Question: Solve the following design problem using Excel or Matlab. An absorber is to be designed to remove a VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) pollutant from an


Solve the following design problem using Excel or Matlab. An absorber is to be designed to remove a VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) pollutant from an exhaust gas stream. Fifteen cubic meters per minute of gas at 289K and 1.013105Pa containing 5.0mol%VOC is fed to the bottom of the absorption tower. By feeding a VOC-free solvent stream to the top of the tower, the VOC concentration is reduced to 0.3mol%. The solvent stream leaves the tower containing 3.65mol% VOC. With the specified stream flow rates, the overall masstransfer capacity coefficient, KYa, equals 52.0mol/s.m2.YA. The cross-sectional area of the tower is 0.2m2. At 298K, the equilibrium for the VOC-solvent system may be represented by YA=0.8 XA Determine the height of the tower. The submitted solution should include: 1. All input data, calculations performed in details. 2. All the plot in your calculation and the datasheets
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