Draw Diagram for Process Separating Ethanol and Water

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Question

A distillation column separating ethanol and water has a feed of 1000mol/hr of a 25% mol% ethanol mix. There is a distillate product of 500mol/hr of 70% ethanol coming off the total condenser, using L/D ratio of 3.

a.    Show a diagram of this process.
b.    Making use of the fact that the equilibrium Yetoh = 0.7 when Xetoh = 0.6, give the concentration of ethanol in the vapor coming off tray #2? Show all the work.

Summary

The question belongs to Chemical Engineering and it is about a distillation column separating ethanol and water. The diagram for this process needs to be drawn and the concentration of ethanol in the vapor also needs to calculated.

Note: The solution is in handwritten format.

 

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