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Faculty of Science
Department of Chemistry
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Kampala, Uganda

Semester II, CHE424

CREII Assign. 1, 2016

To be submitted by 301stMarch 2016

1) A pulse input to a vessel gives the results shown in Fig. 1

(a) Are the results consistent? (Check the material balance with the experimental tracer curve.)
(b) If the results are consistent, determine the amount of tracer introduced.

Fig.1

2) A step experiment is made on a reactor. The results are shown in Fig. 2

(a) Is the material balance consistent with the tracer curve?
(b) If so, determine the vessel volume V, tmean, the F curve, and the E curve.

Fig.2
3) A liquid macro-fluid reacts according to A R as it flows through a vessel. Find the
conversion of A for the flow patterns of Figs.3 to P1l.ll and kinetics as shown.
(a)

Fig. 4
(b)

Fig.5

Flow models: The following models are handled in number 4 as given below:
(a) Compartment model (b) Dispersion model (c) Tank-in-series Model (d) Convection model

4) (a) A pulse of concentrated NaCl solution is introduced as a tracer into the fluid entering a
vessel (V = 1m3, v = 1m3/min) and the concentration of tracer is measured in the fluid leaving
the vessel. Develop a flow model to represent the vessel from the tracer output data sketched in
the Figs.
(i) ( (ii)

Fig.6

4) (b)

(i) An injected slug of tracer material flows with its carrier fluid down a long straight pipe in
dispersed plug flow. At point A in the pipe the spread of tracer is 16 m. at point B, 1 km
downstream from A, its spread is 32 m. what do you estimate its spread to be at a point C, 2 km
downstream from point A?

(ii) An oil refinery pumps products A and B successively to receiving stations up to 100 km
away through a 10- cm ID pipeline. The average properties of A and B are;  = 850 kg/m3,  =
1.7 x 10-9 m2/s, the fluid flows ar u = 20 cm/s and there are no reserviors, holding tanks or pipe
loops in the line; just a few bends. Estimate the 16% - 84% contaminated width 100 km
downstream.

4) (c) Fit the following tank-in-series model to the following mixing cup output data to a pulse
input.

4) (d) Aqueous A (CA0 = 50 mol/m3) with physical properties close to water ( = 1000 kg/m3),
reacts by a second order reaction (k = 10-3 m3/mol – s) as it flows at 10 mm/s
through a tubular reactor (d = 10 mm, L = 20 m). Find the conversion of reactant A from this
reactor.