INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHARAGPUR

Date: 19.2.2013. FN/AN; Time: 2 hours Full Marks 50 No. of Students: 85; Deptt: Chemical Engineering; Mid Spring Semester Examination Sub No: CH62008; Sub. Name: Novel Separation Processes 4th Year B. Tech/M.Tech/PhD Instructions: Closed notes and book. Clearly state any assumed data 1. Consider reverse osmosis of salt solution at a concentration of 11 kg/m3, in a thin channel oflength 4 m and equivalent diameterof2 mm. The membrane permeability is 1x10- 12 m3/(N-s). The real retention is 0.98. M = 4000 kPa and Uo=1.0 m/s. The osmotic pressure of salt is n(pa)=85000c (cis in kg/m3) and salt diffusivity is 1.5x10-9 m2/s. Find the permeate flux and concentration assuming a film theory? Use appropriate Sherwood number relation for estimating mass transfer coefficient. Take properties like density, viscosity of solution as those of water. (15) 2. Consider filtration of 10 kg/m3 concentration of a protein in gel layer controlled ultrafiltration domain with gel concentration of300 kg/m3. Filtration occurs in a bunch ofhollow fibers of inner diameter 400 micron and length 30 em. Assume laminar flow inside each tube. To have a production 700 liters per day how many hollow fibers are required? Protein diffusivity is 3x10- 11 m2/s. (20)

3. In a gel layer controlling cross flow ultrafiltration in a rectangular channel (of length L and equivalent diameter de), velocity field can be considered uniform at velocity u0 . Assuming, mass transfer boundary layer still growing, obtain an expression of length averaged Sherwood number and length averaged permeate flux in terms of Re, Sc and delL. Consider, gel concentration is Cg and feed concentration is Co. Use an integral method with the concentration boundary layer
c y . - = a1 + a 2 - + a 2 c0 0 0

(y)

where, a1, a2 and a3 are three constants. (15)

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