Question: Q 3 . A fruit juice is going to be concentrated in a two - stage evaporator. We have 1 0 k g s of

Q3. A fruit juice is going to be concentrated in a two-stage evaporator. We have 10kgs of a juice composed by 92% water, 7.5% soluble solids and 0.5% insoluble solids (in suspension). At the end of the process, the water content should be only 60%.
a) Perform the overall mass balance and determine the composition of the concentrate and the quantity of water that needs to be evaporated
b) Perform the energy balance and determine the amount of energy that needs to be supplied if all this would be done in one evaporator working at a temperature of 65C(and corresponding vacuum for boiling at this temperature)
c) If all this energy would be supplied by saturated steam at 1 bar and 100C(leaving the evaporator as liquid water at the boiling point), what is the flow rate of steam that is needed?
The latent heat of evaporation of water at the following temperatures (and corresponding vapour pressures) is: 65C:2355kJkg,70C:2336kJkg,100C:2256kJkg
Assume that the specific heat of fruit juice, regardless of its concentrotion, is .(:C
 Q3. A fruit juice is going to be concentrated in a

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