Question: 2) In the Keyes process for making absolute alcohol from alcohol containing 5 wt% H20, a third component (CH) is added with the alcohol feed

 2) In the Keyes process for making absolute alcohol from alcohol

2) In the Keyes process for making absolute alcohol from alcohol containing 5 wt% H20, a third component (CH) is added with the alcohol feed to produce a ternary azeotrope whose composition is: 18.5 wt% C,H,OH, 7.4 wt% H20 and 74.1 wt% CH. A single fractioning column is used to produce azeotrope as overhead and absolute alcohol as bottoms. What volume of benzene must be added to enable production of 4 m? of absolute alcohol? (2.185 m?) Data: 100 wt% ethanol 100 wt% benzene p=0.785 kg/L p=0.872 kg/L

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