TUTORIAL 1

SKKK2123 (Principle Chemical Processes II)

1. The heat capacity at constant pressure of hydrogen cyanide is given by
the expression:
Cp [J/mol.C] = 35.3 + 0.0291 T (C)
(a) Write an expression for the heat capacity at constant volume for HCN,
assuming ideal gas behaviour
(b) Calculate H [J/mol] for the constant pressure:
HCN (25 C, 1 atm) HCN (100 C, 1 atm)
(c) Calculate U [J/mol] for the constant volume process:
HCN (25 C, 1 m3/kmol) HCN (100 C, 1 m3/kmol)
(d) If the process of part (b) were carried out in such a way that the initial
and final pressures were each 1 atm but the pressure varied during the
heating, the value of H would still be what you calculated assuming a
constant pressure. Why is this so?

2. Estimate the specific enthalpy of steam (kJ/kg) at 350 C and 100 bar
relative to steam at 100 C and 1 atm using:
(a)

The steam table

(b)

Table B2 and assuming ideal gas behaviour

(c)

What is the physical significance of the difference between the values of

H calculated by the two methods?

3. Chlorine gas is to be heated from 100 C and 1 atm to 200 C.

(a)

Calculate the heat input (kW) required to heat a stream of the gas
flowing at 5 kmol/s at constant pressure

(b)

Calculate the heat input (kJ) required to raise the temperature of 5 kmol
of chlorine in a closed rigid vessel from 100 C and atm to 200 C.

4. Calculate the heat required to raise 50 kg of solid sodium carbonate

(Na2CO3) from 10 C to 50 C at 1 atm using:
(a)
(b)

The true heat capacity of Na2CO3, which is 1.14 kJ/kg.C

A heat capacity estimated by Koops rule. Calculate the percentage error
in the latter calculation.

5. Saturated steam at 300 C is used to heat a countercurrently flowing

stream of methanol vapour from 65 C to 260 C in an adiabatic heat
exchanger. The flow rate of the methanol is 5500 standard liters per
minute (STP), and the steam condenses and leaves the heat exchanger as
liquid water at 90 C.