This document provides 10 homework problems related to chemical process calculations involving concepts like heat of reaction, energy balances, vapor pressure, enthalpy, psychrometrics, and more. Students are asked to use data provided in class lectures and appendices to calculate various thermodynamic properties and determine unknown values. The problems cover a range of calculation types including using steam tables, determining heat transfer rates, and estimating humidity properties from psychrometric charts.
This document provides 10 homework problems related to chemical process calculations involving concepts like heat of reaction, energy balances, vapor pressure, enthalpy, psychrometrics, and more. Students are asked to use data provided in class lectures and appendices to calculate various thermodynamic properties and determine unknown values. The problems cover a range of calculation types including using steam tables, determining heat transfer rates, and estimating humidity properties from psychrometric charts.
This document provides 10 homework problems related to chemical process calculations involving concepts like heat of reaction, energy balances, vapor pressure, enthalpy, psychrometrics, and more. Students are asked to use data provided in class lectures and appendices to calculate various thermodynamic properties and determine unknown values. The problems cover a range of calculation types including using steam tables, determining heat transfer rates, and estimating humidity properties from psychrometric charts.
This document provides 10 homework problems related to chemical process calculations involving concepts like heat of reaction, energy balances, vapor pressure, enthalpy, psychrometrics, and more. Students are asked to use data provided in class lectures and appendices to calculate various thermodynamic properties and determine unknown values. The problems cover a range of calculation types including using steam tables, determining heat transfer rates, and estimating humidity properties from psychrometric charts.
Not only answers but also how to get to the answers should be shown.
Problem 1) Using the steam table that was given in class,
(1.1) Determine the vapor pressure of water at 50oF.
(1.2) Compare the vapor pressure from the steam table with that calculated from the Antoine equation. (1.3) Determine specific volume, specific internal energy, and specific enthalpy for saturated steam at 50oF. (1.4) Show that the difference between specific internal energy and specific enthalpy can be calculated from the relationship, H = U + PV
Problem 2) The heat capacity of carbon dioxide gas in the temperature range 0 to 1500 K is Cp = 2.675 x 104 + 42.27 T – 1.425 x 10-2 T2. (J Kg mol-1 K-1) Calculate the amount of heat in KJ that is required to heat 1 kg of carbon dioxide gas from 30oC to 200oC in an open system.
Problem 3) For 10 min 10 lb of water at 40oF and 6 lb of steam at 250oF and 20 psia were introduced into a 125 ft3 insulated vessel that initially contains 4 lb of water at 32oF.
(3.1) Set up the energy balance equation.
(3.2) Calculate the difference in internal energy of the contents in the vessel between initial and final states.
Problem 4) There is a water tank heated by an electrical heater. Initially, the amount of water in the tank was 10 kg and the tank was at 20oC. Calculate the amount of electrical energy that must be supplied to the tank to heat the water up to 60oC. Assume that the tank is perfectly insulated and neglect the heat content of the tank.
Problem 5) 1000 kg/h of ethanol vapor at 1 atm and 100 oC is condensed in a heat exchanger to liquid ethanol at 40oC by using a cooling water at 25oC. The temperature of the cooling water leaving the exchanger is 35oC. Calculate the mass flow rate of the cooling water. The latent of ethanol is 38.56 kJ/mol, Cp of ethanol vapor is represented by R(3.518 + 20.0 x 10-3 T – 6.0 x 10-6 T2), and Cp of liquid ethanol is represented by R(33.866 – 172.6 x 10-3 T + 349. 17 x 10-6 T2), where R is gas constant and T in Kelvin. Cp of liquid water is represented by R(8.712 + 1.25 x 10-3 T -0.18 x 10-6 T2).
Problem 6) Consider a gas-phase production of methanol from CO and H2 at 1 atm and 700 K: CO(g) + 2H2(g) = CH3OH(g). (6.1) Calculate the heat of reaction at 25oC. (6.2) Calculate the heat of reaction at 700 K.
Use the following data:
Cp, (molar heat capacity), J/(mol K) = a +bT +cT2 +dT3 species a b c d CO 3.087x10 -1.285x10-2 2.789x10-5 -1.272x10-8 H2 2.714x10 9.274x10-3 -1.381x10-5 7.645x10-9 CH3OH 2.115x10 7.092x10-2 2.587x10-5 -2.852x10-8
Problem 7) 100 g moles/s of CO at 500oC is completely burned with 600 g moles/s of air which is at 100oC. Refer to Appendix C in Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics by Smith et al. in the library for heat capacities (Cp) of components involved in the reaction.
(7.1) Calculate the adiabatic product gas temperature.
(7.2) The product gases leave at 400oC. What is the heat transfer to or from the system in kilo joules per second?
Problem 8) 100 g moles of CH4(g) at 100oC is reacted with 250 g moles of O2(g) at 100oC to produce CO2(g) and H2O(g) in an adiabatic reactor.
(8.1) Calculate enthalpy changes associated with conversion of the reactants into their constituent elements at 25oC. (8.2) Calculate enthalpy changes associated with formation of the products as a function of temperature. (8.3) By using the energy balance equation that the sum of the enthalpy changes in (8.1) and the enthalpy changes in (8.2) equals zero for adiabatic reaction, determine the temperature of the product gas.
𝐶, = 𝐴 + 𝐵𝑇 + 𝐶𝑇 + 𝐷𝑇 𝑅 species 𝐶 , A 103 x B 106 x C 10-5 x D 𝑎𝑡 25 𝐶 𝑅 CO2 4.467 5.457 1.045 -1.157 O2 3.535 3.639 0.506 -0.227 CH4 4.217 1.702 9.081 -2.164 H2O 4.038 3.470 1.450 0.121
Problem 9) Use the psychrometric chart to estimate (1) the absolute humidity, wet-bulb temperature, humid volume, and specific enthalpy of humid air at 40 oC, 1 atm, and 10% relative humidity, and (2) the amount of water in 150 m3 of air at these conditions.
Problem 10) Air at 80 oF and 80% relative humidity is cooled to 60 oF at a constant pressure of 1 atm. Use the psychrometric chart to calculate the fraction of the water that condenses and the rate at which heat must be removed to deliver 1000 ft3/min of humid air at the initial condition.
