Question: A benzene - toluene mixture containing 3 0 mol % benzene is desired to be separated into a bottoms product containing 9 5 mol %

A benzene-toluene mixture containing 30mol% benzene is desired to be separated into a bottoms product containing 95mol% toluene with the distillate containing 90mol% benzene. The reflux ratio is 5. Determine the number of theoretical tray and the position of the feed tray
a) If the feed is saturated vapor
b) If the feed is at a temperature of 283K.
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\table[[x,0,0.1,0.2,0.3,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9,1],[y,0,0.2,0.37,0.5,0.6,0.7,0.78,0.84,0.9,0.95,1]]
MB=78gmol,TBenzene=353.3K
MT=92gmol,TToluene=383.8K
=30000kjkmol,CPL=1.84kjkgK
 A benzene-toluene mixture containing 30mol% benzene is desired to be separated

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