec fo/97 mole % VCM for both questions. Use Design Spec tolerance of 0,001. Under Convergence -> Conv Options -> Methods menu, increase Maximum flowsheet evaluations from 30 to 200. Vaene 2\Page22 December 2017 Vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) is produced using a high pressure and temperature cracking process of 1,2-Dichloroethane (EDC) according to the following reaction: CICH2CH2Cl -> CH2=CHCI + HCI EDC vcM a Feed containing sre DcA435%C dns et bar flows into the reactor at 50,000 kg/F The cracking of EDC ‘occurs at$50°C and3.5 MPa in CRACK reactor. EDC conversion in the reactor is maintained\at 63%) Hot gases from the reactor are sub-cooled to 15°C before distillation. The COOLER)experienced 20,5 MPa) pressure drop. Two distillation columns are required for the purification of the VCM product. In the first column, almost pure HCl is removed overhead (HCLTOP). In the second column, amore concentrated VCM product is produced. VCM purity is higher in VCMTOP stream compare to VCMBOT stream. ‘The HL-COL column is having 15 stages and operates at 2.5 MPa with reflux ratio > of and distillate to feed ratio of 0.5, Feed enters above stage 8. The VCM-COL column is having 10 stages and operates at 2.5, MPa with reflux ratio of 1.2 and distillate to feed ratio of 0.99. Feed enters above stage 6. FLASH1 and FLASH2 operate at 5°C and 0.1 MPa. a. Perform a simulation to achieve VCM purity of about 97 mole % at VCMTOP stream. Fig 1 shows the CM process flowsheet. an ~ J ig. 1. VCM process flowsheet =} [4 marks] l|PageGroup 1 Test 1-26 November 2015 KKEK3153 A feed containing a mixture of 35 wt% acetone, 60 wt% water and 5 wt% solvent is flowing at 900 kg/h and mixed with fresh solvent flowing at 600 kg/h into MIXER1 at 120°C and 10 bar. Next, the mixed streams, MIXED] are cooled to 35°C using COOLER! and subsequently fed to FLASH1, which operates at 35°C and 1 bar. The second stage of the process uses the liquid product (BOT1) from FLASH1, which is then mixed with a second fresh solvent stream, SOLV2 having temperature and pressure of 35°C and 1 bar, respectively. Finally, the MIXED2 stream is then fed to FLASH2 to remove 90 wt% of water. The vessel operates at 35°C and 1 bar. You have two different solvents for your consideration: Benzene 80 10.50 | ] [xylene 139 ; 11.90 | “Boling point of acetone is SEFC @. Perform suitable simulations of the process to determine which of the solvents would provide the least expensive hourly cost for removal of at least 90 wt% water. [10 marks} b. The next step would be using a distillation tower to separate acetone and solvent selected in a. Perform suitable simulation to recover acetone with at least 90 wt% purity. [10 marks] a. If the hourly cost of distillation acetone from benzene is one and half times the hourly cost of benzene used to remove water and the hourly cost of distillation acetone from m-Xylene is equal the hourly cost of m- Xylene used to remove water, would the solvent of choice remain the same? If not, which solvent would you choose instead? [5 marks] Note: © Use NRTL property method only. @ Use DSTWU model to get initial values to be used in RADFRAC model i.e. number of actual stages and feed stage. © Use reflux ratio of 1.5 and distillate to feed ratio 0.99 in the RADFRAC model. 1|Page SetiGroup 1 Test 1-26 November 2015 KKEK3153 2[Page Set 1