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    Laboratory and Homework Assignment 9

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    This document provides assignments for a chemical engineering laboratory and homework. [1] The laboratory assignment involves using Matlab to simulate an ammonia production process with recycle and determine stream flows and compositions using successive substitution and Wegstein's method. [2] The homework assignment involves simulating an ethyl chloride production process with recycle in Matlab and ASPEN to determine the optimal tear stream using successive substitution and Wegstein's method. [3] Students are required to provide a step-by-step analysis with justifications to receive credit for the homework problem.

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    This document provides assignments for a chemical engineering laboratory and homework. [1] The laboratory assignment involves using Matlab to simulate an ammonia production process with recycle and determine stream flows and compositions using successive substitution and Wegstein's method. [2] The homework assignment involves simulating an ethyl chloride production process with recycle in Matlab and ASPEN to determine the optimal tear stream using successive substitution and Wegstein's method. [3] Students are required to provide a step-by-step analysis with justifications to receive credit for the homework problem.

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    This document provides assignments for a chemical engineering laboratory and homework. [1] The laboratory assignment involves using Matlab to simulate an ammonia production process with recycle and determine stream flows and compositions using successive substitution and Wegstein's method. [2] The homework assignment involves simulating an ethyl chloride production process with recycle in Matlab and ASPEN to determine the optimal tear stream using successive substitution and Wegstein's method. [3] Students are required to provide a step-by-step analysis with justifications to receive credit for the homework problem.

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    ChE352A: Prof.

    Vishal Agarwal 1

    Laboratory and Homework Assignment 9

    Reading Assignment

    1. ”Chapter 5: Mass Balances with Recycle Streams” from Finlayson, Bruce A. Introduction to chemical
    engineering computing. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

    2. ”Chapter 7: Process Simulation” from Finlayson, Bruce A. Introduction to chemical engineering


    computing. John Wiley & Sons, 2012.

    Laboratory Assignment (Due after laboratory session)

    1. In this exercise we will understand convergence algorithms using ammonia manufacture process as
    shown in Figure 1. The process takes hydrogen and nitrogen (in a 3:1 ratio) to make ammonia. The
    flow rates of nitrogen and hydrogen into the process are 100 and 300 mol per unit time, respectively,
    but there is also 1 mole per unit time of carbon dioxide. The reactor is limited by equilibrium
    and 25 mol% of N2 is converted per pass. A purge stream is added to the recycle stream to stop
    accumulation of carbon dioxide in the process. The purge stream is 1 mol% of the recycle stream.
    This exercise needs to be done in Matlab.

    (a) [25 points] Tear stream 7 and compute converged composition and flow rates of each stream
    using method of successive substitution. Do you achieve convergence, if yes in how many
    steps. If no, why?
    (b) [25 points] Tear stream 2 and compute converged composition and flow rates of each stream
    using Wegstein’s method. Comment on the convergence of this method.

    The K-values for flash separation are: nitrogen, 4.8; hydrogen, 70; ammonia 0.051; carbon dioxide,
    0.32. The equilibrium equation for the reactor is given by:

    N2 + 3H2  NH3 (1)

    [Hint:] You need to solve Rachford-Rice equations for the flash separation.

    Figure 1: Ammonia manufacture process.

    Homework Assignment (Due Date: 10th Oct. 2018, 2:00pm)

    1. [50 points] Ethyl chloride is manufactured in an integrated process; see Figure 2. Ethane reacts with
    chlorine to make ethyl chloride and hydrogen chloride, and ethylene reacts with hydrogen chloride
    to form ethyl chloride.

    C2 H6 + Cl2  C2 H5 Cl + HCl (2)


    C2 H4 + HCl  C2 H5 Cl (3)

    The process is fed with two streams: Chlorine (1) and ethane/ethylene (2). The ethane and ethy-
    lene have the same molar flow rate, and the ratio of chlorine to ethane plus ethylene is 1.5. The
    ChE352A: Prof. Vishal Agarwal 2

    ethane/ethylene stream also contains 1.5 percent carbon dioxide. The feed streams are mixed with
    an ethylene recycle stream and go to the first reactor (chlorination reactor) where ethane reacts with
    chlorine with a 95% conversion per pass. The product stream (4) is cooled and ethyl chloride is
    condensed and separated. Assume that all the ethane and ethyl chloride go out in the condensate
    stream. The gases go to another reactor (hydro-chlorination reactor) where the reaction with ethy-
    lene takes place with a 50 % conversion per pass. The product stream (7) is cooled to condense ethyl
    chloride, and the gases (predominately ethylene and chlorine) are recycled. A purge or bleed stream
    (11) takes off a fraction of the recycle stream (use 1 percent). You need to do this exercise in Matlab.
    Do you require to tear a stream for sequential modular approach. If yes, what are the options to tear
    the stream? Determine the most efficient tear stream using both successive substitution and Weg-
    stein’s method. Now perform this exercise in ASPEN. The analysis should be presented in a word
    file. To get any points for this problem, you should elaborate step-by-step procedure with proper
    justifications of your calculations.

    Figure 1: Ethyl chloride manufacture process.

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