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This document provides a tutorial for a course on material and design of process equipment. It includes 7 questions asking students to identify suitable materials of construction for various chemical process equipment based on operating conditions and chemical compatibility. Students are asked to select appropriate materials for pipes, tanks, distillation columns, reactors, heat exchangers and more, handling chemicals such as sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, toluene, and acrylic acid. They are also asked to describe 5 significant consequences of corrosion in chemical plants.

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Tutorial Materials Selection

This document provides a tutorial for a course on material and design of process equipment. It includes 7 questions asking students to identify suitable materials of construction for various chemical process equipment based on operating conditions and chemical compatibility. Students are asked to select appropriate materials for pipes, tanks, distillation columns, reactors, heat exchangers and more, handling chemicals such as sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, toluene, and acrylic acid. They are also asked to describe 5 significant consequences of corrosion in chemical plants.

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CPE 601

MATERIAL AND DESIGN OF PROCESS EQUIPMENT


TUTORIAL
SEMESTER MARCH 2020

Based on notes in i-learn, the videos and the corrosion charts in Google Drive,
please answer the following questions. Bear in mind that the corrosion chart
(chemical compatibility chart) is a guide on choosing the right material of
construction for your vessel/reactor/heat exchanger/distillation tower. It will
not be provided in the examination but you need to have a general view on
that.

1. Choose a suitable material of construction for the following duties:


a) 98 per cent w/w sulphuric acid at 70 oC.
b) 5 per cent w/w sulphuric acid at 30 oC.
c) 30 per cent w/w hydrochloric acid at 50 oC.
d) 5 per cent aqueous sodium hydroxide solution at 30 oC.
e) Concentrated aqueous sodium hydroxide solution at 50 oC.
f) 5 per cent w/w nitric acid at 30 oC.
g) Boiling concentrated nitric acid.
h) 10 per cent w/w sodium chloride solution.
i) 5 per cent w/w solution of cuprous chloride in hydrochloric acid.
j) 10 per cent w/w hydrofluoric acid.
In each case, select the material for a 50 mm pipe operating at approximately 2
bar pressure. Provide the justifications.
2. Suggest suitable materials of construction for the following applications and
provide justifications.
a) A 10,000 m3 storage tank for toluene.
b) A 5.0 m3 tank for storing a 30% w/w aqueous solution of sodium chloride.
c) A 2 m diameter, 20 m high distillation column, distilling acrylonitrile.
d) A 100 m3 storage tank for strong nitric acid.
e) A 500 m3 aqueous waste hold-up tank. The wastewater pH can vary from 1 to
12. The wastewater will also contain traces of organic material.
f) A packed absorption column 0.5 m diameter, 3 m high, absorbing gaseous
hydrochloric acid into water. The column will operate at essentially atmospheric
pressure.
3. Aniline is manufactured by the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene in a fluidised bed
reactor. The reactor operates at 250 oC and 20 bar. The reactor vessel is
approximately 3 m diameter and 9 m high. Suggest suitable materials of
construction for this reactor and provide justifications.
4. Methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) is manufactured by the dehydrogenation of 2-butanol
using a shell and tube type reactor. Flue gases are used for heating and pass
though the tubes. The flue gases will contain traces of sulphur dioxide. The
reaction products include hydrogen. The reaction takes place in the shell at a
pressure of 3 bar and temperature of 500oC.
Select suitable materials for the tubes and shell and provide justifications.
5. In the manufacture of aniline by the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene, the off-gases
from the reactor are cooled and the products and unreacted nitrobenzene
condensed in a shell and tube exchanger. A typical composition of the condensate
is, kmol/h: aniline 950, cyclo-hexylamine 10, water 1920, nitrobenzene 40.
The gases enter the condenser at 230 oC and leave at 50 oC. The cooling water
enters the tubes at 20 oC and leaves at 50 oC.
Suggest suitable materials of construction for the shell and the tubes and provide
justifications.
6. In the production of acrylic acid, a special attention has to be paid to its handling
due to its reactive characteristic and if it goes through polymerization process, a
large amount of heat will be released. Suggest and justify two (2) types of material
of construction that are suitable to be used in all equipment involved during the
production of acrylic acid.
7. Corrosion may cause severe effect to metals, chemical plant and environment.
Describe in details five (5) significant consequences of corrosion in the chemical
plant.

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