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Mass Transfer 2 Assignment

The document is an assignment for the Department of Petrochemical Engineering at UIT-RGPV, focusing on adsorption and ion exchange principles. It includes definitions, applications, and calculations related to adsorption processes, such as breakthrough curves and the use of adsorbents in decolorizing solutions. The assignment also requires students to analyze equilibrium data and determine the required quantities of adsorbents for various operations.

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Mass Transfer 2 Assignment

The document is an assignment for the Department of Petrochemical Engineering at UIT-RGPV, focusing on adsorption and ion exchange principles. It includes definitions, applications, and calculations related to adsorption processes, such as breakthrough curves and the use of adsorbents in decolorizing solutions. The assignment also requires students to analyze equilibrium data and determine the required quantities of adsorbents for various operations.

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UIT-RGPV (Autonomous) Bhopal

Department of Petrochemical Engineering

Assignment no. 1 (Unit-I: Adsorption and lon Exchange)


Date:28.03.2022 Submission Date :04.04.2022
Subjeet code - PC 601 Subjeet: Mass Transfer -11

Define adsorption and discuss various adsorbents and their applications. Explain principle of ion exchange and

its application m softening of water solhitions.

State the significance of Freundlich equation applicable to adsorption. Write a note on various commercial
applications of ion-exchange process.
3. Explain break through curve in adsorption. Explain the phenomena ot adsorption from dilute and concentrated

solutions
4 A solution of washed raw cane sugar is coloured by the presence ol impurities. It is to be decolourised by
treatment with an adsorptive carbon in a contact filtration plant. The data for an equilibrium isotherm is uiven
below. The original solution has a colour concentration of 9.6 measured on an arbitrary scale and it is desired to

reduce colour to 10 % of its original value.

Kg carbon /kg solution 0 0.001 0.004 0.008 0.02 0.04


Equilibrium colour 9.6 8.6 6.3 4.3 1.7 0.7
Convert the data to a suitable form for plott1ng the equilibrium isotherm and determine the quantity of fresh
carbon required per 1000 kg of solution for tw0
a stages countercurrent operation.

5. In a
laboratory setup, toluene vapours in air are passed over a bed of activated carbon. In the first
experiment, the
bed depth is 50 cm, while in the second experiment, it is 100 cm. The breakthrough was determined
at 5% of the
inlet concentration. In the first
experiment, the breakthrough occurred at 65 minutes while in the second test, it
occurred at 140 minutes. Determine the length of the unused bed.
6. A solid adsorbent is used to remove colour impurity from an
aqueous solution. The
original value of colour on an
arbitrary scale is 48. It is
required to reduce this to 10% of its original value.
Using the following data, find the
quantity of fresh adsorbent used for 1000 kg of solution for a
(a) single stage and (b) a two stage cross -current
operation when the intermediate colour value is 24.
Equilibrium data:
Kg adsorbent/kg of solution
Equilibrium colour (Y)
00.001 0.004 0.008 0.02 0.04
48 43 |31.5215 8.5 3.5
7. An
experimental packed adsorption column of
0.5 m bed depth is used for
stream having 0.02 mole fraction of a volatile breakthrough study of a dilute vent
organic. The breakthrough curve is
concentration is 0.01 mole fraction at 60 min. It is symmetric and the effluent
also found that it takes 15
increase from min for the effluent concentration
y
=
0.0004 to y =
0. 0196 to
(i.e. 2% to 98% of the influent
MTZ (in cm)? concentration). What is the length of the

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