CHE 425

CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY, POMONA Unit Operations I Fall 2013

Instructor: Thuan K. Nguyen Office Hour: MWF 12:00-1:00 P.M, Tuesday 8:00-10:00 AM Room: 17-2108 Phone: 869-2631 E-mail:TKNguyen@csupomona.edu, http://www.csupomona.edu/~tknguyen/ Purpose of the Course: Treatment of mass, momentum and heat transport viewed with the traditional unit operations emphasis. Multi-component and multiphase systems are considered, with some problems involving design. Prerequisite: CHE 304, CHE 313 Course Objectives: After completing this course the student will be able to ... 1. Perform single-stage and flash calculations. 2. Analyze multicomponent vapor-liquid cascades. 3. Design binary distillation columns. 4. Design multicomponent distillation columns. 5. Analyze binary and multicomponent distillation columns. 6. Understand and analyze heat exchangers. 7. Design heat exchangers. TEXT: J. D. Seader and E. J. Henley, Separation Process Principles , Wiley, 2011 REFERENCES: (A) Geankoplis, C.J., Transport Processes and Separation Process Principles, 4th edition, Prentice Hall (Optional), 2003 (B) McCabe, Smith, and Harriott, Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, McGraw Hill, 2005 GRADING: No late homework. No make-up quizzes or tests Participation in Clicker (Optional) 5% Homework (best 9 of 10 assignments) 15% Best 4 of 5 comprehensive quizzes 45%, closed books and closed notes Comprehensive Final 40%, closed books and closed notes Make-ups will be given only if the absence is due to a legitimate reason approved by the instructor and substantiated by written verification. Your course grade is based on the following absolute scale: A : 93-100%, A- : 90-93% , B+ : 87-90% , B : 83-87% , B- : 80-83% C+ : 77-80% , C : 73-77% , C- : 70-73% D+ : 67-70% , D : 60-67% , F : 0-60%

Cheating, including copying is considered a serious offense and will result in a zero for that entire assignment or test. Quiz schedule Quiz #1 Quiz #2 Quiz #3 Quiz #4 Quiz #5 Final Exam Section 01 (8:00 AM) 9:10-11:10 AM Friday Dec. 14 2013 Section 02 (9:00 AM) 9:10-11:10 AM Monday Dec. 10 2013 Student Responsibilities: It is essential for your success in this class to keep up with the required readings and assignments. If you have any questions about the readings or the class in general, ask the instructor. I am your number one resource for success in this class. Come to my office or make an appointment, and we will talk about your problem. It is better to do so before things get out of hand -- not after the fact. It is your responsibility to participate in your learning. Learning is not a spectator sport. It will take time (minimum of 12 hours per week for this course), effort, work, and involvement. You must read your assignments before class, note what you do not understand, actively seek answers to what you do not know. You should ask questions in class or during office hours or of other students, study beyond the minimum text assignments by searching course references. You must apply what you learn to solve homework problems before the due date and ask for help when you need it. You should study on a regular basis and not cram for tests, participate in class by being actively involved in dialogue with your classmates and instructor, think about what you are learning, and apply what you have learned to solve other related problems. Arriving late, leaving early, chatting with your neighbors, doing your other homework, or having beepers and cellular phones turned on during class time are behaviors unacceptable in this class. These behaviors are extremely disrespectful to your fellow students and your professor. It is ultimately you who is responsible for you success in this class, not the instructor, not your fellow students. WEEK 1 2 3 4 TOPICS Fundamentals of Mass Transfer Convective Mass Transfer Text READING Chap. 3 Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Oct 12 Oct 26 Nov 9 Nov 23 Dec 7

Phase Equilibrium Calculation Chap. 4 Single-Stage Equilibrium Contact for Vapor-Liquid System Distillation with Reflux McCabe-Thiele Method Enthalpy Concentration Diagram Chap. 7 Chap. 7

