Question: A distillation column with a total condenser and a partial reboiler is separating two feeds. The first feed is a saturated liquid and its rate

A distillation column with a total condenser and a partial reboiler is separating two feeds. The first feed is a saturated liquid and its rate is 100.0 kmol/h. This feed is 55.0 mole % methanol, 21.0 mole % ethanol, 23.0 mole % propanol and 1.0 mole % butanol. The second feed is a saturated liquid with a flow rate of 150.0 kmol/h. This feed is 1.0 mol % methanol, 3.0 mole % ethanol, 26.0 mole % propanol, and 70.0 mole % butanol. We wish to recover 99.3% of the propanol in the distillate and 99.5% of the butanol in the bottoms. Find the distillate and the bottoms flow rates and their composition
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