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Chemical Engineering Tutorial #7

This document contains two chemistry problems involving distillation column and evaporator processes. Problem 1 involves a liquid mixture fed to a distillation column to separate ethanol and solute into top and bottom products. It asks to draw a process flowchart, perform a degree of freedom analysis, and calculate the solute fraction in the bottom stream and fraction of ethanol leaving in the bottom stream. Problem 2 gives information about wet sugar fed to an evaporator that removes 85% of the water. It asks to calculate the water fraction and vaporization ratio, and determine additional water removal and annual revenue if 1000 tons/day of sugar is dried and sold.

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Chemical Engineering Tutorial #7

This document contains two chemistry problems involving distillation column and evaporator processes. Problem 1 involves a liquid mixture fed to a distillation column to separate ethanol and solute into top and bottom products. It asks to draw a process flowchart, perform a degree of freedom analysis, and calculate the solute fraction in the bottom stream and fraction of ethanol leaving in the bottom stream. Problem 2 gives information about wet sugar fed to an evaporator that removes 85% of the water. It asks to calculate the water fraction and vaporization ratio, and determine additional water removal and annual revenue if 1000 tons/day of sugar is dried and sold.

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King Saud University

ChE 201
College of Engineering
Chemical Engineering Principles 1
Chemical Engineering Department
Tutorial #7
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Q1: A liquid mixture contains 60.0 wt% ethanol (E), 5.0 wt% of dissolved solute (S), and the
balance water. A stream of this mixture is fed to a continuous distillation column operating at
steady state. Product streams emerge at the top and bottom of the column. The column design
calls for the product streams to have equal mass flow rates and for the top stream to contain
90.0 wt% ethanol and no S.
(a) Assume a basis of calculation, draw and fully label a process flowchart, do the degree of
freedom analysis, and verify that all unknown stream flows and compositions can be
calculated.
(b) Calculate (i) the mass fraction of S in the bottom stream and (ii) the fraction of the
ethanol in the feed that leaves in the bottom product stream (i.e., kg E in bottom
stream/kg E in feed) if the process operates as designed.

Q2: Wet sugar that contains one fifth water by mass is conveyed through an evaporator in which
85.0% of the entering water is vaporized.
(a) Taking a basis of 100 kg feed, calculate (i) xw, the mass fraction of water in the wet
sugar leaving the evaporator, and (ii) the ratio (kg H2O vaporized/kg wet sugar
leaving the evaporator).
(b) If 1000 tons/day of wet sugar is fed to the evaporator, how much additional water
must be removed from the outlet sugar to dry it completely, and what annual revenue
can be expected if dry sugar sells for $0.15/lbm?

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