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    This document provides sample exercises for a chemical engineering lab, including: 1) Calculations related to furnace flue gas analysis and fuel compositions. 2) A process diagram and calculations for a methanol synthesis process, involving reforming of methane to hydrogen and carbon oxides, followed by methanol synthesis from hydrogen, carbon dioxide and water. 3) The answers to the calculations include mole percentages of fuel compositions, moles of hydrogen lost in purging and carbon dioxide makeup required, and amount and concentration of methanol produced.

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    ChE 101 – Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering 2nd Semester AY 2016-2017

    LAB 09 SUGGESTED EXERCISES

    1. ANIME Petrochemicals operates one of its furnaces on natural gas and another on oil (mole natural gas/mass
    fuel oil = 1 lbmol/10 lb). Analysis of the natural gas shows 96% CH4, 2% C2H2, and 2% H2. The oil is found to
    contain 88% carbon, the rest being hydrogen (reported as molecular hydrogen) and sulfur. The flue gases
    from both furnaces enter the same stack, and an Orsat analysis of this combined flue gas shows 8.36% CO 2,
    0.53% CO, 7.66% O2, and 83.45% N2 on an SO2-free basis. Calculate the following:

    a) Percentage of the total carbon burned which comes from the oil
    b) Complete analysis of the oil

    2. A high-grade petroleum fuel oil containing 5.2% S is being burned in a furnace. The flue is analyzed carefully
    over mercury without prior removal of SO2 (which is therefore reported along with the SO2), showing 13.9%
    CO2 (+ SO2), 0.4% CO, 0.1% H2, 2.4% O2, and 83.2% inerts. What is the analysis of the fuel? Assume that the
    fuel contains carbon, hydrogen, and sulfur only.

    3. A process for methanol synthesis is shown in the figure below. The pertinent chemical reactions involved are:

    CH 4  H 2O  CO2  H 2 (main reformer reaction)


    CH 4  H 2O  CO  H 2 (reformer side reaction)
    CO  O2  CO2 (CO converter reaction)
    CO2  H 2  CH 3OH  H 2O (methanol synthesis reaction)

    Ten percent excess steam, based on


    the main reformer reaction, is fed to
    the reformer, and conversion of
    methane is 100%, with a 90% yield of
    CO2. Conversion in the methanol
    reactor is 55% on one pass through the
    reactor.

    A stoichiometric quantity of oxygen is


    fed to the CO converter, and the CO is
    completely converted to CO2.
    Additional makeup CO2 is then
    introduced to establish a 3:1 ratio of
    H2 to CO2 in the feed stream to the
    methanol reactor.

    The methanol reactor effluent is cooled to condense all the methanol and water, with the noncondensable
    gases recycled to the methanol reactor feed. The H2/CO2 ratio in the recycle stream is also 3:1.

    Because the methane contains 1% nitrogen as an impurity, a portion of the recycle stream must be purged out
    to prevent the accumulation of inerts. The purge stream analyzes 5% nitrogen.

    On the basis of 100 mol of methane feed (including N2), calculate the:
    a) Moles of H2 lost in the purge
    b) Moles of makeup CO2 required
    c) Recycle to purge ratio
    d) Amount (in kg) and strength (in weight percent) of methanol solution produced
    ChE 101 – Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering 2nd Semester AY 2016-2017
    LAB 09 SUGGESTED EXERCISES

    ANSWER KEY:

    1.
    a) 42.29%
    b)
    component mass %
    C 88.00
    H2 5.99
    S 6.01
    total 100.00

    2.
    component mass %
    C 83.57
    H 11.23
    S 5.20
    total 100.00

    3.
    a) 14.25 mol H2
    b) 29.7 mol CO2
    c) 20.35
    d) 6.732 kg methanol solution; 58.92%

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