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13-solving on Design of packed tower-15-02-2025

The document outlines various scenarios involving the absorption of different gases using solvents in packed towers and scrubbers, detailing calculations for minimum solvent rates, number of theoretical stages, and concentrations of absorbed substances. It includes specific equilibrium relations and operational conditions for each case, such as gas flow rates, temperatures, and pressures. The calculations are aimed at optimizing the removal of pollutants like cyclohexane, NH3, CS2, and H2S from gas mixtures.

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13-solving on Design of packed tower-15-02-2025

The document outlines various scenarios involving the absorption of different gases using solvents in packed towers and scrubbers, detailing calculations for minimum solvent rates, number of theoretical stages, and concentrations of absorbed substances. It includes specific equilibrium relations and operational conditions for each case, such as gas flow rates, temperatures, and pressures. The calculations are aimed at optimizing the removal of pollutants like cyclohexane, NH3, CS2, and H2S from gas mixtures.

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In a petrochemical plant, a gas containing 4 % cyclohexane and 96% inerts has to be treated
with non-volatile absorption oil in a packed tower. It is required to remove 98% of the
cyclohexane of the feed gas. The feed solvent is free from cyclohexane. If the feed gas rate
is 80kmol/hr, calculate the minimum solvent rate. The equilibrium relation is given as
0.2 X
Y=
1 + 0.8 X
2. An air-NH3 mixture containing 20 %( mole) NH3 is being treated with water in a packed
tower to recover NH3. Incoming gas rate=1000kg/h.m2. Water used is 1.5 times the
minimum. The temperature is 35˚C and the pressure is 1 atm. The Equilibrium relation is
y*=0.746x, where x and y are mole fractions. Find the NTU for removing 95%NH 3 in the
feed.
3. NH3 is absorbed from a gas using water in a scrubber under atmospheric pressure. The
initial NH3 content in the gas is 0.04( kmol/kmol of inert gas). The recovery of NH3 by
absorption is 90%.The water enters the tower free from NH3. Estimate (i) the
concentration of NH3 in the exit liquid if the actual water used is 1.5 times of the
minimum. (ii) the number of theoretical stages required.
X 0.005 0.01 0.0125 0.015 0.02 0.023
Y 0.0045 0.0102 0.0138 0.0183 0.0273 0.0327

Where X and Y are in mole ratios

.4. CS2-N2 mixture containing 7% CS2 is to be absorbed by using absorption oil. The gas
mixture enters at 24˚C and 1 atm at a rate of 0.4m3/s. The vapor content is to be brought down
to 0.5%. The oil enters free from CS2. Raoults law is valid. Determine:

(i) Minimum liquid/gas ratio


(ii) For a liquid/gas ratio of 1.5 times the minimum, determine the kgs of oil entering the
tower and the number of theoretical stages required.
Vapor pressure of CS2 =346mm Hg, Molecular weight of oil= 180

5. Gas from petroleum refinery has its concentration of H2S reduced from
0.03(kmolH2S/Kmol inert gas) to 1% of these value by scrubbing with a solvent in a
counter current tower at 27 ˚C and 1 atm. The equilibrium relation is Y*=2X, where X
and Y* are in mole ratios. Solvent enters free of H2S and leaves at a concentration of
0.013 kmolH2S/kmol of solvent. If the flow rate of incoming gas is 55.6kmol/hrm2,
calculate the height of absorber used if the entire resistance to mass transfer lies in gas
phase. Assume Kya=0.04 kmol/(m3 of tower volume .S . Δy)

6.A plate absorption column is used to reduce the concentration of a pollutant A in an air stream from
5.4mol% to 0.3% by counter – current scrubbing with solvent “S”. This solvent is fresh on entering
the top of column and the gas stream enters at the bottom of the column at a flow rate of 2.4 m3/s .The
column operation conditions are 293 K and 1 atmosphere.
Equilibrium data is given by

X(k mole A/k mole 0 0.005 0.010 0.020 0.030 0.040 0.045
S)
Y (k mole A/k mole 0 0.002 0.005 0.015 0.032 0.053 0.065
air)

If the actual fresh solvent flow rate is 1.1 times the minimum, estimate the number of ideal plates
needed

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