Seat No: ______________ Enrollment No: ____________________

PARUL UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
B.Tech. Summer 2021 - 22 Examination
Semester: 4 Date: 04/04/2022
Subject Code: 203103253 Time: 02:00 pm to 04:30 pm
Subject Name: Mass Transfer -I Total Marks: 60
Instructions:
1. All questions are compulsory.
2. Figures to the right indicate full marks.
3. Make suitable assumptions wherever necessary.
4. Start new question on new page.

Q.1 Objective Type Questions - ( Fill in the blanks, one word answer, MCQ-not more than Five in (15)
case of MCQ) (All are compulsory) (Each of one mark)
1. Unit of diffusivity is ___________________
2. Distillation is example of ______ operation.
(a) gas-liquid (b) liquid-liquid (c) gas – gas (d)gas -solid
3. Desorption means___________________
4. Schmidt Number is given as___________
5. C =
(a) P/RT (b) RT/P (c) NP/RT (d) None
6. Define mass transfer coefficient.
7. ________________ solutions can be used for the removal of hydrogen sulphide gas.
8. Azeotropes are ________________ mixtures.
9. Weeping happens in a tray tower when flow rate of gas is too___________
10. For minimum liquid to gas ratio, number of trays required for an absorption tower are _______
11. Raoult’s Law is applicable for_____________
12. Equilibrium solubility of a gas in liquid generally _______ with increase in temperature.
13. Packed Towers provide___________ liquid hold up than Tray towers.
14. In venturi scrubber____________ is dispersed in ______________
15. For design of absorbers flow rate of ___________ is fixed while flow rate of ______________
is to be chosen.

Q.2 Answer the following questions. (Attempt any three) (15)

A) What are desirable characteristics of solvent for gas absorption operation?
B) Explain film theory of Mass Transfer.
C) Derive Equation for steady state molecular diffusion in fluids.
D) Explain various types of operational problems in a Tray tower.

Q.3 A) Deduce the following relationships between overall mass transfer coefficients and individual (07)
mass transfer coefficients.
1 1 m' 1 1 1
   
K y k y kx K x m" k y k x

B) Distillation column operating at 1 atm is to be designed for separating an ethanol-water mixture. (08)
The feed is 20 mole% ethanol and the feed flow rate is 1000 kg-mole/hr of saturated liquid. A
distillate composition of 80 mole% ethanol and a bottoms composition of not more than 2 mole%
ethanol are desired. The reflux ratio is 5/3. Equilibrium data is given below. Find the following
i. Total number of equilibrium stages required
ii. Optimum feed plate location
iii. Distillate and bottoms flow rates in kg-mole/hr

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 y x
0 0
0.17 0.0190
0.3891 0.0721
0.47 0.1238
0.5445 0.2323

0.6122 0.3965
0.6841 0.5732

0.7815 0.7472
0.8943 0.8943
OR
B) A coal gas is to be freed of its light oil by scrubbing with wash oil as an absorbent and the light (08)
oil recovered by stripping the resulting solution with steam. The circumstances are as follows.
Absorber Gas in. 0.250 m3/s at 26°C, Pt = 1.07*105 N/m2, containing 2.0% by volume of light
oil vapors. The light oil will be assumed to be entirely benzene, and a 95% removal is required.
The wash oil is to enter at 26°C, containing 0.005 mole fraction benzene, and has an average
molecular weight 260. An oil circulation rate of 1.5 times the minimum is to be used. Wash oil-
benzene solutions are ideal. The temperature will be constant at 26°C. Vapor pressure of benzene
at 26°C is 13330 N/m2. Compute the oil circulation rate.

Q.4 A) Explain the difference between azeotropic and extractive distillation. (07)
OR
A) Explain the concept of equilibrium with respect to interphase mass transfer. Support your answer (07)
with the help of an example and also state the necessary conditions for equilibrium
B) How will you make a choice between tray tower and packed tower? (08)

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