1.A butane isomerization produces 20kmole/hr of pure isobutene. A purge 3.
3.In biological systems, enzymes are used to accelerate the rates of certain
removed continuously, contains 85% n-buutane and 15% impurity (mole%).
The feed stream is n-butain containing 1% impurity. The flowrate of the purge
stream will be? Ans: 5 kmole/hr
2.A chemist attempts to prepare some very pure crystals of Borax
Na2B407*1OH20 by dissolving 100 g of Na2B407 in 200g of boiling water.
He then carefuly cools the solution until some borax crystallizes out.
Calculate the gram of crystals recovered per 100g of initial solution, If residual
solution at 55 degrees Celsius after the crystals are removed contains 12.45
Na2B407 . Ans: 51.83
biological reactions.Glucoamylase is an enzymes that aids in the conversion
of starch to glucose. Experiment shows that 1 micromol f glucoamylase in a
4%starch solution results in a production rate of glucose of 0.6
micromol/ml*min. Determine the production ratae of glucose for this system in
the units of lbmol/ft^3*day. Ans: .0539
4. 1kg of saturated stean at 100 degrees Celsius and 1.01325 bar is
contained in a rigid walled vessel.It has a volume of 1.673m^3 It cools to 98
degrees Celsius, the saturation pressure is .0943 bar: 1kg of water vapour
under these conditions has a volume of 1.789 m^3. The amount of water
vapour condense in kg is? Ans: .065
5. N2 content in a urea sample was found to be only 42%. What is the actual 7.A solution is made by dissolving 1kmole of solute in 2000 kg of solvent. The
urea content of the sample? Ans:90% molality of the solution is? Ans: 0.5

6. A lacquer plant must deliver 1000 lb of an 8% nitrocellouse solution.They 8.One mole f methane undergoes complete combustion in a stoichiometric
have a 5.5% solution in stock. How much dry nitrocelluloses must be amount f air. The reaction proceeds as CH4 + 2O2 yields CO2 + 2H20. Both
dissolved in the solution to fill the order? Ans: NOTG 12.025KG reactants and products are in gas phase. Mole fraction of water vapour in the
product gases is about? Ans: 0.19
9. 1 kg of Calcium carbide produces about .41 kg of acetylene gas on 11.In the reaction Ca + 2H2O = Ca(OH)2 + H2. What volume (c.c) of
treatment with water. How many hours of service can be burned from 1 kg of hydrogen at STP would be liberated, when 8 gm of calcium reacts with
calcium carbide in an acetylene lamp burning 35 liters of gas at NTP per excess water? Ans: 4480
hour? Ans: 10

10. 40 g each of the methane and oxygen are mixed in an empty container 12. The vapour pressure of the solvent decreased by 10 mmHg when a non
maintained at 40 degrees Celsius. The fraction of the total pressure exerted volatile solute was added to the solvent.The mole fraction of the solute in the
by oxygen is? Ans:1/3 solution is 0.2.What should be the mole fraction of the solvent, if decrease in
vapor pressure of the solvent is required to be 20 mmHg? Ans: 0.6
13.An aqueous solution of 2.45% by weight of H2SO4 has an specific gravity 15. Air initially at 101.3 kPa and 40 degrees Celsius with a relative humidity
of 1.011. The composition expressed in normality is? Ans: 0.5055 of 50% is cooled at constant pressure at 30 degrees Celsius. The cooled air
has a

Ans: Higher relative Humidity

14. The molar composition of a gas is 10%H2, 10%O2, 30% CO2 and 16. In a production of a drug having a molecular weight of 192, the exit
balance H20. IF 50% H20 condenses , the final mole percent of H2 in the gas stream from the reactor flows at a rate of 10.5 l/min. The drug concentration
on a dry basis will be? Ans: 20% is 41.2% (in watae) and the specific gravity of the solution is 1.024. Calculate
the flowrate of the drug in kgmol/min. Ans: 0.023
17. Nitric acid (HNO3) that is used industrially for a variety of reactions can be
produced by the reaction of ammonia with dry air to yield nitric acid and
water. The product gas from such reactor has the ff. compositions on water
free basis: 0.8% NH3, 9.5% HNO3, 3.8% 02 and 85.9 % N2. Determine the
percent conversion of ammonia. Ans: 92.2%
18. Na2SO4*10H20 crystals area formed by cooling 100kg of 30% by weight
aqueous solution of Na2SO4. The final concentration of the solute in the
solution is 10%. The weight of crystals is ? Ans: 58.65
19.Air at temp of 20 degrees and 750 mmHg pressure has a relative humidity
of 80%. What is its percentage humidity? Vapor pressure of H20 at 20
degrees Celsius is 17.5 mmHg ?
20. 80 kg of Na2SO4 (mw 142) is present in 330 kg of an aqueous solution.
The solution is cooled such that 80 kg Na2SO4 * 10 H20 crystals separate
out. The weight fraction of Na2SO4 in the remaining solution is? Ans. 0.18
21. CaCO3 contains________ percent of Ca by weight 23. Equal masses of CH4 and H2 are mixed in an empty container. The
Ans:40 partial pressure of hydrogen in this container expressed as the fraction of
total pressure is? Ans: 8/9

24. In ternary system involving two liquid components and a solute, the ratio
of the concentration of the solute in the two phases at equilibrium is called
distribution coefficient. The distribution co efficient depends upon? Choices:
solute temp or both

22. A metal oxide is reduced by heating in a stream of hydrogen. After 25. Vapor pressure of water at 100 degrees Celsius is about_______ bar.
complete reduction, it is found that 3.15gm of oxide has yielded 1.05 gm of Ans: 1.013
metal. It may be inferred that the? Ans: equivalent weight of metal is 4
26-27. Printed circuit boards are used in the electronic industry to both
connect and hold components in place. In production, 0.03 in copper foil is
laminated to an insulating plastic board. A circuit pattern made of a
chemically resistant polymer is then printed on the board. Next, The
unwanted copper is chemically etched away by using reagents. If copper is
treated with Cu(NH3)4CL2 and NH40H, the products are water and
Cu(NH3)4CL. Once the copper is dissolved the polymer is removed by
solvents leaving the printed circuit ready for further processing. If a single
sided board 4 in by 8in is to have 75% of the copper layer removed using the
reagents , density of copper is 8.96g/cc, how many grams of NH40H is
used? Ans:232.

how many grams of Cu(NH3)4CL2 ?