CONFIDENTIAL, EHIJUN 2015/CHE604/CPE604 UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA FINAL EXAMINATION COURSE : PLANT DESIGN AND ECONOMICS COURSE CODE : CHE604/CPE604 EXAMINATION : JUNE 2015 TIME : 3HOURS INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES 1 This question paper consists of five (5) questions. 2 ‘Answer ALL questions in the Answer Booklet. Start each answer on a new page. 3 Do not bring any material into the examination room unless permission is given by the invigilator. 4 Please check to make sure that this examination pack consists of, i) the Question Paper ii) an Answer Booklet - provided by the Faculty iii) aone— page Appendix 1 iv) aone— page Appendix 2 v)aone— page Appendix 3 5. Answer ALL questions in English. DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO This examination paper consists of 5 printed pages (© Hak Cipta Universiti Teknologi MARA CONFIDENTIAL,CONFIDENTIAL 2 EHIJUN 2015/CHE604/CPE604 QUESTION 1 (P01, PO2, CO1, CO2, C2, C4) (a) Develop a table to differentiate between Chemical Product Design and Chemical Process Design by contrasting their respective Objective, Strategic Approach to achieve the Objective, and Procedures for Decision-Making. (15 marks) (b) Brown rice is whole grain rice which is more nutritious than white rice, but in Malaysia most people prefer to eat white rice. The main differences between the two forms of rice lie in processing and nutritional content. The block diagram of the process to produce white rice is as in Figure 1. (Dehusking 4 a" Figure 1. Block diagram of process to produce white rice. When only the outermost layer of a grain of rice (ie the husk) is removed, brown rice is produced. To produce white rice, the next layers underneath the husk (ie the bran layer and the germ) are removed, leaving mostly the starchy endosperm. Several vitamins, dietary minerals and as well the oil in the bran, are lost in this removal of the bran layer and the germ, and the subsequent polishing process. In many Malaysian rice mills, the removed bran layer and the germ are discarded as waste. As part of its expansion strategy, your company partnered a 10-ton/h, 6000h/yr Padi Miller Company to set up a new joint-venture company to go into products based on the rice bran layer and germ. Your task is to conduct a hierarchical conceptual process design to produce rice bran oil as the model product from the waste. Rice bran obtained during milling is 10% whw of padi milled. The rice milling company charges RM1000 per ton of rice bran waste. The bran contains 30% wiw oil. 97% wiw of rice bran oil is extracted by solvent extraction using hexane. The hexane is fully recovered and is re-used. The capital cost of equipments for the solvent extraction plant of capacity to process all the rice bran waste is RMSO million Rice bran oil is sold at RM15 per Kg. Outline how you will accomplish your tasks. (10 Marks) (© Hak Cipta Universiti Teknologi MARA, CONFIDENTIALCONFIDENTIAL 3 EHIJUN 2015/CHE604/CPE604 QUESTION 2 (P01, PO2, CO1, CO2, C3, C4) (a) For the styrene production process through dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene, the design specifications of T-402 (distillation column) is shown in Table 1. By using the information from the stream table for T-402 as described in Table 2, check the design specifications of T-402 against the appropriate heuristics. Give comments on any significant differences that could be found. Table 1. Design Specifications Material of construction Carbon steel No. of trays 158 (Feed at tray78) Reflux ratio 10.06 Type of tray Bubble cap Height 24.1m Diameter 6.9m 7 Table 2. Details on composition entering and leaving T-402 ‘Stream Feed Overhead Bottom ‘Temperature (°C) 125.02 90.83 123.67 Pressure (kPa) 65 25 55 Vapour mole 0 0 0 fraction Total flow (kg/h) 23,420.04 10,912.92 12,507.12 Total flow (kmol/h) 222.88 102.79 120.08 ‘Component flows iL Ethylbenzene 102.78 702.73 0.05) Styrene [720.09 0.06 720.03 | Given: dp = 1.37 and apron = 1.29 (10 marks) (b) The production of ammor using the Haber process could be described by the following highly exothermic reaction, which occurs at 500°C and 250 atm pressure by using a porous iron catalyst. Nagy +3Hagg) & 2NHy AH = ~924// Give the possible reasons for the industrial process of making ammonia operates at 500 °C and 250 atmospheres pressure. Provide the penalties for operating at conditions for special concern, (© Hak Cipta Universiti Teknologi MARA. (7 marks) CONFIDENTIAL