ChE 520L Integrated Activity 1-Calculations 1 & 2 2nd Sem 2018-19

1. The end product in a certain process is 96% H2SO4 b. Carburizing flame

and 4 % SO3. This means that the product is c. Long flame
a. 96 % oleum d. Heat losses
b. 100% oleum 11. The presence of this in a dry gaseous fuel does not
c. 4 % oleum contribute to its calorific value
d. None of the above a. Sulfur
2. It is the hydrogen in the fuel that uses O2 from air b. Oxygen
for combustion c. Hydrogen
a. Total hydrogen d. Carbon
b. Combined hydrogen 12. The heat that causes a change in temperature of an
c. Net hydrogen object
d. Free hydrogen a. Latent heat
3. Octane number compares fuel performance with b. Sensible heat
this c. Heating value
a. C4H8 d. Heat of combustion
b. C6H14 13. A portion of the recycle stream is removed from the
c. C10H22 system to avoid accumulation of undesired material
d. C8H18 a. Splitter
4. It is the type of heat lost in the stack gas due to the b. Remix
presence of CO and H2 free in the stack gas c. Bypass
a. Latent heat d. Purge
b. Sensible heat 14. It is an operation
c. Heating value a. Total hydrogen
d. Potential heat b. Combined hydrogen
5. The empirical relation which allows one to compute c. Net hydrogen
for the net hydrogen in a given solid fuel d. Free hydrogen
a. Dulong formula 15. It is the type of heat lost in the stack gas due to the
b. Calderwood formula presence of CO and H2 free in the stack gas
c. Heat balance a. Heating value
d. Antoine’s equation b. Latent heat
6. It is a coal that has only lost its moisture c. Potential heat
a. Coked coal d. Sensible heat
b. Uncoked coal 16. Which of the following constituent of coal is most
c. Charcoal important in the production of coke?
d. Green coal a. Ash
7. It is the hydrogen in the fuel that uses O2 from air b. Carbon
for combustion c. Moisture
a. Total hydrogen d. Net hydrogen
b. Combined hydrogen 17. During combustion of gaseous fuels,deficiency of
c. Net hydrogen air…
d. Free hydrogen a. Increases the flame temperature
8. Shale oil has a potential to replace some of the b. Lengthens the flame
petroleum. It contains.. c. Tends to shorten the flame
a. Coke d. Does not affect the length of flame
b. Tar 18. Which is not true about theoretical oxygen?
c. Bitumen a. It is based on the oxygen required to burn
d. kerogen all the fuel to CO2, H2O or SO2
9. If CO2 is not fully absorbed by the KOH solution b. It is based on the complete combustion of
meant for its absorption in the Orsat apparatus it all fuel fed to the reactor.
appears as c. It is based on the complete combustion of
a. CO2 all fuel fed to the reactor
b. H2O d. None of the above
c. SO2 19. Solutions which distill without change in
d. NO2 composition are called
10. The use of excess combustion air in the combustion a. Azeotropic
of fuel results to b. Saturated
a. Condensation of water from fuel gas c. Supersaturated
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d. Ideal 29. The ratio of the partial pressure of a vapor to the
20. The ease or difficulty of spreading components by vapor pressure in equilibrium with the liquid is called
distillation is determined by a. Relative saturation
a. Relative volatility b. Relative humidity
b. Relative solubility c. Absolute saturation
c. Vapor pressure d. Absolute saturation
d. Viscosity 30. Process conditions are changing with time
21. The rate of material _______________ is zero in a. Steady state
case of a steady state system. b. Continuous
a. Production c. Unsteady state
b. Accumulation d. Batch
c. Reaction Linkage Problem(31-32):
d. Input Coal containing 79 % by weight carbon and 6 % by weight ash
22. The basis of all mass balance calculations is burned in air. The clinker from the furnace pit contains 90
a. Law of mass action % ash and 10 % carbon.
b. Law of conservation of mass 31. How many pounds of clinker are produced per 100
c. Degree of completion pounds of coal
d. T and P condition a. 6.67
23. Temperature taken from the vapor-gas mixture b. 3.33
using a thermometer with a wick which is wet with c. 9.63
the liquid form of the condensable gas where heat is d. 4.35
transferred from the mixture to the bulb 32. What is the % coal unburnt?
a. Dew point a. 0.47% coal basis
b. Atmospheric temperature b. 0.25% coal basis
c. Wet bulb temperature c. 0.87% coal basis
d. Dry bulb temperature d. 0.67% coal basis
24. In liquid extraction the transfer of solute between 33. A paper mill ships to a Texas distributor 12,208 lb of
two immiscible liquid is possible when there is a paper. A sample of carefully taken at the mill is
difference in found by analysis to contain 4.28 % moisture. A
a. Solubility sample similarly taken at the destination by the
b. Specific gravity distributor shows 7.88 % moisture. What should be
c. Viscosity the weight of the shipment as received by him?
