Reg. No.

Question Paper Code : 40345

B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021.

Third Semester

Chemical Engineering

CH 8351 – PROCESS CALCULATIONS

(Common to Petrochemical Engineering/Petrochemical Technology/

Petroleum Engineering)

(Regulations 2017)

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

Answer ALL questions.

PART A — (10  2 = 20 marks)

1. Convert 26 ft3/min to m3/s.

2. State and Explain deal gas law.

3. Explain the term partial pressure and vapor pressure.

4. 2% salt water is mixed with 10% salt water solution to produce 100 kg 5% salt
water solution. Calculate 2% and 5% salt water required.

5. Explain the term limiting and excess reactant.

6. What do you mean by dew point and bubble point temperature?

7. Explain the terms specific hat and latent heat.

8. What do you mean by standard heat of reaction?

9. 3 kg moles of Carbon burnt in presence of air to produce carbon dioxide.

Calculate moles of air required.

10. Explain the term proximate analysis of Coal.

 PART B — (5  13 = 65 marks)

11. (a) (i) A natural gas has the following composition. All the figures are
given in volume% Metane-83.5%, Ethane-12.5% and Nitrogen 4%.
Calculate the composition in
(1) Composition in Mole %
(2) Composition in weight %
(3) Average Molecular weight
(4) Density at standard Condition (9)
(ii) 200 grams of oxalic acid is dissolved in 1 liter of water. Find
(1) Molarity
(2) Normality. (4)
Or

(b) A solution of sodium chloride in water contains 230 gm of NaCl per liter
at 20C. The density of the solution at this temperature is 1.148 grams
per cubic centimeter. Calculate the following.

(i) Composition in weight %

(ii) Volume percent of water
(iii) Composition in mole%
(iv) Molality
(v) Molarity
(vi) Normality and
(vii) Pounds of NaCl per pound of water. (13)

12. (a) A feed mixture containing 40% benzene, 30% toluene and 30% xylene by
weight is being separated in to three products using two distillation
columns. The overhead product from the first column contains 99.5%
benzene and 0.5% toluene. The bottom product from this column is fed to
the second column to separate in to overhead product containing 97%
toluene, 2% toluene and 1% xylene and bottom product containing 95%
xylene and 5% toluene. Calculate the percent recovery of each feed
component in its own product stream. Also determine the composition of
the stream fed to the second column
Or

(b) 150 Kg saturated solution of AgNO3 at 100°C is cooled to 20C. The

crystals are filtered out. The wet filter cake containing 80% solid crystals
and 20% saturated solution by mass is sent to drier. Calculate the
amount of water that must be removed to get a moisture free product.
Also calculate the weight of dry AgNO3 obtained. Solubility of AgNO3 at
100°C is 952 gm/100 gm of water and at 20°C is 222 gm/ 100 gm of water.

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13. (a) (i) A mixture of Nitrogen and acetone vapor contains 14.8% acetone by
volume. Calculate the relative saturation, Percentage saturation,
Molal humidity, Absolute humidity of the mixture at a temperature
of 20 C and a pressure of 745 mmHg. Vapor pressure of acetone at
20C is 184.8 mmHg. (9)

(ii) With neat sketch explain humidity Chart. (4)

Or

(b) (i) Explain the following terms :

(1) Molal Humidity

(2) Absolute Humidity

(3) Percentage Humidity

(4) Relative Humidity (8)

(ii) Atmospheric air has a relative humidity of 70% at 40°C. Vapour

pressure of water at 40°C is 48 mmHg. Find Molal Humidity and
Absolute Humidity. (5)

14. (a) (i) Calculate the heat of reaction of the following reaction :

CO2  H2  CO  H2O

The formation reactions are

CO2 : C  O2  
 CO2 ΔHf298  94.051 kcal

CO : C  1 2 O2  
 CO ΔHf298  26.416 kcal

H2O : H2  1 2 O2  
 H2O ΔHf298  57.4798 kcal . (6)

(ii) Calculate the heat of formation of CHCl3. Following equations are

available.

CHCl3  1 2 O2  H2O  
 CO2  3HCl  H  509.93 kJ

H2  1 2 O2  
 H2O  H  296 kJ

C  O2  
 CO2  H  393.78 kJ

1
2 H2  1 2 Cl 2  
 HCl  H  167.5 kJ . (7)

Or

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 (b) Calculate the heat of reaction at 873K and 1.013 bar for the following
reaction :
CO2  4H2  CH4  2H2O
Hf data at 298 K :
CO2  393.65 KJ/gm mole
H2O  241.90 KJ/gm mole
CH4  74.89 KJ/gm mole
Specific heat data Joule/gm, mole K
CO2 : 26.54  42.25  103 T  14.29  10 6 T2
H2 : 26.89  4.35  10 3 T  0.3265  10 6 T2
CH4 : 13.41  77.06  10 3 T  18.76  10 6 T2
H2O : 29.18  14.50  10 3 T  2.02  10 6 T2

15. (a) A solid fuel with composition by weight of C-78%, H2-6%, O2-98%,
N2-1.2%, ash-5% and is burnt in air. The products of combustion give an
orsat analysis CO2-12.5%, CO-0.09%, O2-5.6% and rest N2. The refuse
removed from ash pit contains 30% carbon by weight. Find the actual air
fuel ratio and % excess air.
Or
(b) The analysis of the flue gas from a combustion reaction is as follows.
CO2-10.8%, CO-4%, O2-9.2% and N2-76% by volume. The producer gas
burnt had the composition CO2-9.2%, C2H4-0.4%, CO-20.9%, H2-19.6%,
CH4-1.9% and N2-48% on volume basis. Compute (i) m3 of air used in
combustion of 1 m3 of producer gas (ii) % excess air.

PART C — (1 × 15 = 15 marks)

16. (a) One method of producing chlorobenzene is to react benzene, HCl and air
and the following reaction takes place
C6H6  HCl  1 2 O2 
 C6H5Cl  H2O
After the waste gases from such a process have been scrubbed to remove
any unreacted HCl and benzene and the entire product its composition is
N2-88.8%, O2-11.2%. Determine the number of moles of chlorobenzene
produced per mole of air fed to the reaction.
Or
(b) A spent lye sample obtained from a soap making unit is found to contain
9.6% glycerol and 10.3% salt (NaCl). It is concentrated at a rate of
4000 kg/hr in a double effect evaporator system until the final solution
contains 80% glycerol and 6% salt. Assume that 5% glycerol is lost in
entrainment. Calculate the evaporation taken place in the system and
the amount of salt crystallized in the salt box of the evaporator.

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