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    The document presents three problems involving chemical reaction processes. The first problem involves calculating species amounts and heating/cooling requirements for a reactor producing ethanol. The second examines combustion of natural gas and heat transfer in a preheater. The third involves material and energy balancing of a methanol synthesis process from a flowchart. The problems require applying concepts like conversion, yield, heating value, heat of formation to solve for unknown amounts and properties.

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    The document presents three problems involving chemical reaction processes. The first problem involves calculating species amounts and heating/cooling requirements for a reactor producing ethanol. The second examines combustion of natural gas and heat transfer in a preheater. The third involves material and energy balancing of a methanol synthesis process from a flowchart. The problems require applying concepts like conversion, yield, heating value, heat of formation to solve for unknown amounts and properties.

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    The document presents three problems involving chemical reaction processes. The first problem involves calculating species amounts and heating/cooling requirements for a reactor producing ethanol. The second examines combustion of natural gas and heat transfer in a preheater. The third involves material and energy balancing of a methanol synthesis process from a flowchart. The problems require applying concepts like conversion, yield, heating value, heat of formation to solve for unknown amounts and properties.

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    The document presents three problems involving chemical reaction processes. The first problem involves calculating species amounts and heating/cooling requirements for a reactor producing ethanol. The second examines combustion of natural gas and heat transfer in a preheater. The third involves material and energy balancing of a methanol synthesis process from a flowchart. The problems require applying concepts like conversion, yield, heating value, heat of formation to solve for unknown amounts and properties.

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    The text discusses ethanol production via hydration of ethylene and several steps to calculate species amounts and heating/cooling requirements. It also discusses a process for methanol production from CO2 and H2 with material and energy balance calculations.

    The main reactions discussed are the hydration of ethylene to produce ethanol, and the undesired side reaction that converts some ethanol to diethyl ether.

    Some of the steps involved in the methanol production process discussed are: feeding CO2, H2 and N2 into a reactor, producing a gas and liquid product, separating the products into methanol, water and purge streams, and recycling some gas.

    1.

    Ethanol is produced commercially by the hydration of ethylene: C2H4 (g) + H2O (v) C2H5OH (v);
    Some of the product is converted to diethyl ether in the undesired side reaction:
    2 C2H5OH (v) (C2H5)2O (v) + H2O (v)
    The combined feed to the reactor contains 53.7 mole% C2H4, 36.7% H2O, and the balance N2 which
    enters the reactor at 310oC. The reactor operates isothermally at 310oC. An ethylene conversion of 5%
    is achieved, and the yield of methanol (moles ethanol produced/mole ethylene consumed) is 0.90.
    a) Assuming 1 mol of feed to the reactor as basis, calculate the molar amount of each species in
    reactor output stream.
    [5]
    b) Calculate the reactor heating or cooling requirement in kJ/mol feed. Also, write down the
    assumptions involved, if any. Use heat of formation method.
    [11]
    c) Briefly state what would have been different in your calculations if you take molecular species at
    [2]
    25oC as reference in part (b).
    d) Note that the reactor is designed to yield low conversion of ethylene. If same conversion is to be
    maintained, what processing step (or steps) would probably follow the reactor in a commercial
    implementation of this process?
    [2]
    Data for diethyl Ether:

    H 272.8 kJ/mol for the liquid,

    H v 26.05 kJ/mol (assume independent of T)


    c p (kJ/mol. C) 0.8945 40.33 105 T ( C) 2.244 107 T 2
    2. A natural gas containing 95 mole% methane and the balance ethane is burned with 20.0% excess air.
    The stack gas which contains no unburned hydrocarbons or CO, leaves the furnace at 900oC and 1.2
    atm and passes through a well insulated pre-heater (heat exchanger). The air on its way to the
    furnace also passes through pre-heater, entering it at 20oC and leaving it at 245oC.
    a. Taking as a basis 100mol/s of natural gas fed to the furnace, calculate the required molar flow
    rate of air (with individual flow of oxygen and nitrogen) fed to the furnace and the molar flow
    rate and composition of the stack gas.
    [8]
    b. Calculate the rate of heat transfer Q in the pre-heater, and the temperature at which the stack gas
    leaves the pre-heater.
    c. What would Q be if the actual feed rate of natural gas were 350 SCMH?

    [9.5]
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    3. A proposed method for producing methanol is to react CO2 with H2: CO2 + 3H2 CH3OH + H2O.
    The flowchart for the process is shown below. Assume that gross feed enters the reactor in the
    stoichiometric quantities needed for the reaction. Also 0.5% N2 flows in with the fresh feed and
    single pass conversion in reactor is 57%. The concentration of N2 in the gross feed into the reactor
    is 2% and 1 kmol/h CO2 is present in the feed to the reactor.
    a. Draw a completely labeled flowchart for the process and determine the sequence in which
    material balance problem must be solved for the given flowchart.
    [4+6]
    b. Calculate all the unknown compositions and flow-rates.
    [7]
    c. The heat removed from the entire system is 70570 kJ/h. Determine the temperature of methanol
    and water stream emerging out of the separation unit. Use heat of formation method.
    [13]

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