IIIT RK Valley (Idupulapaya)

Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies - Andhra Pradesh

Academic Year 2019 – 20: Semester I
Mid Semester Test-3

Chemical Engineering
CH2103– Mass Transfer Operations-I
R16 Batch & Regular
Year: ENGG-2 Date of Examination: 16-11- 2019
Time: 45 Minutes Max Marks: 15
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3X5 Marks= 15
The Question Paper Consists of 3 units. Answer one full question from each unit.
Each Question Carries 5 Marks and may have ‘A’, ‘B’ as two sub-questions
Note: Usage of any data/ Scientific calculator/code book may be permitted
Frame your answers as per the marks allotted to each question.
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1. A) Define the following
a. Wet bulb temperature (1 M)
b. Absolute humidity and percentage humidity (1 M)
c. Humid volume (1 M)
d. Relative humidity (1 M)
e. Humid heat and enthalpy (1 M)
OR
B) Determine the following psychrometric properties of a moist air sample having a dry bulb
temperature 27OC. and a humidity of 0.015 kg/(kg dry air) using the psychrometric chart
and /or the vapor pressure equation for water:
i. relative humidity (0.5M)
ii. dew point (0.5M)
iii. adiabatic saturation temperature (1M)
iv. wet-bulb temperature (0.5M)
v. enthalpy (1M)
vi. humid volume (0.5M)
vii. humid heat (1M)
3984.923
The Antoine equation for water is InAv (bar )  11.96481  . The total pressure is 1
(T  39.724)
atm.
2. A) Derive Merkel Equation for cooling tower calculation?
OR
B) Derive equation for calculation of the drying time from the drying rate data?
3. A) (i) A wet solid of 28% moisture is to be dried to 0.5%moisture in tray dryer. a laboratory
test shows that it requires 8 hours to reduce the moisture content of the same solid to 2%. The
critical moisture content is 6% and the equilibrium moisture is 0.2%. The falling rate of drying
is linear in the free moisture content. Calculate the drying time of the solid if the drying
conditions similar to those in the laboratory test are maintained. All moistures are expressed as
percentage of bone dry mass of the solid. (3M)

ii) Briefly explain classification of drying equipment’s of gas-solid contact in dryers. (2M)
OR

B) A batch of the solid, for which the following table of data applies, is to be dried from 25 to
6 percent moisture under conditions identical to those for which the data were tabulated. The
initial weight of the wet solid in 350 kg, and the drying surface is 1m 2/8kg dry weight.
Determine the time for drying. (5M)

𝐾𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 35 25 20 18 16 14 12 10 9 8 7 6.4
X ×100 𝑘𝑔 𝑑𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑑

N ×100 30 30 30 26.6 23.6 20.8 18 15 9.7 7 4.3 2.5

𝐾𝑔 𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑
ℎ𝑟.𝑚2