d. Mass a. 12,700 lbs
25. It involves the reverse transfer whereby water vapor b. 14,500 lbs
is transferred from the vapor state to the liquid state c. 15,200 lbs
a. Crystallization d. 17,450 lbs
b. Dehumidification Linkage Problem (34-35):
c. Absorption In order to calibrate an orifice used for metering the flow of
d. Humidification dry air in a 2 ft ID duct at 70 F and 16.2 psi , anhydrous
26. The term given to the two phase mixture of mother ammonia was bled into the center of the air stream at the
liquor and crystals rate of 0.251 lb/min. At a distance downstream sufficient to
a. Slurry ensure complete mixing of the ammonia and air, the air was
b. Magma analyzed for ammonia content. A small stream of the air was
c. Bagasse bubbled through 100 mL of 0.0105 N sulfuric acid in an
d. OATA efficient absorption ion device, and the rate of flow of the
27. Refers to the temperature at which vapor pressure is sampling stream was measured after absorbing the ammonia
equal to the partial pressure of vapor by passing the air through a drying tube and collecting the dry
a. Dew point air over mercury at 70 F and 1 atm pressure. The volume of
b. Dry bulb air collected was 0.202 cu ft. , and the amount of base
c. Equilibrium temperature (0.00995 N) required for the back titration of the 100 ml of
d. Wet bulb acid was 80.5 mL. Calculate the following :
28. Defined as the kilogram of water contained in 34. The flow rate of air in the duct, expressed as pounds
kilogram of dry air of air per minute
a. Relative humidity a. 281 lb/min
b. Humid volume b. 408 lb/min
c. Percent humidity c. 322 lb/min
d. Humidity d. 365 lb/min
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35. The air velocity in feet per second. d. 23.67 kg
a. 12 42. The maximum amount of total solids allowed in a
b. 19 boiler is 800 mg/L. The feed water has 10 mg/L
c. 26 solids. If the boiler produces 40,000 kg/h of steam,
d. 32 calculate the amount of water removed per hour by
Linkage Problem making a blow down.
Using the following diagram the reaction is A->2B a. 902 kg/h
b. 791 kg/h
c. 609 kg/h
d. 506 kg/h
43. Pure Na2CO3. 10 H2O was crystallized from a
solution containing 25 % Na2CO3 by evaporating 15
% water at a temperature of 25 deg C. Calculate the
36. What is the value of W? yield of crystals produced per 100 kg or original
a. 10 mole/hr solution.
b. 20 mole/hr a. 55.9 %
c. 30 mole/hr b. 49.1 %
d. 50 mole/hr c. 41.7 %
37. What is the value of P? d. 37.3 %
a. 2.5 mole/h 44. Stock containing 1.6 kg of water per kg of dry stock is
b. 5.0 mole/h to be dried to a product containing 0.10 kg of water
c. 7.5 mole/h per kg of dried stock. For each kg of dry stock 50 kg
d. 10 mole/h of dry air pass through the drier , leaving at a
38. What is the overall extent of reaction? humidity of 0.055. The fresh air is supplied at a
a. 2 humidity of 0.016. Calculate the fraction of air
b. 5 recirculated.
c. 7 a. 0.557
d. 10 b. 0.231
39. What is the overall fraction conversion? c. 0.461
a. 10 % d. 0.336
b. 20 % Linkage Problem(45-47)
c. 80 % Producer gas is made by treating brown coal with an air
d. 100 % steam mixture at a high temperature
40. A calcium carbonate sludge is burned in a rotary kiln 2C+O2 -> CO +H2
to regenerate lime in a countercurrent operation. C+H2O -> CO2 +H2
The flue gas is leaving the cold end of the kiln and The brown coal contains 62 % C by weight. For the production
the sludge entering the same end have the following of 1000 m3 of producer gas containing 40 % CO, 18 % H2, and
compositions : 42 % N2 by volume.
Flue Gas % by vol Sludge % by weight 45. Calculate the consumption of brown coal
CO2 20.4 CaCO2 44.7 a. 251 kg
CO 0.4 H2O 49.0 b. 349 kg
N2 77.1 Inerts 6.3 c. 416 kg
The kiln is fired with methane at 2900 cubic feet/h (dry at 60 d. 523 kg
F and 14.7 psia). Lime conversion is 90 % complete. What is 46. Calculate the consumption of air
the rate of CaO production? a. 688 kg
a. 4670 lbs/h b. 314 kg
b. 4850 lbs/h c. 527 kg
c. 5120 lbs/h d. 449 kg
d. 5870 lbs/h 47. Calculate the consumption of steam
41. How many kilograms of potassium nitrate will a. 123 kg
crystallize from 100 kg of solution saturated at 60 b. 110 kg
deg C if it is cooled to 0 deg C? The solubility of c. 167 kg
potassium nitrate at 60 deg C is 110 g and at 0 deg C, d. 145 kg
13 g in 100 g of water. Linkage Problem(48-50)
a. 12.44 kg A sample of coke containing 80 % C , 6 % H2, 8 % O2, 1.4 %
b. 46.19 kg N2, 0.6 % S and 4 % ash is gasified in a generator. The gas
c. 33.15 kg
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produced contains 32 % CO, 12 % H2 , 6% CO2, and 50 % N2. c. CO2 = 12.45 ;H2O= 10.22; O2 =5.22 ; N2
Calculate : =72.11 %
48. m3 gas produced per kg coke d. CO2 = 8.56 ;H2O= 9.26; O2 =6.59 ; N2
a. 4.81 =75.61 %
b. 3.93
c. 2.99 56. A salt solution containing 24 % NaCl by weight is
d. 2.46 prepared in the following manner:
49. m3 of air used for gasification of coke.
