1,000 kg of a 64% NaNO3 solution in water is at a

temperature of 100C. This is sent to a crystallizer

where it is cooled to 30C. At this temperature, the
solubility of NaNO3 is 96 parts per 100 parts of water.
Calculate the amount of crystals that precipitates out
if (a) No water evaporates during cooling (b) 5% of the
original water evaporates during cooling.
 3000 kg of 10% NaNO3 solution is available. It is
desired that 95% of the salt be recovered as
crystals. This is done by cooling to 10C ( solubility
= 5lg/100 kg water) Calculate (a) weight of
crystals (b) weight of water that must be removed
from the original solution during cooling.
1. A tank holds 10,000 kg of a saturated solution of NaHCO3 at 60C.
You want to crystallize 500 kg of NaHCO3 without any accompanying
water from this solution. To what temperature must the solution be
cooled?
1MT of 30% by weight Na2CO3 in water is cooled slowly
to 20C. During cooling, 10% of the water originally
present is evaporated. The carbonate precipitating out
form crystals of NaCO310H2O. At 20C, the solubility
of anhydrous Na2CO3 is 21.5 kg/100 kg H2O. What
weight of NaCO310H2O crystallizes out?
A pan contains 6,420 g of an aqueous solution at 104C,
29.6% of which is anhydrous sodium sulfate. This is
cooled without evaporation to 20C, at which temperature,
crystals of Na2SO410H2O separate. The remaining
solution, (mother liquor) is found to contain 16.1%
anhydrous Na2SO4. What is the weight of this mother
liquor?
If 200 grams of Na2CO3 is dissolved in 400 grams of
water and the solution is cooled until 100 grams of
Na2CO310H2O crystallizes out, find (a) the
composition of the remaining solution (mother
liquor) and (b) the grams of crystals recovered per
100 grams of the initial solution.
A slurry of talc and water contains 75% by weight
talc. If 80% of the original water is removed and
600 kg of filter cake is obtained. Calculate
Original weight of the slurry
Water content of the filter cake
A slurry of 60% water is being fed to a
continuous filter press at a rate of 5000
kg/h. If the filter cake contains 25% water,
calculate the time needed to collect 15,000
liters of filtrate (use density of water).
A salt mixture is made by suspending 600 kg of salt in
1000 kg of water. The salt is soluble to the extent of 0.25
kg/kg H2O. When filtered, 0.5 kg of solution adheres to
every kg of undissolved salt. Calculate the weight of
filtrate obtained per kg of dry salt recovered on drying
the filter cake.
A saturated solution of a salt is made by agitating an excess of the
salt in water and then draining off the solution. When this is done,
a certain quantity of solution always remains adsorbed on the
undissolved salt. If 1 gram of water will dissolve 0.2 gram of a salt
and if 0.5 lb of solution will remain adsorbed on 1 gram of
undissolved salt, (a) How much solution can be drained off when
1000 grams of water is mixed with 500 grams of salt? (b) If the
remaining wet salt were thoroughly dried, how much dry salt
would be obtained?
The solubility of barium nitrate at 100C is 34g/100g water and at 0C is
5grams/100 grams water. 300 grams of a saturated solution of barium
nitrate at 100C is cooled to 0C causing precipitation of barium nitrate
crystals and then filtered to separate the crystals. If after drying the
crystals, 65 grams of crystals are obtained, how many grams of water
adhered per 100 grams of crystals?