College of Engineering

DR. EMILIO B. ESPINOSA, SR. MEMORIAL

STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
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FINAL EXAMINATION
Chemical Engineering Calculations (ChE 211)
1st Semester (SY 2022 – 2023)

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Direction: Answer the following questions completely. Use calculators for calculations and write your solutions
to problems on a separate sheet of paper.

I. Multiple Choice. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which of the following does the concept of b. 400 Kg
material balance is based upon? c. 500 Kg
a. Conservation of mass d. 600 Kg
b. Conservation of energy 5. What is amount of H2O in the feed?
c. Conservation of momentum a. 400 Kg
d. Conservation of volume b. 500 Kg
2. A combustion reaction has reactants 1 mole c. 600 Kg
CxHy and 2 moles of O2 and products 1 mole d. 700 Kg
CO2 and 2 mole of H2O, what is x+y? 6. What is amount of CH3OH in the product?
a. 1 a. 30 Kg
b. 3 b. 40 Kg
c. 4 c. 50 Kg
d. 5 d. 60 Kg
7. What is amount of H2O in the product?
For Problems 3-9 a. 50 Kg
b. 60 Kg
For the given distillation column 1000 kg of c. 70 Kg
feed is given to the column and the d. 80 Kg
efficiency of the column is 10%. 8. What is amount of CH3OH in the waste?
a. 260 Kg
b. 360 Kg
c. 460 Kg
d. 560 Kg
9. What is amount of H2O in the waste?
a. 340 Kg
b. 440 Kg
c. 540 Kg
d. 640 Kg
10. Material balance equation can be applied to
a. Total mass
b. Mass of a component
c. Moles of a component
3. What is the amount of product? d. All of the above
a. 10 Kg 11. Material balances on processes involving
b. 100 Kg chemical reactions may be solved by
c. 1000 Kg applying
d. 10000 kg a. Molecular Species Balance
4. What is amount of CH3OH in the feed? b. Atomic Species Balance
a. 300 Kg c. Extent of Reaction
 d. All of the above b. False
c. Don’t know
12. The generation and consumption terms in d. None of the above
the molecular balance equation is usually 16. Refers to the type of gas analysis which
obtained from chemical stoichiometry. eliminates water as a component (dry-free
a. True basis). If water is included in the report, it is
b. False termed wet-basis analysis.
c. Don’t know a. Gas Analysis
d. None of the above b. Liquid Analysis
c. Dimensional Analysis
13. A chemical reaction is independent if it can d. Orsat Analysis
be obtained algebraically from other 17. The amount of air required for complete
chemical reactions involved in the same combustion of C, H, and S. It does not
process. depend on how much material is actually but
a. True what can be burned.
b. False a. Theoretical Air
c. Don’t know b. Excess Air
d. None of the above c. No Air
14. If two molecular species are in the same d. None of the Above
ratio to each other wherever they appear in a 18. The amount of air in excess of that required
process, then these molecular species are for complete combustion.
independent. a. Theoretical Air
a. True b. Excess Air
b. False c. No Air
c. Don’t know d. All of the above
d. None of the above 19. __________ is a physical process in which a
15. If two atomic species occur in the same ratio component of a mixture is extracted using an
wherever they appear in a process, balances immiscible solvent.
on those species will not be independent a. Evaporation
equations. b. Drying
a. True c. Extraction
d. Absorption
20. Recycle stream is defined as material that might otherwise build
up in the recycle stream
a. a term denoting a process stream that
c. a stream that skips one or more
returns material from downstream of
stages of the process and goes
a process unit back to the process
directly to another downstream stage
unit
d. None of the above
b. a stream bled off to remove an
accumulation of inert or unwanted
21. An aqueous solution with NaOH 10 g/L at the
rate of 100 L/min and an organic compound
with no NaOH at the rate 50 L/min were put
into an extraction machine and produced
aqueous solution with NaOH 1 g/L, what is
the amount of NaOH in organic compound
after extraction? 22. Determine the overhead flow rate.
a. 2 g/L a. 870 kg/h
b. 5 g/L b. 970 kg/h
c. 9 g/L c. 1070 kg/h
d. 1170 kg/h
d. 15 g/L
23. Determine the mass flow rate of benzene in
For Problems 22-24 the bottom stream.
a. 72 kg/h
A mixture containing 45% benzene (B) and b. 82 kg/h
55% toluene (T) by mass is fed to a c. 92 kg/h
distillation column. An overhead stream of d. 102 kg/h
