Material Balance without Reaction

A liquid adhesive which is used to make laminated boards consist of a polymer dissolved in a solvent. The amount of polymer in the solution has to be carefully controlled for this application. When the supplier of the adhesive receives an order of 3000kg, an adhesive solution containing 13wt% polymer all it has on hand is1) 500kg of a 10wt% solution (2) a very large quantity of a 20wt % solution, and 3 pure solvent.

Calculate the weight of each of the three stocks thats must be blended together to fill the order. Use all of the 10% solution.
(mass fr) polymer solvent A= 0.1 0.9 500 kg

B kg (mass fr) polymer solvent

Blender
0.2 0.8

P=

3000 kg (mass fr) polymer solvent

0.13 0.87

C kg
(mass fr) pure solv. 1

Overall Balance:
Input = Output A + 500 + B + B B C + + = C = C = 2500 -----(eq.1) P 3000

Overall Polymer Balance:

500 0.2 B x x = 0.1 + B = 1700 kg B 340 x 0.2 = 3000 x 0.13

Substituting this value in equation 1; C = 800 kg

Material Balance Around Separator

A solution composed of 50% ethanol (EtOH), 10% methanol (MeOH), and40% H 2O is fed at the rate of 100kg/hr into a separator that produce one stream at the rate of 60kg/hr with a composition of 80% EtOH, 15% MeOH and 5% H 2O , and a second stream of unknown composition. Calculate the composition in % of three compounds in the unknown stream and its flow rate in kg/hr. W = ? kg/hr X1 = ? X2 = ? 1-X1-X2 = ? F= (mass fr) EtOH MeOH H2O 100 kg/hr 0.5 0.1 0.4

P= (mass fr) EtOH MeOH H2O

60 kg/hr 0.8 0.15 0.05

Overall Balance:
Input = Output F = 100 = W = W W + + 40 kg/hr P 60

Overall EtOH Balance:

100 40 X1 X1 x x = = 0.5 X1 0.05 5% = = X1 2 x 40 + 60 x 0.8

Oveall MeOH Balance:

100 X2 X2 X2 x x = = 0.1 40 0.025 2.5 % = = X2 1 x 40 + 60 x 0.15

Mass Fraction of H2O:

1 - X1 - X2 = 0.925

1 - X1 - X2

92.5 %

Material Balance on Multiple Unit

A triple effect evaporator is designed to reduce H2O from an incoming brine (NaCl+H2O) stream from 25wt% to 3wt%. If the evaporator unit is to produce 14670lb/hr of NaCl (along with 3% H2O),determine a) feed rate of brine in lb/hr b) the H2O removed from brine in each
V1 BRINE H2O V2 H2O V3 H2O

F (mass fr) Nacl H2O

lb/hr

I
0.25 0.75 P1
P2

II

III

P3

14670 lb/hr

(mass fr) Nacl H2O

0.33 0.67

(mass fr) Nacl H2O

0.5 0.5

(mass fr) Nacl H2O

0.97 0.03

Overall Mass Balance:

F = V1 + V2 + V3 +

14670 ------ eq.1

Overall NaCl Balance:

F F x =

0.25 = 56919.6 lb/hr

14670

0.97

NaCl Balance on Unit 1:

56919.6
P1 x =

0.25 = 43120.91 lb/hr

P1

0.33

H2O Balance on Unit 1:

56919.6
V1 x =

0.75 = 13798.69 lb/hr

V1

43120.91

0.67

NaCl Balance on Unit 2:

43120.91
P2 x =

0.33 = 28459.8 lb/hr

P2

0.5

H2O Balance on Unit 2:

43120.91
V2 x =

0.67 = 14661.11 lb/hr

V2

28459.8

0.5

Substituting the values of F, V1 and V2 in eq.1; V3 = 13789.8 lb/hr