Question: A distillation column with a partial condenser and a partial reboiler operating at 1 . 0 atm is separating 2 0 0 kmo l h

A distillation column with a partial condenser and a partial reboiler operating at 1.0atm is separating 200kmolh of a feed that is 60mol% acetone and 40mol% ethanol. The feed is a subcooled liquid, and 12 moles of the feed condense one mole of vapor in the column. The feed is fed to the fourth stage below the partial condenser. The bottoms mole fraction is xB=0.08 acetone and the distillate is yD=0.80 mole fraction acetone. The boilup rate ?bar(V)=944.82kmolh. Assume CMO is valid. VLE data are in Problem 4.D7.
a. Determine B and D.
b. Calculate q=?bar(L)-LF and the slope of the feed line. Then, plot the feed line.
c. Determine ?bar(L),L, and V.
d. Plot the operating lines.
e. Step off stages from the top down and determine the number of stages needed.
\table[[xA,0,0.1,0.15,0.2,0.25,0.3,0.35,0.4,0.5,0.6,0.7,0.8,0.9,1],[yA,0,0.262,0.348,0.417,0.478,0.524,0.566,0.605,0.674,0.739,0.802,0.865,0.929,1],[TC,78.3,-,-,-,67.3,65.9,-,63.6,-,60.4,59.1,58,57,56.1]]
 A distillation column with a partial condenser and a partial reboiler

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