Numerical Problem 1

• Coal with calorific value of 32 MJ/kg is burnt

at a rate of 1.25 kg/sec. If the sulfur content in
the coal is 1.5%. What is the rate of emission
of SO2 in Tpd/MW. Assume that 3 units of
heat energy is converted into 1 unit of
electrical energy. Sulfur content in the ash may
be assumed to be 8%.
 Numerical Problem 2
• In your township, you want the automobiles to
be tuned up for limiting the air-pollution. Find
out the optimum air-to-fuel ratio (by mass) for
a car which uses Diesel with chemical formula
C14H30.
 Numerical Problem 3
• In the township, a coal-fired power plant which
will use high-sulfur coal which produces flue
gas containing SO2 at a concentration of 0.07
ppm. Ambient air temperature is 298 K. The
Indian air quality standard for the emission of
SO2 from industry is 80 µg/m3. Determine
whether the emission from the power plant
shall be within the permissible limit.
 Numerical Problem 4
• The power plant in the township shall be of 100 MW
capacity. It converts one-third of the heat energy to
electrical energy. The rest of the heat energy appears
as waste heat. Flue gas takes away 20% of waste heat
and the rest of the waste heat is taken away by the
cooling water which is supplied from the river. The
pollution control authority restricts the rise of cooling
water temperature to 10 oC from its baseline value of
25 oC. River flows at a rate of 50 m3/s. What should
be the minimum flow rate of cooling water used in
the plant? Take the specific heat capacity of water to
be equal to 4l80 J/(kg.oC).
 Numerical Problem 5
A power plant of 200 MW capacity is using imported coal having
heating value of 28.85 MJ/kg. The sulphur and mercury content of
the coal is 2.46% and 23.12 µg/kg respectively. Determine the
amount of SO2 and mercury emitted in air by this plant annually
assuming that 5.85% sulphur and 2.53% mercury remain in the
ash. The conversion efficiency of the plant is 38.51% and the plant
runs for 300 days in a year.
 
 
Numerical Problem 6
A new coal fired power plant has been built using sulphur emission
control system that is 70.5% efficient. If all of the sulphur oxidizes
to SO2 and the emissions of SO2 are limited to 0.3 kg per million
BTU of heat into the power plant, what maximum percent sulphur
content can the fuel have? 1 BTU=1055 J.
(a) If 33.33 MJ/kg coal is burnt ?
(b) If 19.80 MJ/kg coal is burnt ?
 
 
 Numerical Problem 7
A police man is on duty at a traffic intersection where the CO
concentration is 45 ppm. Calculate the % COHb of the police man
if he remains on duty for 2 hours continuously.

Numerical Problem 8
The OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
standard for worker exposure to 8 hour of CO is 50 ppm. What
percentage of COHb would result from this exposure?

Numerical Problem 9
Convert the following air quality standards established by the CPCB,
New Delhi from ppm to mg/m3 at 25 oC and 1 atm or vice verca.

a.CO2=5000 ppm
b.Formaldehyde (HCHO)=3.6 mg/m3
c.Nitric oxide(NO)=25 ppm
 Numerical Problem 9
Calculate 1 ppm SO2 concentration in microgram/m3 at 0oC & 1.2
atm pressure.

Numerical Problem 10
Volumetric flow rate of flue gas coming out of a 500 MW coal power plant
is 2.5 m3/s. To meet the national emission standards, it is estimated that
98.5% of the total particulate matter is required to be removed by
electrostatic precipitator. Calculate the total area of the collection plates
of the electrostatic precipitator if the average drift velocity of the particles
  is 0.12 m/s.

Numerical Problem 11

A droplet of water is of 2.5 micron size. Determine its settling velocity in

air at ambient temperature and pressure conditions. The viscosity of air
may be taken as 0.01725 g/m s.
 Numerical Problem 12
It has been reported that wind velocity at 10 height is 2.6 m/s. Calculate the wind
velocity at the top of a building where an TV antenna has been fixed at a height of
150 m from the ground. The p=0.4 value may be taken corresponding to the stability
class on that day.
Numerical Problem 13 
A power plant has a 100 m stack with inside radius of 1 m at top. The flue gases
leave the stack with an exit velocity of 10 m/s at a temperature of 120 oC. Ambient
temperature is 16 oC, winds at the stack height are estimated to be 5 m/s and
surface wind speed is 3 m/s and it is a cloudy summer day in Vancouver.
Determine the effective stack height of this stack .

Numerical Problem 14
A coal power plant in a rural area is emitting 100 g/s of SO 2 in the month of June
2010 when the incoming solar radiation is strong. Do you think that the villagers of
a nearby area are exposed to SO2 concentration higher than the national air
quality standard permits? The village is approximately 1.0 km downwind and 0.2
km off the centreline from the power plant. The wind speed at the surface (at 10
m) is 1.5 m/s and the terrain is plain in nature. The effective stack of the power
plant is of 140 m. he 24-hTour average national air quality standard for rural area
is 80 μg/m3. (Assume P = 0.07, Sy = 210 m, and Sz = 450 m for the given
conditions and coordinates).