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QUESTION 1

Two hundreds kilogram per hour of a 25% trimethylamine (TMA) in benzene solution is
to be extracted in a continuous counter current liquid-liquid extraction system with a
solvent containing 98 wt% water and 2 wt% TMA. The exit concentration of the raffinate
is to contain 8 wt% of TMA. The phase boundary and tie line composition of the system
are given in Table 2 and Table 3, respectively.

a) Calculate the minimum solvent flow rate.


(14 Marks)

b) Using a solvent flow rate of 1.5 times the minimum, determine the number of
theoretical stages, the flow rate and the composition of each stream leaving the final
stage.
(17 Marks)

c) What are the elements that will be affected when the solvent flow rate is reduced to 0.5
times the minimum? Give a reasonable justification for each answer.
(4 Marks)

Table 2: Trimethylamine-Water-Benzene Composition on Phase Boundary


Extract, wt% Raffinate, wt%
TMA H2 O Benzene TMA H2O Benzene
5.0 94.6 0.4 5.0 0.0 95.0
10.0 89.4 0.6 10.0 0.0 90.0
15.0 84.0 1.0 15.0 1.0 84.0
20.0 78.0 2.0 20.0 2.0 78.0
25.0 72.0 3.0 25.0 4.0 71.0
30.0 66.4 3.6 30.0 7.0 63.0
35.0 58.0 7.0 35.0 15.0 50.0
40.0 47.0 13.0 40.0 34.0 26.0

Table 3: Tie-Line Data for Trimethylamine-Water-Benzene System


Extract, wt% TMA Raffinate, wt% TMA
39.5 31.0
21.5 14.5
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13.0 9.0
8.3 6.8
4.0 3.5

QUESTION 2

Sugar needs to be leached from sugar beets using hot water as solvent in a countercurrent
multistages process. The underflow inlet contains 1050 kg of sugar beets, 122 kg of sugar
and 3 kg of hot water while 15% of sugar and 290 of sugar beets leave underflow stream.
The underflow outlet stream is linear with slope -3.5 that intersects at y-axis at 4.5 and 79
kg of pure hot water entering the overflow system.

a) Calculate the amount of V1 (kg) and LN (kg).


(28 Marks)

b) Calculate the actual stages if the process efficiency is 91%.


(2 Marks)

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