Ajo Assismmet A dissolved gas is being stripped out from a dilute’solution in a packed tower using Steam. Concentration of the solute in the inlet fiquid is 0.06 (mole fraction) and that the lean solution atthe botor must not exceed 0.002. The equilibrium and the operating fines are neanly straight. The overall liquid-phase driving forces at the top and at the boitom of the column are found to be 0.00472 and 0.00102 respectively. What is the number of overall liquid-phase transfer units? 24 Gd Giiy 2 ammonia at arate of 4200 Nm* (normal cubic metre) per hour using water as the solvent. ‘The tower operates at 105.1 kPa and 303 K. The equilibrium data for NH,-water system at 303 K [Sherwood, T-K., Ind. Eng. Chem., 17(1925) 745] are given below: Partial pressure of NH, (mm He) 3 6st ke NH, per 100 ke water eee Pee eel oe (a) Calculate and plot the equilibrium data as x4 V8. pay tq VS: Ya and X, vs. Yq . Up {0 what value of pris ean the Henry's law be used to describe the equilibrium? (b) Calculate the minimum liquid rate for the absorption (the inlet water is NH,-free). A packed columa receives 10 kmol/h-m of feed 45 (8 mol solute, 92% camrier) and 30 kmolMh-m of fresh solvent, It is required (© remove 97% of the solute. The equilibrium relation for the gas-liquid system is Y=2.5044.5e",x 0.08. the solvent rate more than the minimum? from 1% (Effect of column pressure on the exient of separation)? An absorption cl be designed for reducing the concentration ofa foxic vapour in an air ess © 0.02 mole. The column will operate at 20°C and 015 bar gauge pressuse. The Scrubbing liquor flow rate is 1.3 times the minimum. The 245-tiquid equilibrium relation ul the Henry's lw constant is 10 ar. (a) How many trays are required Wo achieve this separation ifthe overall ray efficiency is 405? (b) After the column is designed, i becomes necessary to reduce the concentration of the toxic vapour in the vent ar to 0.01% in order to meet a modified pollution control regulation. fst possible {© achieve this goal by operating the column at the same temperature but at an ethanced pressure? If s0, at what pressure should the column ne operated? (p= Hyistincarsa (Packed tower caleulations)* Hydrogen sulphide has to be removed from a light Fefinery hydrocarbon stream before the gas is Subjected wo further processing. The feed {885 contains 0.035 mole fraction of HS, 99% of which has fo be removed by scrubbing with an aqueous weakly basic solution. The 1.5 m diameter absorption coluinn operates at 25°C and 101.3 kPa total pressure. The feed gas rate is 45 kmollh-m? and the concentration of the solute(HS) in the absorbent solution leaving the tower is ree liquid. The equilibrium relation is linear and is 130 kmoW/ 0.015 mote HS per mole of the H, iven by y = 1.95x and the overall gas-phase film coefficient is K, (im*(hy(Ay). Calculate (2) the rate of solvent flow. (b) the slope of the operating line in small concentration range if mole faction units ane used in the calculations. (¢) the Ving forces at the fop and at the bottorn of the tower on (i) ges phase basis umber of transfer units, and (e) the packed height. overall and (i) liquid phase basis, (4) the dren 3 (Minimum liquid rate for absorption)! packed tower is 10 be designed for the absorption of 98% of the ammonia(A) from an air-ammonia mixture containing 4% og C Are 1 3, 2017)