Practice Questions With Recycle

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1) Find the kilograms of R per 100 kg of fresh feed for the following process:

2) A reaction with stoichiometry A → B takes place in a process with the


following flowchart:

a. What is the overall conversion?

b. What is the single-pass conversion?

c. Explain why do we need recycling? What happens if we do not recycle?

d. Suppose additionally you have an inert material C, contained in the fresh feed
and each time all of it is being recycled. Why would the process eventually
shut down? What can you do to prevent it?
3) Examine the figure below. What is the quantity of the recycle stream in
kilograms per hour? In stream C the composition is 4% water and 96%
KNO3.

4) Examine the figure below. NaCl and the feed solution react to form CaCl2.
In the reactor the conversion of CaCO3 is 76% complete. Unreacted CaCO3
is recycled. Calculate (a) the kilograms of Na2CO3 exiting the separator per
1000 kg of feed, and (b) the kilograms of CaCO3 recycled per 1000 kg of
feed.

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