Question: In a two stage process shown in Figure 1 , acetic acid ( A ) is extracted from water ( W ) into hexanol (

In a two stage process shown in Figure 1, acetic acid (A) is extracted from water (W) into hexanol (H) in a liquid-liquid extraction vessel and the extract is subsequently separated by distillation column. Assume that water is completely insoluble in hexanol. A mixture of 18wt% acetic acid and the balance water is fed to a liquid-liquid extraction vessel. Pure hexanol is fed to the vessel to extract the acetic acid. The water-rich stream leaving the vessel is containing 99.5wt% water and the balance is acetic acid. The hexanol-rich extract is fed to a distillation column. The composition of the distillate is 96wt% acetic acid and the balance is hexanol. The bottom stream contains 97.2wt% hexanol and recovers 95% of the hexanol fed to the liquid-liquid extraction vessel.
(a) Draw and completely label the process flowchart.
[6 Marks]
(b) Perform degree of freedom analysis on each unit process and overall system.
[10 Marks]
(c) If the amount of pure hexanol fed to the extraction vessel is 100kgh, calculate
i) the flowrate for each stream,
ii) the composition of hexanol-rich stream, and
iii) percentage of acetic acid in the process that is recovered in the distillate stream.
[14 Marks]
 In a two stage process shown in Figure 1, acetic acid

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