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Chemical Engineering Problem Set

This document provides the details of Problem Set #2 that is due on May 19th, 2021 for the Chemical Engineering Conservation Principles course (CHME 2308). It includes 4 problems involving material and energy balances for processes involving strawberry jam production, ethanol mixtures blending, methanol/water distillation, and an egg sorting process with equipment failure. For each problem, students are asked to draw labeled flowcharts of the processes and perform calculations to determine material quantities, compositions, flow rates and other required values.

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Chemical Engineering Problem Set

This document provides the details of Problem Set #2 that is due on May 19th, 2021 for the Chemical Engineering Conservation Principles course (CHME 2308). It includes 4 problems involving material and energy balances for processes involving strawberry jam production, ethanol mixtures blending, methanol/water distillation, and an egg sorting process with equipment failure. For each problem, students are asked to draw labeled flowcharts of the processes and perform calculations to determine material quantities, compositions, flow rates and other required values.

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Chemical Engineering Conservation Principles – CHME 2308 Summer 2021

Problem Set #2 – Due Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at midnight through Turnitin

1) Strawberries contain about 15 wt% solids and 85 wt% water. To make strawberry jam, crushed
strawberries and sugar are mixed in a 45:55 mass ratio, and the mixture is heated to evaporate water until
the residue contains one-third water by mass.
a) Draw and label a flowchart of this process.
b) Calculate how many pounds of strawberries are needed to make a pound of jam.

2) 300 gallons of a mixture containing 75.0 wt% ethanol (ethyl alcohol) and 25% water (mixture specific
gravity = 0.877) and a quantity of a 40.0 wt% ethanol – 60% water mixture (SG = .952) are blended to
produce a mixture containing 60.0 wt% ethanol. The object of this problem is to determine the required
volume of the 40% mixture.
a) Draw and label a flowchart of the mixing process.
b) Calculate the required volume of the 40% mixture.

3) One thousand kilograms per hour of a mixture containing equal parts by mass of methanol and water is
distilled. The flow rate of the bottoms product is measured and found to be 673 kg/h, and the distillate is
analyzed and found to contain 96.0 wt% methanol.
a) Draw and label a flowchart of the process.
b) Calculate the mass and mole fractions of methanol and the molar flow rates of methanol and
water in the bottoms product.
4) Eggs are sorted into two sizes (large and extra-large) at the Cheerful Chicken Dairy.
Unfortunately, business has not been good lately, and since the Cheerful chicken’s 40-year-old
egg-sorting machine finally gave up the ghost, there have been no funds available to replace it.
Instead, Old Fred, one of the firm’s sharper-eyed employees, has been equipped with a “Large”
rubber stamp in his right hand and an “X-large” stamp in his left, and assigned to stamp each egg
with appropriate label as it goes by on the conveyor belt.

Down the line, another employee puts the eggs into either of two output flows, each egg
according to its stamp.

The system works reasonably well, all things considered, except that Old Fred has a heavy hand,
and on the average breaks 30% of the 120 eggs that pass by him each minute.

At the same time, a check of the “X-large” stream reveals a flow rate of 70 eggs/min, of which
25 eggs/in are broken.

a) Draw and label a flowchart for this process.

b) Determine balances over the egg sorter for the total eggs and the broken eggs.

c) How many “large” eggs leave the plant each minute, and what raction of them are broken?

d) Is Old Fred right- or left-handed?

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