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Chemical Safety Calculations

This document contains information about a chemical engineering assignment submitted by Nurwani Binti Hussin. It includes 3 problems dealing with evaporation rates, normal distribution functions, and modifying equations to represent evaporation of mixtures. Problem 1 asks how much fresh air must be supplied to a room to maintain a volatile substance below 100 ppm given evaporation rate and room details. Problem 2 asks to calculate the fraction of individuals with responses between 2.5-7.5 using a normal distribution function. Problem 3 asks to modify evaporation equations to represent evaporation of an ideal miscible liquid mixture using Raoult's law.

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Chemical Safety Calculations

This document contains information about a chemical engineering assignment submitted by Nurwani Binti Hussin. It includes 3 problems dealing with evaporation rates, normal distribution functions, and modifying equations to represent evaporation of mixtures. Problem 1 asks how much fresh air must be supplied to a room to maintain a volatile substance below 100 ppm given evaporation rate and room details. Problem 2 asks to calculate the fraction of individuals with responses between 2.5-7.5 using a normal distribution function. Problem 3 asks to modify evaporation equations to represent evaporation of an ideal miscible liquid mixture using Raoult's law.

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UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN KIMIA


SAFETY AND HEALTH IN CHEMICAL AND BIOPROCESS INDUSTRIES (CBE686)
NAME

NURWANI BINTI HUSSIN

GROUP

5A

ASSIGNMENT

DATE

4 NOV 2014

PROG/CODE

EH242

SUBMIT TO

DR. SITI NOOR SUZILA BT MAQSOOD-UL-HAQUE

Problem 2.5
A certain volatile substance evaporates from an open container into a room of volume 1000ft.
The evaporation rate is determined to be 100mg/min. if the air in the room is assumed to be
well mixed, how many ft/min of fresh air must be supplied to ensure that the concentration of
the volatile is maintained below its TLV of 100ppm? The temperature is 77F and the pressure is
1 atm. Assume a volatile species molecular weight of 100. Under most circumstances the air in
a room cannot be assumed to be well mixed. How would poor mixing affect the quantity of air
required?

Taking out the information:


Volume = 1000ft
Rate of evaporation,Qm = 100mg/min
Volatile concentration, below TLV = 100ppm
Temperature, T = 77F=25C=298K=
Pressure = 1 atm
Molecular weight = 100g/mol
gas constant, R= 0.0821atm.L/mol.K = 0.73024atm.ft^3/lbmol.R
Assumptions:
1. Well-mixed air,
2. Steady state,

By using the equation 3-9


kCppm =
rearrange the question and assume k=1

Qv =

)(
(

)(
)(

)(

Problem 2.6
In example 2-1, part c, the data were represented by the normal distribution function of
(

( )

Use this distribution function to determine the fraction of individuals demonstrating a response
between range of 2.5 to 7.5.
Fraction affected =
=

( )

Which can be approximated by =

()

f(x)

2.5

0.6676

3.5

0.9030

()

(
0.3927

0.4758
4.5

1.0000
0.4767

5.5

0.9066
0.3949

6.5

0.6730
0.2705

7.5

0.4090

Therefore, the summation of (f(i)+f(i+1))/2 I = 2.0106


Fraction affected = 2.0106 0.178 = 0.3579

Problem 3-19
Equations 3-12 and 3.14 represent the evaporation of a pure liquid. Modify these equations to
represent the evaporation of mixture of ideal miscible liquid.
Equations 3-12, Qm =
Equation 3-14, Cppm =
Therefore, the equilibrium vapor pressure given by Raoults law for ideal miscible solution. Pi
represent the partial pressure at equilibrium, xi is mole fraction in the liquid and
saturation vapor pressure.
Pi = xi.
Equation 3-11, Qm (

Rearrange the equation,


Qm =

Most of the time


Qm =

Rearrange again the equation between 3-11 and 3-14


Cppm =

is

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