CHAPITRE 3

EXERCICE 3.15

Liquid toluene is flowing through a pipe at a rate of 175 m3 /h.

a/ What is the mass flow rate of this stream in kg/min?
b/ What is the molar flow rate in mol/s?
c/ In fact, the answer to part (a) is only an approximation that is almost certain to be slightly
in
error. What did you have to assume to obtain the answer?
EXERCICE 3.23
A mixture of methane and air is capable of being ignited only if the mole percent of methane
is between 5% and 15%. A mixture containing 9.0 mole% methane in air flowing at a rate of
700. kg/h is to be diluted with pure air to reduce the methane concentration to the lower
flammability limit.
Calculate the required flow rate of air in mol/h and the percent by mass of oxygen in the
product gas. (Note: Air may be taken to consist of 21 mole% O2 and 79% N2 and to have an
average molecular weight of 29.0.)

CHAPITRE 4
EXERCICE 4.9
Strawberries contain about 15 wt% solids and 85 wt% water. To make strawberry jam,
crushed
strawberries and sugar are mixed in a 45:55 mass ratio, and the mixture is heated to evaporate
water until the residue contains one-third water by mass.
a/ Draw and label a flowchart of this process.
b/ Do the degree-of-freedom analysis and show that the system has zero degrees of freedom
(i.e ,the number of unknown process variables equals the number of equations relating them).
If you have too many unknowns, think about what you might have forgotten to do.
c/ Calculate how many pounds of strawberries are needed to make a pound of jam.

EXERCICE 4.10
Three hundred gallons of a mixture containing 75.0 wt% ethanol (ethyl alcohol) and 25%
water (mixture specific gravity =0.877) and a quantity of a 40.0 wt% ethanol–60% water
mixture (SG=0.952) are blended to produce a mixture containing 60.0wt% ethanol. The
object of this problem is to determine V40, the required volume of the 40% mixture.
a/ Draw and label a flowchart of the mixing process and do the degree-of-freedom analysis.
b/ Calculate V40 .

CHAPITRE 5
EXCICE 5.44
Most of the concrete used in the construction of buildings, roads, dams, and bridges is made
from porland cement, a substance obtained by pulverizing the hard, granular residue ( clinker)
from the roasting of a mixture of clay and limestone and adding other materials to modify the
setting properties of the cement and the mechanical properties of the concrete.The charge to a
portland cement rotary kiln contains 17% of a dried building clay (72 wt% SiO3 , 16% Al2O3 ,
7% Fe2O3 , 1.7% K2O, 3.3%Na2O) and 83% limestone (95 wt% CaCO3 , 5%impurities). When
the solid temperature reaches about 9000C, calcination of the limestone to lime (CaO) and
carbon dioxide occurs. As the temperature continues to rise to about 1450 C, the lime reacts
with the minerals in the clay to form such compounds as 3 CaO .SiO2 , 3 CaO. Al2O3 , and 4
CaO. .Al2O3 .Fe2O3. The flow rate of CO2 from the kiln is 1350 m /h at 10000C and 1 atm.
Calculate the feed rates of clay and limestone (kg/h) and the weight percent of Fe2O3 in the
final cement.

EXERCICE 5.45
The ultimate analysis of aNo. 4 fuel oil is 86.47 wt% carbon, 11.65% hydrogen, 1.35% sulfur,
and the balance noncombustible inerts. This oil is burned in a steam-generating furnace with
15% excess air.The air is preheated to 175 0C and enters the furnace at a gauge pressure of
180 mm Hg. The sulfur and hydrogen in the fuel are completely oxidized to SO and H2O; 5%
of the carbon is oxidized to CO2, and the balance forms CO2 .
a/ Calculate the feed ratio (m air)/(kg oil).
b/ Calculate the mole fractions (dry basis) and the ppm (parts per million on a wet basis, or
moles contained in 106 moles of the wet stack gas) of the stack gas species that might be
considered environmental hazards contained in 10 moles of the wet stack gas) of the stack gas
species that might be considered environmental hazards.