UOPS 2- Part 2

The viscosity of ethyl benzene is ____cp at 60°C. 0.44

Zinc is to be recovered from an ore containing zinc sulfide. The ore is first roasted with
oxygen to produce zinc oxide, which is then leached with aqueous sulfuric acid to produce
water soluble zinc sulfate and an insoluble, worthless residue called gangue. The decanted
sludge of 20,000 kg/h contains 5 weight % water, 10 weight % zinc sulfate and the balance
as gangue. This sludge is to be washed with water in a continuous countercurrent washing
system to produce an extract, called a strong solution, of 10 weight % zinc sulfate in water
with a 98 % recovery of the zinc sulfate. Assume that the underflow from each washing
stage contains, by weight, two parts of water (sulfate-free basis) per part of gangue, the
number of stages required is 10
It is desired to separate a mixture of crystals into three fractions, a coarse fraction retained
on an 8 mesh screen, a middle fraction
passing an 8 mesh but retained on a 14 mesh screen and a fine fraction passing a 14
mesh. Two screens in series are used, an 8 mesh and 14 mesh, conforming to the Tyler
standard. Screen analyses of feed, coarse, medium and fine fractions are shown in the
table below.
The aperture for mesh numbers 8 and 14 are 2.362 mm and 1.168 mm respectively.
Screen Mesh Feed Coarse fraction Middle fraction Fine fraction
3/4 to 6/8 46 88 40 —-
8/14 39.5 12 49.1 46.7
14/20 to 35/48 14.5 —- 10.9 53.3
Total 100 100 100 100
On the basis of 100 MT of feed to the first screen per hour,
The area required for the bottom screen if the shaking screen has a capacity of 4 MT per
hr-m2-mm is 16.1 m2
Air at 101.3 kPa absolute at 25oC is flowing at a velocity of 10 m/s in a wind tunnel. A long
cylinder having a diameter of 90 mm is placed in the tunnel and the axis of the cylinder is
held perpendicular to air flow. For air at 25oC and 101.3 kPa: ρ = 1.187 kg/m3 & µ = 1.845
x 10-5 kg/m-s. The force on the cylinder per meter length is 6.64 N

