This document appears to be instructions and questions for a midterm exam in thermodynamics and chemistry for engineers. It includes multiple choice questions about concepts like heat transfer, phase changes, solubility, crystallization, and oil extraction processes. It provides context and calculations for each question and links some questions/calculations together in problem sets.
This document appears to be instructions and questions for a midterm exam in thermodynamics and chemistry for engineers. It includes multiple choice questions about concepts like heat transfer, phase changes, solubility, crystallization, and oil extraction processes. It provides context and calculations for each question and links some questions/calculations together in problem sets.
This document appears to be instructions and questions for a midterm exam in thermodynamics and chemistry for engineers. It includes multiple choice questions about concepts like heat transfer, phase changes, solubility, crystallization, and oil extraction processes. It provides context and calculations for each question and links some questions/calculations together in problem sets.
This document appears to be instructions and questions for a midterm exam in thermodynamics and chemistry for engineers. It includes multiple choice questions about concepts like heat transfer, phase changes, solubility, crystallization, and oil extraction processes. It provides context and calculations for each question and links some questions/calculations together in problem sets.
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\CHEMISTRY FOR ENGINEERS • Calculate the weight % of MgCl2 and
THERMODYNAMICS I NaBr in the concentrate.
• Loss of heat • No loss of MIDTERM EXAM heat • Gain of heat • No gain of INSTRUCTIONS: Select the correct heat answer by marking the circle corresponding to the letter of your • Calculate the composition of the choice on the sheet provided. Solutions cake if all water is evaporated. (if applicable) are required, box your • constant • adiabatic final answer. Strictly no erasures. Use volume process pencil no.2 or black ball pen only. process WARNING: SHADED ANSWERS • constant • isothermal WITHOUT CORRESPONDING pressure process SOLUTION WILL INCUR DEDUCTIVE process POINTS. A hot solution of Ba(NO3)2 from an evaporator contains 30.6 kg of Ba(NO3)2 per 100 kg of water and goes to a crystallizer where the solution is cooled and Ba(NO3)2 crystallizes. On cooling 10% of the original water present evaporates. For a feed solution of 100 kg, calculate the following: (30) • The yield of crystals if the solution is cooled to 290 K, if the solubility is 8.6 kg Ba(NO3)2/100 kg total water at 290 K • isothermal • isentropic • adiabatic • NOTA
• The yield if cooled to 283 K, if the
solubility is 7.0 kg Ba(NO3)2/100 kg total water at 283 K • zero • +ve • dependent on • -ve the path
LINKED PROBLEMS 5 - 6 (55)
The solubility of NaNO3 in water is 1.76 kg/kg water at 373 K and 0.88 kg/kg A crude salt when dissolved in water yields water at 293 K. A 25% (weight) solution brine whose composition is 15% by weight of NaCl, 1% NaBr and 3% MgCl2. Some water is of NaNO3 in water is concentrated to evaporated and 40% of salt (NaCl) crystallises in saturation by evaporation at 373 K. It is pure form. On evaporation, brine looses 70% then cooled to 293 K. The crystals water. For 100 kg of original brine, (26) formed are separated. It is found that each kilogram of crystals so removed • 0.92 kJ • 4.06 kJ carries with it 0.1 kg of solution. When • 3.25 kJ • 1.83 kJ the crystals are dried, NaNO3 in the adhering solution gets deposited on the • What is the weight of crystals crystals. For 1000 kg of the original obtained if 5% of the original water dilute solution, calculate the following: evaporates on cooling? • – 0.92 kJ • 1.094 kJ • The amount of water evaporated for • 3.26 kJ • – 3.26 kJ attaining saturation at 373 K • decrease in • decrease in LINKED 11 - 13 velocity. temperature. Ten kilograms each of two salts A • decrease in • energy spent kinetic in doing and B are dissolved in 50 kg of water. energy. work. The solubility of A in water is 1 kg/kg of water and that of B is 0.5 kg/kg of • The weight of dry crystals obtained water. The solution is heated to • • evaporate water. When the • • concentration of the solution reaches the saturation concentration of any LINKED PROBLEMS 7 - 8 salt, further evaporation results in the A saturated solution containing 1500 crystallization of that salt. If 70% of kg of potassium chloride at 360 K is the water that is originally present in cooled in an open tank to 290 K. If the the solution is driven off by specific gravity of the solution is 1.2, evaporation, determine the following: the solubility of KCl per 100 parts of (50) water is 53.55 at 360 K and 34.5 at 290 • The weight of the final solution K, calculate • 3.19 kJ • 5.52 kJ • The capacity of the tank required • – 3.19 kJ • - 5.52 kJ • 1 bar • 53 bar • 226 bar • NOTA • The weight of crystals formed • 0.9901 • 0.8305 • The weight of crystals obtained neglecting • 0.9270 • 0.8623 the loss of water by evaporation • 4.7 kJ • 4.16 kJ • The composition of the solution • 3.69 kJ • 4.05 kJ • 2555.35 • 1985.72 cm3/mol cm3/mol LINKED 9 - 10 • 2320.09 • 1994.10 A batch of 1000 kg of KCl is cm3/mol cm3/mol dissolved in sufficient water to make a saturated solution at 363 K • Soybean seeds are extracted with (solubility is 35 wt% KCl in water). hexane in batch extractors. The The solution is cooled to 293 K, at flaked seeds contain 20% oil, which its solubility is 25.4 wt%. 68% solids and 12% moisture. At • What is the weight of water required for the end of the extraction process, solution and the weight of crystals of KCl the cake is separated from the obtained? hexane-oil mixture. The cake analysis yields 0.8% oil, 88% solids, and 11.2% moisture. Find • Number of gram equivalent of the percentage recovery of oil. solute dissolved in one litre of (63) solution is called its • 0.9868 • 0.04331 • molality • molarity • 0.7654 • 0.02560 • formality • normality
• Oil is extracted from seeds by • Refluxing of part of the distillate in a
leaching with organic solvents. fractionating column is a 'recycling Soybean seeds containing 20% oil, operation', aimed primarily at 65% inert solids and 15% water are • heat • product leached with hexane and after conservatio enrichment. extraction the solid residue is n. removed from the solution of oil in • yield • NOTA hexane. The residue analyzed 1.0% enhanceme oil, 88% inert cake and 11% water. nt. What percent of oil in the seeds is recovered?(62) • 539.40 • 446.23 3 cm /mol cm3/mol • 134.0 • 78.0 3 cm /mol cm3/mol
• The evaporation of aqueous
solution of sugar causes its molarity to • increase • decrease • remains • A or B unchanged
• The rate of material __________ is
zero in case of a steady state system. • input • accumulatio n • production • generation
• Volume percent for gases is equal
to the • weight • mole percent. percent • weight • mole percent only percent for ideal only for gases ideal gases