Overview

Air contaminated with a gas (SO2) from an industrial process must be

cleaned. You are to provide an engineering design of a scrubber to remove one of these gases.

Essentially, you are to determine the height and diameter of the scrubber, pressure drop, and the

solvent flow rate needed to meet or exceed the limiting exit gas concentration for your system.

The design study should be carried out at 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 atm pressures. See the attached sheet

for your solvent, solute, entering gas flow rate, gas composition, temperature and packing

material (all gas volumes reported in the tables are specified at standard conditions). Clean

solvent is the liquid feed to the scrubber, and it is sent in at 1.5 times the minimum flow rate.

NOTE: you can assume that the scrubber operates isothermally and that

there is no air in the liquid stream or no solvent in the gas stream. However, you

should justify these assumptions.

A) A graph similar to Figure 22.5-3a (10.6-10a) that shows the operating and

equilibrium lines for the pressures and temperatures.

B) The height and diameter of the scrubber, pressure drop, and the liquid flow rate as

a function of pressure and temperature. This information must be summarized in

one table and four figures (e.g., plot height versus pressure at two temperatures on

the same graph). You need to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of

the different operating conditions.

C) An appendix containing a table listing the required physical properties (e.g., the density,

viscosity, diffusion coefficients) and water flow rate at each temperature and pressure.

D) An appendix containing the Excel worksheet of a complete set of calculations for the

physical properties of the solute and solvent, the column dimensions, and pressure drop.
Packing : B

Gas conditions : A

Temp : B

Solute: So2

Solvent: Water