5 6 7 8 9 10

Multicomponent Distillation (Approximate Methods) Equilibrium-Based Methods for Distillation Rate-Based Models for Distillation Heat Exchangers The Effectiveness-NTU method Absorption and Stripping

Chap. 9 Chap. 10 Chap. 12 Chap. 7 (Notes) Chap. 7 (Notes) Chap. 6

Instruction for Homework Homework must be turned in prior to the start of class on the day that it is due. No late homework will be accepted. Not all of the assigned problems will be graded, but you will not know in advance which will be graded, so it is best to do them all. An engineer's work should be neat, well organized, and easy to follow. You are expected to follow this standard format for completing chemical engineering problems. Points may be deducted for work that does not adhere to this format. An example of homework format is given below: ______________________________________________________________________________ CHE425 Problem set #1 NGUYEN, THUAN 1/1 1. A vapor at the dew point and 200 kPa containing a mole fraction of 0.40 benzene (1) and 0.60 toluene (2) and 100 kmol total is brought into contact with 110 kmol of a liquid at the boiling point containing a mole fraction of 0.30 benzene and 0.70 toluene. The two streams are contacted in a single stage, and the outlet streams leave in equilibrium with each other. Assume constant molar overflow, calculate the amounts and compositions of the exit streams. Data: Vapor pressure, Psat, data: ln Psat = A B/(T + C), where Psat is in kPa and T is in K. Compound Benzene (1) Toluene (2) A 14.1603 14.2515 B 2948.78 3242.38 C 44.5633 47.1806 Solution x0 = 0.3, L0 = 110 kmol, x and y are mole fraction of benzene in the liquid and vapor phase, respectively.

L0

V1

Equilibrium stage

L1

V2

y2 = 0.4, V2 = 100 kmol

For CMO, L1 = L0 = 110 kmol, V2 = V1 = 100 kmol. Making a balance on benzene gives L0x0 + V2y2 = L1x1 + V1y1 110(0.30) + 100(0.40) = 110x1 + 100y1 11x1 + 10y1 = 7.3 y1 = 0.73 1.1x1 Since the two streams V1 and L1 are in equilibrium, we have sat y1 P = 1 200y1 = x1exp(14.1603 2948.78/(T 44.5633)) x1 200
1 y1 P2sat = 200(1 y1) = (1 x1)exp(14.2515 3242.38/(T 47.1806)) 1 x1 200

(E-1)

(E-2)

(E-3)

The three equations (E-1,2,3) can be solved for T, x1, and y1 either by graphical or numerical method. How you get your answer is very important in engineering, therefore show all of your work on assignments, quizzes, and exams. Mark your final answer clearly by drawing a box around it, and be sure to include the units! Except for the questions that require you to fill in the blank, no credit will be given for final answers that do not show the work involved. Staple all pages of an assignment together in the upper left corner. Six levels of learning (Captrends, September 1985): - Recall: What you must remember. - Comprehension: What you must restate in other words. - Application: What information is to be used to solve the problem. - Analysis: What is broken down into what parts. - Synthesis: What two pieces of information are to be combined. - Evaluation: What you are to express an opinion about. Characteristics of Effective/Ineffective Problem Solvers (Wankat, P.C. et al, Teaching Engineering, McGraw-Hill, 1993) Effective Ineffective Believe the problem can be solved. Reread the problem several time. Give up easily. Lie back and hope a solution will

Characteristic Attitude: Actions:

Re-describe the problem. Ask themselves questions. Create a mental picture. Draw sketches, write equations. Dont jump to conclusions. Accuracy: Check and recheck

occur Unable to re-describe the problem.

Jump to conclusions. Do not check Dont break the problem apart. Dont know where to start Fail to identify key concepts Guess. Quit. Do not do so Use no special format.

Solution Procedures: Break the problem into sub-problems. Start at a point they first understand. Use a few key fundamental concepts as building blocks. Use heuristics. Persevere when stuck. Use quantitative formulas, descriptions Keep track of progress