Question: An oil and water stream is to be separated using a settling tank. The feed to the tank ( stream 1 ) is 4 3

An oil and water stream is to be separated using a settling tank. The feed to the tank (stream 1) is 43.5 wt % oil and enters the tank at a total flowrate of 1832 kg/hr. The oil layer rises to the top and exits as stream 2 and the water layer settles at the bottom and exits as stream 3. The separation is not perfect, in that the top layer is 100% oil, the bottom product water layer still contains 8% of the entering oil. You are to find the individual mass flowrates of the product streams, and their ratio (oil layer/water layer), and the composition of the water layer in wt %. What is the % recovery of the oil?

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