a. 4.72
b. 3.98
c. 2.91
d. 2.47 A part of the inflow water stream is introduced into a vessel
50. When pure carbon is burned in air, some of it gets containing common salt, where it becomes saturated. The
oxidized to CO2 and some to CO. if the ratio of N2 saturated solution, containing 26.63 % NaCl, is then mixed
:O2 be 7.18 and that of CO : CO2 b 2.0 in the flue with bypass water stream to give 24 % NaCl solution.
gases calculate the excess air used. Assume that the Calculate the ratio x:y in which the two streams are to be
flue gases contain N2 , O2 , CO and CO2 only mixed.
a. 30 % a. 4.22
b. 35 % b. 6.72
c. 40 % c. 8.22
d. 45 % d. 5.15
Linkage problem(54-56) 57. What is the amount of iron that can be produced
A boiler burns fuel oil with dry air at 30 deg C and 100 kPa. from 1 ton of an iron ore containg 89 % Fe2O3?
The average Orsat analysis of the flue gas is CO2=12.9 % a. 791.4 kg
O2=3.8 % N2=83.3 %. Assuming that the oil contains only b. 755.3 kg
carbon and hydrogen, calculate the following c. 691.4 kg
51. % excess air d. 622.5 kg
a. 15.3 58. A tank holds 100 gal of a salt-water solution in which
b. 20.7 4.0 lbm of salt are dissolved. Water runs into the
c. 28.3 tank at the rate of 5 gal/min and salt solution
d. 35.1 overflows at the same rate . if the mixing in the tank
52. The weight % carbon in oil is adequate to keep the concentration of salt in the
a. 87.7 tank uniform at all times, how much salts is in the
b. 65.4 tank at the end of 50 min? Assume that the density
c. 76.3 of the salt solution is essentially the same as that of
d. 59.2 pure water.
53. m3 of air consumed per kg oil a. 0.328 lb/100 gal
a. 15.04 b. 0.122 lb/100 gal
b. 21.41 c. 0.446lb/100 gal
c. 11.22 d. 0.287lb/100 gal
d. 27.31 Linkage Problem(59-61)
Linkage problem 57-58 A gas stream that contains 1.5 mole % CO2 flows through a
Fuel oil (assumed to be C12H26) is injected into a furnace and pipeline . 20 kg of CO2/min is injected into the line. A sample
completely burned with 1.5 times the air theoretically of the gas is drawn from a point in the line 150 m
required for complete combustion. What are the downstream of the injection point and found to contain 2.3
compositions of the flue gas on mol % CO2.
54. Dry basis 59. Estimate the gas flow rate in kmol/min upstream of
a. CO2 = 10.12 ; O2 =6.15 ; N2= 83.73 % the injection point after steady state had been
b. CO2 = 9.42 ; O2 =7.26 ; N2 =83.32 % reached
c. CO2 = 8.67 ; O2 =12.56 ; N2 =78.77 % a. 44.13
d. CO2 = 4.84 ; O2 =6.53 ; N2 =88.63 % b. 55.51
55. Wet basis c. 61.81
a. CO2 = 9.95 ;H2O= 15.06; O2 =15.06 ; N2 d. 72.33
=69.01 % 60. If the CO2 concentration at the measurement
b. CO2 = 6.21 ;H2O= 8.08; O2 =7.55 ; N2 points(150 m downstream) begins to rise at 18 s
=78.16 % after the additional CO2 was first injected . Assuming
that the tracer travels at the average velocity of the
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gas in the pipeline (i.e. neglecting diffusion of CO2),
estimate the average velocity (m/s).
a. 8.333 m/s
b. 9.211 m/s
c. 10.222 m/s
d. 11.337 m/s
61. If the molar gas density is 0.123 kmol/m3, what is
the pipe diameter?
a. 0.458
b. 0.908
c. 1.072
d. 2.901
Linkage problem(62-65)
The gases entering on NH3 reactor are in mole ratio of
4H2:N2. The mole ratio of the gases in the exit stream is 4.25.
Reaction proceeds as
H2 +N2 -> NH3
Determine:
62. What is the limiting reactant?
a. H2
b. N2
c. H2 and N2
d. Cannot be determined
63. % Excess reactant
a. 33.33
b. 25.66
c. 36.67
d. 44.44
64. What volume of entering gas (measured at 500 deg
C, 1 atm) must enter the reactor to produce 150
metric tons of pure NH3 per day?
a. 4500 m3/day
b. 5000 m3/day
c. 6000 m3/day
d. 7000 m3/day
65. What is the % conversion of H2 in the previous
question?
a. 12 %
b. 15%
c. 18%
d. 21%