for
SEPARATION PROCESS ENGINEERING.
Includes Mass Transfer Analysis
3rd Edition
(Formerly published as Equilibrium-Staged Separations)
by
Phillip C. Wankat
, SPE 3rd Edition Solution Manual Chapter 1
New Problems and new solutions are listed as new immediately after the solution number. These new
problems in chapter 1 are: 1A3, 1A4, 1B2-1B4, 1D1.
A2. Answers are in the text.
A3. New problem for 3rd edition. Answer is d.
B1. Everything except some food products has undergone some separation operations. Even the
water in bottles has been purified (either by reverse osmosis or by distillation).
B2. New problem for 3rd edition. Many homes have a water softener (ion exchange), or a filter, or a
carbon water “filter” (actually adsorption), or a reverse osmosis system.
B3. New problem for 3rd edition. For example: the lungs are a gas permeation system, the intestines
and kidney are liquid permeation or dialysis systems.
B4. New problem for 3rd edition. You probably used some of the following: chromatography,
crystallization, distillation, extraction, filtration and ultrafiltration.
D1. New problem for 3rd edition. Basis 1kmol feed.
.4 kmole E .4 MW 46 18.4 kg
10.8 kg
.6 kmol Water .6 MW 18
total 29.2 kg
Weight fraction ethanol = 18.4/29.2 = 0.630
Flow rate = (1500 kmol/hr)[(29.2kg)/(1 kmol)] = 43,800 kg/hr.
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, Chapter 2
New Problems and new solutions are listed as new immediately after the solution number. These new
problems are: 2A6, 2A9 to 2A16, 2C4, 2C8, 2C9, 2D1.g, 2.D4, 2D10, 2D13, 2D24 to 2D30, 2E1, 2F4,
2G4 to 2G6, 2H1 to 2H3.
2.A1. Feed to flash drum is a liquid at high pressure. At this pressure its enthalpy can be calculated
as a liquid. eg. h TF,Phigh c p LIQ TF Tref . When pressure is dropped the mixture is above
its bubble point and is a two-phase mixture (It “flashes”). In the flash mixture enthalpy is
unchanged but temperature changes. Feed location cannot be found from T F and z on the
graph because equilibrium data is at a lower pressure on the graph used for this calculation.
2.A2. Yes.
2.A4.
1.0
Equilibrium
yw zw = 0.965
(pure water)
Flash
.5 operating
line
2.A4
0
0 .5 xw 1.0
2.A6. New Problem. In a flash drum separating a multicomponent mixture, raising the pressure will:
i. Decrease the drum diameter and decrease the relative volatilities. Answer is i.
2.A8. a. K increases as T increases
b. K decreases as P increases
c. K stays same as mole fraction changes (T, p constant)
-Assumption is no concentration effect in DePriester charts
d. K decreases as molecular weight increases
2.A9. New Problem. The answer is 0.22
2.A10. New Problem. The answer is b.
2.A11. New Problem. The answer is c.
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