The feed to a cooling crystallizer is 1000lb/h at 120°F. The solution is cooled to 70°F. It has
a 3 ft2 of cooling surface per foot of running length of crystallizer. The required rate of heat
transfer is 44,900 Btu/h. Cooling will be provided by a countercurrent flow of chilled water
entering the cooling jacket at 60°F and leaving at 85°F. The overall heat transfer coefficient,
U, is expected to be 20 Btu/h-ft2°F. The length of the crystallizer is 37 ft.
An acetaldehyde-toluene solution containing 6% acetaldehyde by weight is being treated
with water in a three stage co-current extraction battery to remove acetaldehyde. Water
and toluene are completely immiscible and the equilibrium distribution of acetaldehyde
between them is given by the relation: Y = 2.2 X
where: Y = kg acetaldehyde per kg water and X = kg acetaldehyde per kg toluene
The percentage acetaldehyde extracted is, if 100 kg of feed is extracted once with 180 kg
of water 80.83%
An available crusher has been accepting hard rock with a volume-surface mean diameter
of 0.069 m and providing a product with a volume-surface mean diameter of 5 x 10-3 m.
The power required for crushing 10,000 kg/h of this specific rock is 6.35 kW. Assume that
the mechanical efficiency of the unit will remain unchanged. The power consumption using
Bond’s law if the capacity were reduced to 9000 kg/h with the same feed characteristics
but with a reduction in the volume surface mean diameter of the product to 4 x 10-3 m is
6.64 kW
A 10,000 lb batch of a 32.5% MgSO4 solution at 120°F is cooled without appreciable
evaporation to 70°F. At 70°F the concentration of solids is 26.3 lb MgSO4 per 100 lb
solution. Assuming that the mother liquor leaving is saturated, the mass of MgSO47H2O
crystals that will be formed is 2756 lb
It is desired to separate a mixture of crystals into three fractions, a coarse fraction retained
on an 8 mesh screen, a middle fraction
passing an 8 mesh but retained on a 14 mesh screen and a fine fraction passing a 14
mesh. Two screens in series are used, an 8 mesh and 14 mesh, conforming to the Tyler
standard. Screen analyses of feed, coarse, medium and fine fractions are shown in the
table below.
The aperture for mesh numbers 8 and 14 are 2.362 mm and 1.168 mm respectively.
Screen Mesh Feed Coarse fraction Middle fraction Fine fraction
3/4 to 6/8 46 88 40 —-
8/14 39.5 12 49.1 46.7
14/20 to 35/48 14.5 —- 10.9 53.3
Total 100 100 100 100
On the basis of 100 MT of feed to the first screen per hour,
The mass of the intermediate material produce per hour is 60.2 MT
Formation of large crystals is favored by a high degree of supersaturation
For a solid spherical particle of 0.80 mm in diameter and a density of 2600 kg/m3 that is
immersed in a fluid of density 1200 kg/m3 and a viscosity of one centipoise, the unhindered
terminal velocity is 0.0975 m/s
The average pore diameter and surface area of polyacrylic ester for purification of pulping
wastewaters and antibiotics recovery are 10-25 and 0.15-0.4
An aqueous solution of acetic acid is to be extracted with isopropyl ether. The solution
contains 24.6 kg of acetic acid and 80 kg of H2O. Water and isopropyl ether may be
considered as completely immiscible under these conditions. At the temperature of the
extraction, the following equilibrium data apply:
kg acetic acid/kg isopropyl ether 0.03 0.046 0.063 0.07 0.078 0.086
kg acetic acid/kg H2O 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.22 0.28 0.26
If 100 kg of isopropyl ether is added to the solution, the weight of acetic acid that will be
extracted by isopropyl ether if equilibrium conditions are attained is 7 kg
A mixture of particles in packed bed contains the following volume percent of particles and
sizes: 15%, 10 mm; 25%, 20 mm; 40%, 40 mm and 20%, 70 mm. The effective mean
diameter, Dpm if the shape factor is 0.74 is 18.34 mm
A crusher is fed with limestone having particles of 2.0 cm median equivalent diameter and
discharges a product consisting of particles of 0.50 cm median equivalent diameter. The
feed particles can be considered very coarse and so Kick’s law would be the most
appropriate. The equipment operates at a capacity of 1.2 x 104 kg/h consuming a power
of 10 Hp. If the requirements of the process demand a finer size of the product (0.4 cm of
median equivalent diameter) decreasing the capacity to 1.0 x 104 kg/h, the theoretical
power consumption under the new conditions is 7.2 kW
The terminal settling velocity in water at 70°F of a particle with a specific gravity of 5.0 and
diameter of 100 microns is ____ ft/s 0.014
With the lowering of equilibrium pressure at a given temperature, the amount of
adsorbate on adsorbent decreases
An acetaldehyde-toluene solution containing 6% acetaldehyde by weight is being treated
with water in a three stage co-current extraction battery to remove acetaldehyde. Water
and toluene are completely immiscible and the equilibrium distribution of acetaldehyde
between them is given by the relation: Y = 2.2 X
where: Y = kg acetaldehyde per kg water and X = kg acetaldehyde per kg toluene
If 60 kg water is used in each stage per 100 kg of feed, the percentage acetaldehyde
extracted is 92.8%
An extractor that can facilitate a liquid-liquid extraction process by reducing diffusion path
lengths and increasing the driving force for liquid-liquid phase separation. It can achieve a
very high specific throughput with very low liquid residence time. Centrifugal extractor
Partition ratios can be particularly sensitive to temperature when mutual solubility
between the feed and extraction solvent involves hydrogen bonding. An interesting
example is the extraction of citric acid from water using 1-butoxy-2-propanol as a solvent.
Its partition ration at a temperature of 80°C is 0.40
What is the bowl diameter of a disc type sedimenting centrifuge with the following
specifications and performance characteristics:
speed = 4,000 rev/min, liquid throughput rate = 20 – 200 gal/min and typical motor size =
7.5 Hp? 24 in
A laboratory test was conducted with a small, tubular-bowl centrifuge on a fermentation
broth. At the operating conditions, a sigma value of 7400 ft2 was computed, with a
measured volumetric flow rate of 0.11 gal/min. For the commercial plant that will process
the same broth, the largest tubular bowl centrifuge available has the following
characteristics: bowl speed = 15000 rpm, r2 = 5 cm, r1 = 2 cm, and bowl depth = 100
cm. Using the sigma scale-up theory, the volumetric flow rate of this unit can process is
0.37 gal/min
The average work index of CaSO4 2H2O in kWh/ton is 8.16
The following equilibrium relationship was obtained during the treatment of an aqueous
solution of a valuable solute by decolorizing carbon for removal of coloring impurities: Y =
8.91 x 10-5 X1.66
where X = adsorbate concentration per kg of carbon and Y = equilibrium color units per kg
of solution measured on an arbitrary scale proportional to the concentration of the colored
impurity.
It is proposed to reduce the color of the solution to 20% of its original value of 9.0. The
quantity of fresh carbon required per 100 kg of the solution in single stage operation is
1.84 kg
The solubility of strontium acetate in water at 0°C is _____parts per 100 parts water. 36.9