Академический Документы
Профессиональный Документы
Культура Документы
Homework 9 – Chapter 4
4
4.36
6 (a,b)
In thee production of a bean oil, beans contaaining 13.0 wtt% oil and 87.0% solids aree ground and fed to a stirrred tank (the
extra
actor) along w with a recycled stream of liiquid n‐hexan ne. The feed rratio is 3 kg hexane /kg beans. The grou und beans aree
suspeended in the liquid, and esssentially all o he beans is exxtracted into the hexane. TThe extractorr effluent
of the oil in th
passees to a filter. The filter cakke contains 75
5.0 wt% bean solids and th he balance beean oil and heexane, the latter two in thee
samee ratio in whicch they emerge from the eextractor. Thee filter cake iss discarded an nd the liquid filtrate is fed to a heated
evaporator in whiich the hexan d and the oil remains as a liquid. The oiil is stored in drums and sh
ne is vaporized hipped. The
hexane vapor is su ubsequently ccooled and co ondensed, an nd the liquid h
hexane condeensate is recyycled to the exxtractor.
a Draw and label a flowcchart of the p
a) process, do the degree‐of‐ffreedom anallysis, and writte in an efficient order thee
equationss you would ssolve to deterrmine all unkn nown stream variables, cirrcling the variiables for which you
would solve.
b Calculate the yield of b
b) bean oil produ uct (kg oil/kg beans fed), tthe required ffresh hexane feed (kg /kg beans
fed), and the recycle to
o fresh feed rratio (kg hexane recycled/kkg fresh feed.)
Tom Bertalan, Chrris Barnes, Yaang He, Jamess Robinson C
CHE@TomBer
rtalan.com