Question: A distillation column with a total condenser and a partial reboiler is separating two feeds. Feed 1 is a saturated liquid, and its rate is

A distillation column with a total condenser and a partial reboiler is separating two feeds. Feed 1 is a saturated liquid, and its rate is \(100.0 \mathrm{kmol} / \mathrm{h}\). Feed 1 is \(55.0 \mathrm{~mol} \%\) methanol, \(21.0 \mathrm{~mol} \%\) ethanol, \(23.0 \mathrm{~mol} \%\) propanol, and \(1.0 \mathrm{~mol} \%\) butanol. Feed 2 is a saturated liquid with a flow rate of \(150.0 \mathrm{kmol} / \mathrm{h}\). Feed 2 is \(1.0 \mathrm{~mol} \%\) methanol, \(3.0 \mathrm{~mol} \%\) ethanol, \(26.0 \mathrm{~mol} \%\) propanol, and 70.0 \(\mathrm{mol} \%\) butanol. We want to recover \(99.3 \%\) of the propanol in distillate and \(99.5 \%\) of the butanol in bottoms. Make appropriate assumptions, and find distillate and bottoms flow rates and mole fractions of distillate and bottoms.

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