BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY

BAHIR DAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

CHEMICHAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Mechanical unit operation test for 2nd year chemical engineering students
Name……………………………………………ID………………………….Section

1. Find the sphericity of cube with dimension 4*4*4 in mm and show all the necessary
steps? (4 points)
2. Calculate the Volume-surface mean diameter of the following material (6 points)

Size range (mm) -8+6 -6+4 -4+2 -2+1 pan

Mass of particle 15 22 40 35 45
(gm)

3. The crusher used to reduce size of the particle from 30 mm to an average size of 5 mm
needs 120 kW. If the feed rate is 10 kg/sec, then
A. Determine Rittinger’s constant (3 points)
B. If the power needed in Kiks’s law is 2/3 of Rittinger’s law, determine kiks’s constant.
(4 points)
C. If the material to be crushed is granite with wi 15.13, calculate the power needed.
(3points)
(3 Based on the following given data
Density = 100kg/m3, sphericity = 0.68

Mass, mi (kg) 8.17 65.37 220.64

D¯pi. (mm) 25 50 75

Calculate

A. Volume surface mean diameter (Ds)

B. Mass mean diameter (Dw)
C. Specific surface area of a particle (Aw)
D. Total mass of a particle