ChE 450 Chemical Process Design and Analysis I Fall, 2013

Washington State University Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering Richard L. Zollars

Problem 15.28, Turton, Bailie, Whiting and Schaewitz Consider the following process streams, all containing the same solute. The partition coefficient between both rich phases and the lean phase in 0.667 (i.e., y = 0.667 x). kg/s 4 6 kg/s 4 1 yin 0.100 0.070 yin 0.065 0.000 yout 0.060 0.050 yout 0.125 0.080

R1 = 1 R2 = 2 L1 = 3 L2 = 4

Synthesize the MUMNE mass-exchange network for a minimum approach composition of = 0.010. SOLUTION a. For the equilibrium condition given and the minimum approach you get the relationship

or

The composition interval diagram would look like the following Stream # 0.10 0 0.090 0.070 1 4 2 6 A 0.125 B -0.040 0.095 3 4 4 1 0.14 0.040

C 0.060 D 0.050 0.00667 0.065 0.080

0.040 -0.015

-0.065
-0.040

0.000

b. The cascade diagram would look like A 0.040 0.040 B -0.040

C 0.040 0.040 D -0.015 0.025 Ru 0.040 E -0.065

There is not really a pinch point in this diagram as only a rich utility is required to balance all of the mass transfer operations required. The minimum rich utility is 0.040 kg/s. c. The minimum number of exchangers is given by

1 0.160 0.160 3 0.240 Thus four exchangers are required. 0.080

2 0.120
0.040 4 0.080

Ru 0.040 0.040

d. The exchanger network would look like the following

Stream # 0.10 0 0.090 0.070

1 4

2 6 A

3 4

4 1

0.14 0.040 0.125 -0.040 0.095

C 0.060 D 0.050 E 0.00667 0.065 0.000 0.080

0.040
-0.015 -0.065 -0.040

0.10 0 0.060

1 2

0.160

0.125 1

0.070
0.0567 3 0.050

0.080

0.085
2 0.065 4 3

0.000 Ru = 0.040 0.040 760

0.000

0.040 0

This would give a heat exchanger network that looks like the following schematic. We can also develop a composite x mass transferred diagram for this system. The table of values appears below. The composite curves follow on the next page. Rich Streams Mass transferred 0 0.060 0.100 0.080 0.040 Mass Fraction (Lean) 0.065 0.080 0.095 0.125 0.14 Lean Streams Mass Mass Fraction transferred Cumulative (Lean) 0.000 0 0 0.065 0.065 0.065 0.075 0.140 0.080 0.060 0.200 0.095 0.120 0.320 0.125

Interval E D C B A

Cumulative 0 0.060 0.160 0.240 0.280

Interval E D C B A

0.100

.070 0.065

0.125

1 0.085

0.0567 0.040 3 0.000

0.080

4 Ru = 0.040

0.060

0.050

Problem 28, Chapter 15

0.16

0.14

0.12

0.1 Mole Fraction

0.08 Rich 0.06 Lean

0.04

0.02

0 0 0.05 0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 Cumulative Mass Transferred (kg/s)

In a manner similar to the heat exchanger networks, the horizontal offset between the rich composite curve and the lean composite curve should represent the needed lean utility. IN this case there is no offset so no lean utility is needed (as was determine earlier). Likewise the horizontal offset at the right hand side represents the rich utility. In this case the rich composite curve ends at a cumulative mass transferred of 0.28 kg/s while the lean composite curve terminates at 0.32 kg/s. Thus the rich utility required is 0.32 0.28 = 0.04 kg/s, which is the same as we found using the cascade diagram. Further note that there is no pinch, as we also determined earlier.