CH 2104 – HEAT AND MASS TRANSFR

TUTORIAL 1

1. Liquified natural gas, LNG, is to be shipped from the Alaskan Kenai Peninsular
by an ocean carrier to processing plant on Yaquina Bay, Oregon. The molar
composition of the commercial LNG is

Methane, CH4 93.5 mol %

Ethane, C2H6 4.6%
Propane, C3H8 1.2%
Carbon dioxide 0.7%

Determine:
a. the weight fraction of ethane;
b. the average molecular weight of the LNG mixture;
c. the density of the gas mixture when heated to 207 K and at 1.4  105 Pa;
d. the partial pressure of methane when the total pressure is 1.4  105 Pa;
e. the mass fraction of carbon dioxide.

2. In mass transfer calculations, one often uses concentration in both molar and mass
unit. This happens because on one hand while solving diffusion equation and
momentum equation, one prefers to work in mass unit, on the other hand while
dealing with chemical reactions molar unit is convenient. Thus in this problem,
we will deal with questions of notations and definitions. We shall denote the mass
and molar density of component a as ra and ca respectively. The mean molecular
weight M in terms of total density r and total concentration c is defined as r/c.

(a) Show that we can write c    M  , where M  is the molecular weight of

component  .

(b) Show that for an N component system in terms of mass fraction  and mole
fraction x , we can write:
   
N N
i) 1
x  and 1

   / M   1/ M
N N
ii) 1
x  M   M and 1
  / M  x M 
iii) x  and    .
  M 
N N
1 
x M
1 

(c) For a binary mixture of A and B: show that we can write:

1
M AM B
x A  2
 A (1)
 A B 
  
MA MB 
and

M AM B
 A  x A (2)
 x A M A  x B M B 2