ASSIGNMENT 2 SEM JAN 2015 CHEMICAL PROCESS PRINCIPLES (CLB 10904)

CHEMICAL PROCESS PRINCIPLES (CLB 10904)

ASSIGNMENT 2
(DATELINE: Monday, 6th April 2015 before 5 PM)

Note to students:

1. This is grouping assignment (MAXIMUM 4 members in a group).

2. Submission must be handwritten with complete solution
3. Submit to Mr. Azahari (L01), Dr. Kelly (L02 and L03) and Madam Nazerah (L04 and L05).
4. Write the name and ID of all group members in the submission.

Question 1
A double effect evaporator in a plant is used to remove water of an aqueous salt (NaCl and H 2O) solution from
50 wt% water to 5 wt% water as shown in the Diagram 1 below. The evaporator unit is designed to process
6000.0 metric ton of the aqueous salt fresh feed solution yearly. Assume the plant is operating 250 days yearly
and 10 hours daily. After exiting the second evaporator, the aqueous salt solution entered a splitter, where half
of the solution was recycled to the stream and the remainder removed from the system.

Recycle

Evaporator Evaporator Splitter

50 wt% H2O 1 70 wt% NaCl 2

H2O H2O

5 wt% H2O

i. Redraw and label Diagram 1 completely with the known and unknown variables.

F2F4
(kg/hr) (3 marks)
F3 (kg/hr)
(kg/hr)
X kg
0.95
0.7 2kg NaCl/kg
NaCl/kg ii. total Calculate the feed rate (in kg/hr) of the aqueous salt fresh feed solution.
total
total
1-X
0.05 2 kg
0.3 kg kg H2O/kg
H2O/kg total (3 marks)
H2O/kgtotaltotal

iii. Determine the total mass flow rate (in kg/hr) of the aqueous salt solution exiting the evaporator number
2.
(5 marks)

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iv. Determine the amount of water (in kg/hr) removed from the aqueous salt solution in Evaporator 1 and
Evaporator 2
(12 marks)
v. Determine the average molecular weight of the aqueous salt solution removed from the system
(2 marks)

Question 2
2500 mol/hr of the fuel gas, propane underwent incomplete combustion with 75% excess air (separate inlet
stream) in a combustion chamber (Assume air contains 79 mol% N2 and 21 mol% O2). 60% of the fuel gas was
converted in the reaction.

2C 3H 8 9O 2 4CO 2 2CO 8H 2O

i. Draw and label a flowchart of the process.

(3 marks)
ii. Determine the molar flow rate of the air that entered the combustion chamber.
(4 marks)

iii. Determine the molar composition (mol%) of the outlet stream on a dry basis using extent of reaction
method.
(18 marks)