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A plant installed a scrubber to reduce sulphur from fuel containing sulphur but negligible nitrogen. The scrubber was 90% effective at reducing sulphur and treated with caustic soda, producing 980 kg of bisulphate. This information is used to calculate the amount of original sulphur, caustic soda used, and SO2 produced. A second document provides information about ethanol production from sugar cane, including fermentation rates and efficiencies, to calculate the mass flow rates of ethanol solution, syrup entering the fermenter, and cane juice feed.

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A plant installed a scrubber to reduce sulphur from fuel containing sulphur but negligible nitrogen. The scrubber was 90% effective at reducing sulphur and treated with caustic soda, producing 980 kg of bisulphate. This information is used to calculate the amount of original sulphur, caustic soda used, and SO2 produced. A second document provides information about ethanol production from sugar cane, including fermentation rates and efficiencies, to calculate the mass flow rates of ethanol solution, syrup entering the fermenter, and cane juice feed.

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ChE-Cal (November 2016): Your plant has a furnace that uses a fuel that contains sulphur and negligible

amount

of nitrogen. A scrubber with 90% sulphur reductance was installed. The water scrubber was treated with caustic

soda producing bisulphate.

1. What is the amount of sulphur in the feed if 980 kg of bisulphate was produced?

a) 301.5 b) 305.1 c) 105.3 d) 501.3

2. How much caustic soda was used?

a) 379.6 b) 367.6 c) 397.9 d) 376.6

3. How much SO2 was produced?

a) 76 b) 67 c) 60.7 d) 70.6

[ChE Boards April 2014] From sugar cane, ethanol is commercially produced at a rate of 100000 L/day (99.5%

v/v). From here, fermentation occurs at a rate of 0.511 kg ethanol per kilogram of fermentable sugar. If the syrup

is 53% fermentable sugar and cane juice is 25% syrup with distillation and fermentation being 99% and 90%

efficient, respectively, calculate the following:

1. mass flowrate of the ethanol solution produced

a) 176.32 MT/day b) 1302.54 MT/day c) 322.38 MT/day d) 78.58 MT/day

2. mass flowrate of the syrup entering the fermenter

a) 176.32 MT/day b) 1302.54 MT/day c) 322.38 MT/day d) 78.58 MT/day

3. mass flowrate of the cane juice feed

a. 176.32 MT/day b. 1302.54 MT/day c. 322.38 MT/day d. 78.58 MT/day

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