KUMASI TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

HND Chemical Engineering
Mid-Semester Examination - 2019/2020
Second Year
CHE 206 Stagewise Operations II
Date: July 2019 Time: 48 hours

Date/time of commencement: Tuesday 04 July 2020; 10 a.m

Date/time of submission: Wednesday 06 July, 2020; 10 a.m
Mode of submission: vclass1
Note: You are to work independently. Copying of friends works shall no go unpunished.

A saturated liquid feed at boiling point containing 42 mol% heptane and 58mol% ethylbenzene
is fed to a fractionation unit at 200 kgmol/hr at 101.32 kPa absolute. The distillate produced
contained 97 mol% heptane and the bottoms contained 1.1 mol% heptane.
Determine:
a. The distillate and bottoms rate. [20 marks]
b. The value of q for the feed, and the slope of the q-line. [10 marks]
c. If the actual reflux ratio is 2.5, determine graphically the theoretical number of plates
required.
[40 marks]
d. ii) What is the feed tray number? [5 marks]
e. If the feed were to be 50% liquid while all conditions remained the same, what would
be the number of theoretical stages? [25 marks]

Equilibrium data for Heptane

x y
0.00 0.00
0.05 0.10
0.10 0.20
0.20 0.35
0.33 0.53
0.40 0.60
0.55 0.70
0.70 0.85
0.85 0.95
1.00 1.00

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