ASSIGNMENT NO # 01

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 2 (Ch.E-5)

Submitted To: Sir Fazeel Ahmed

Submitted by: Awais Feroz

Registration No: UW-18-Ch.E-BSC-005

Date of submission: 09 th
October, 2020

Department of Chemical Engineering

Wah Engineering College

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Q.No.1

Explain what a dew point is. Consider a gas mixture at 911 mmHg(1.21 bar) with 50 mol-%
benzene and 50 mol-% toluene.

What is the dewpoint temperature and what is the composition of the first liquid drop?

Solution:

The dew point of a vapor is the point where the vapor just begins to condense.

In the problem, pressure is given and we want to find the dew point temperature, which is how far
we must cool the vapor before it starts condensing. Since we have saturation, we have at the dew
point that,

Σixi = xA + xB = 1

Furthermore, from Raoult’s law,

yAp = xAp sat A (T) and yBp = xBp sat B (T).

Combining gives,

yAp p sat A (T) + yBp p sat B (T) | {z } xA+xB = 1 (1)

Here, yA = 0.5, yB = 0.5 and p = 911 mmHg are given, so there is only one unknown, which is the
temperature T. Some trial and error and interpolation is generally needed: For example, one may
plot xA + xB from (1) as a function of T and find where it crosess 1. However, in this case it seems like
T = 378.2K is very close to the correct answer, because we then get

0.5 · 911 1532 + 0.5 · 911 645 = 0.2973 + 0.7062

= 1.0035

which is close to 1. The corresponding liquid composition (in the first droplet) is (after dividing by
1.0035 to normalize):

xA = 0.2963

xB = 0.7037

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Q.NO.2

a) Q.1(5+5)Determine /Solve

a) A liquid mixture containing Methane, Ethane and n-Butane is evaporated at a

constant pressure of 760 mmHg.
Solve for the temperature of the liquid mixture for a feed which has the following
composition: 0.001 (methane), 0.458 (Ethane), 0.541 (n-Butane). Consider an accuracy of
1 °C.
Tipp: bubble-point.
b) The gas stream of a partial condenser has a composition in Methane, Ethane, n-
Butane of resp. 0.30, 0.69, 0.01. In the condenser there is a temperature of 230
K.Determine the pressure inside the condenser? Tipp: dew-point.

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