Assignment No. 4: Ch.E.

201 Fluid Dynamics

B.Sc. Chemical Engineering (session 2018) Due Date: 6-March-2020
Solve all the questions. (As a part of assessment of CLO2)
Q1
A volcano has erupted, spewing stones, steam, and ash several thousand meters into the
atmosphere. After some time, the particles begin to settle to the ground. Consider a nearly
spherical ash particle of diameter 50 m, falling in air whose temperature is -50 C and whose
pressure is 55 kPa. The density of the particle is 1240 kg/m3. Estimate the terminal velocity of
this particle at this altitude.
Q2
A person drops 3 aluminum balls of diameters 2 mm, 4 mm, and 10 mm into a tank filled with
glycerin at 22°C ( =1 kg·m/s), and measured the terminal velocities to be 3.2 mm/s, 12.8 mm/s,
and 60.4 mm/s, respectively. The measurements are to be compared with theory using Stokes
law for drag force acting on a spherical object of diameter D expressed as FD= 3 DV for
Re << 1. Compare experimental velocities values with those predicted theoretically.
Q3
A drop of water in a rain cloud has diameter D = 42.5 mm. The air temperature is 25C, and its
pressure is standard atmospheric pressure. How fast does the air have to move vertically so that
the drop will remain suspended in the air?
Q4
3.6 kg of solid particles of density 2590 kg/m3 and surface-volume mean size 748 mm form a
packed bed of height 0.475 m in a circular vessel of diameter 0.0757 m. Water of density 1000
kg/m3 and viscosity 0.001 Pa s is passed upwards through the bed. Calculate (a) the bed pressure
drop at incipient fluidization, (b) the superficial liquid velocity at incipient fluidization?
Q5
In backwashing a bed of 20-mesh to 50-mesh of resin, the bed starts to expand when the flow
rates reaches to 0.4 gal/min. ft2 and has expanded 45% at 6 gal/min ft2. Show that these values
consistent with fluidization theories or not?
Q6
Water is filtered through a sand bed 150 mm thick. The depth of water on top of the bed is 120
mm. the porosity is 0.4 and the mean particle diameter is 0.25 mm. the dynamic viscosity is 0.89
cP and the density is 998 kg/m3. Calculate the flow rate per square metre of area?
Q7
Calculate the flow rate through a filterr 70 mm outside diameter and 40 mm inside diameter and
100 mm long given that the pressure on the outside is 20 kPa greater than on the inside. The
mean particle diameterr d is 0.04mm and the void fraction is 0.3. The dynamic viscosity is 0.06
Ns/m2.