Question: Question 1 - Material Balance (2 Marks) An epoxyethane production plant is supplied with a Fresh Feed which consists of ethene and air which is

 Question 1 - Material Balance (2 Marks) An epoxyethane production plant

Question 1 - Material Balance (2 Marks) An epoxyethane production plant is supplied with a Fresh Feed which consists of ethene and air which is combined with a recycle stream (RC) to form a Mixed Feed (MF). The Reactor Product (RP) is subsequently split into two streams by an ideal separator i.e. a Product stream (P) containing all epoxyethane from the reactor and the Separator Product (SP) stream containing the remaining components. The plant operates with a fresh feed molar ratio = 5 (i.e. 5 mols of air to 1 mol of ethene), a reactor Conversion per pass, Cpp = 42% and a Recycle Ratio (RC/W) = 2.5. You may assume that there are no side reactions. Take 100 kmols/day of ethene in the Fresh Feed as a basis and construct a complete material balance table for the process using Microsoft Excel. You must identify all components and quantities present in all process streams and it must be possible to readily identify the flowrate of each component in all pipe sections (units of kmols/day). RC CHA FF ME RP SP W REACTOR SEPARATOR AIR Figure Q1: BFD for the process plant described in Question 1 1

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