95 wt% B is produced, and 8% of the 24. Determine the mass flow rate of toluene in
benzene fed to the column leaves in the the bottom stream.
bottom stream. The feed rate is 2000 kg/h. a. 1060 kg/h
b. 2060 kg/h
 c. 3060 kg/h 33. The maximum number of independent
d. 4060 kg/h equations that can be derived by writing
For Problems 25-27 balances on a nonreactive system equals the
number of chemical species in the input and
200 moles of SO2 and 100 moles O2 are fed output streams.
to a reactor. Only 100 moles of SO2 react according
to a. True
b. False
2SO2 +O2→2SO3 c. Don’t know
25. Find fractional conversion of SO2.
d. None of the above
a. 0.3
b. 0.5 34. It is any portion of a process that can be
c. 0.7 enclosed within a hypothetical box
d. 0.9 (boundary).
26. Find percentage conversion of SO2. a. System
a. 30%
b. Surroundings
b. 50%
c. Universe
c. 70%
d. 90% d. None of these
27. Find the fraction unreacted of SO2.
a. 0.3 For Problems 35-43
b. 0.5 Generation of methane-rich biogas is a way
c. 0.7 to avoid high waste-disposal costs, and
d. 0.9 burning it can meet up to 60% of the
28. For non-reactive systems, in addition to operating costs for such waste-to-energy
input and output of materials, generation and plants. Consider the complete combustion of
consumption terms should be considered in 16.0 kg of methane (CH4) in biogas with 300
the general mole balance equation. kg of air.
a. True
b. False
c. Don’t know
d. None of the above
29. Theory of proportions in which chemical
compounds react is called 35. Determine the composition of CO2 in the flue
a. stoichiometric equation
gas.
b. stoichiometry
a. 8.18 kmol
c. stoichiometric coefficients
d. None of the above b. 0.17 kmol
30. A statement of the relative number of moles c. 2 kmol
or molecules reacting to produce products is d. 1 kmol
given by a chemical equation known as 36. Determine the composition of O2 in the flue
a. stoichiometric equation gas.
b. stoichiometry a. 8.18 kmol
c. stoichiometric coefficients b. 0.17 kmol
d. None of the above c. 2 kmol
31. Numbers that precede the formulas of d. 1 kmol
chemical reactions are known as 37. Determine the composition of N2 in the flue
a. stoichiometric equation gas.
b. stoichiometry
a. 8.18 kmol
c. stoichiometric coefficients
d. None of the above b. 0.17 kmol
c. 2 kmol
32. In a batch process the feed is charged into a d. 1 kmol
vessel at the beginning of the process and 38. Determine the composition of H2O in the flue
the vessel contents are removed some time gas.
later. a. 8.18 kmol
b. 0.17 kmol
a. True c. 2 kmol
b. False d. 1 kmol
c. Don’t know 39. Determine the mole fraction of CO2.
d. None of the above a. 0.09 kmol
 b. 0.01 kmol a. 1.5
c. 0.72 kmol b. 2.5
d. 0.18 kmol c. 3.5
40. Determine the mole fraction of O2. d. 4.5
a. 0.09 kmol For Problems 47-50
b. 0.01 kmol
c. 0.72 kmol The reactions
d. 0.18 kmol
41. Determine the of mole fraction of N2.
a. 0.09 kmol
b. 0.01 kmol take place in a continuous reactor at
c. 0.72 kmol steady state. The feed contains 85.0
d. 0.18 kmol mole% ethane (C2H6) and the balance
42. Determine the of mole fraction of H2O. inerts (I). The fractional conversion of
a. 0.09 kmol ethane is 0.501, and the fractional yield of
b. 0.01 kmol ethylene is 0.471.
c. 0.72 kmol
d. 0.18 kmol
43. Determine the % excess of air.
a. 8.7%
b. 7.8%
c. 9.7%
d. 7.9% 47. Calculate the molar composition of C2H6 in
the product gas.
For Probelems 44-46
a. 10.7 mol
An aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide
b. 30.3 mol
contains 20% NaOH by mass. It is desired to
c. 26.7 mol
produce an 8% NaOH solution by diluting a
d. 28.6 mol
stream of the 20% solution with a stream of
48. Calculate the molar composition of H2 in the
pure water.
product gas.
a. 10.7 mol
b. 30.3 mol
c. 26.7 mol
d. 28.6 mol
44. Determine the feed rates of 20% solution 49. Calculate the molar composition of I in the
and diluting water needed to producec2310 product gas.
lb m/min of the 8% solution. a. 10.7 mol
a. Q1 = 150 g Q2= 250 g b. 30.3 mol
b. Q1 = 250 g Q2= 150 g c. 26.7 mol
c. Q1 = 350 g Q2= 250 g d. 28.6 mol
d. Q1 = 250 g Q2= 350 g 50. Calculate the selectivity of ethylene to
45. Calculate the ratio of (g H2O/g feed methane production.
solution) a. 7.7 mol C2H4/CH4
a. 1.5 b. 8.7 mol C2H4/CH4
b. 2.5 c. 9.7 mol C2H4/CH4
c. 3.5 d. 10.7 mol C2H4/CH4
d. 4.5
46. Calculate the ratio of (g product solution/g
feed solution).

Prepared by:

(SGD) GIAN CARLO R. MALTO

Subject Instructor

Checked and noted by:

(SGD) ARNOLD I. MALAG, Ph.D.-T.M.

Dean, CEng