Question: A gas stream containing 4 0 . 0 mole % hydrogen, 3 5 . 0 % carbon monoxide, 2 0 . 0 % carbon dioxide,

A gas stream containing 40.0 mole% hydrogen, 35.0% carbon monoxide, 20.0% carbon dioxide, and 5.0% methane at 15\deg C and at a constant absolute pressure of 35.0 atm. Gas enters the cooler at 120 m3/min and upon leaving the cooler is fed to an absorber, where it is contacted with refrigerated liquid methanol. The pure methanol is fed to the absorber at a molar flow rate 1.2 times that of the inlet gas and absorbs essentially all of the CO2,98% of the methane, and none of the other components of the feed gas. The gas leaving the absorber, which is saturated with methanol at 15\deg C, with a partial pressure of CH3OH at 1000 pa is fed to a reactor for further processing.
calcualte the volumetric flow rate of the gas leaving the absorber
and the mass composition of the exit gas steam

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