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Gas Absoprtion Tutorial

This document contains a tutorial on gas absorption processes with examples involving the absorption of various gases like acetone, ammonia, and benzene from gas mixtures using water or oil as the absorbing liquid in a packed tower. The examples provide calculations to determine the number of overall transfer units required or the height of tower required to achieve a given level of gas removal under specified operating conditions and mass transfer coefficients.

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Gas Absoprtion Tutorial

This document contains a tutorial on gas absorption processes with examples involving the absorption of various gases like acetone, ammonia, and benzene from gas mixtures using water or oil as the absorbing liquid in a packed tower. The examples provide calculations to determine the number of overall transfer units required or the height of tower required to achieve a given level of gas removal under specified operating conditions and mass transfer coefficients.

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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

FACULTY OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY


DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

TCE2003 MASS TRANSFER PROCESSES


GAS ABSORPTION TUTORIAL
1. An acetoneair mixture containing 0.015 mole fraction of acetone has the mole
fraction reduced to 1 per cent of this value by countercurrent absorption with water
in a packed tower. The gas flowrate G is 1 kg/m2s of air and the water enters at 1.6
kg/m2s. For this system, Henrys law holds and ye = 1.75x, where ye is the mole
fraction of acetone in the vapour in equilibrium with a mole fraction x in the liquid.
How many overall transfer units are required?
2. Acetone is to be recovered from a 5 per cent acetoneair mixture by scrubbing with
water in a packed tower using countercurrent flow. The liquid rate is 0.85 kg/m2s
and the gas rate is 0.5 kg/m2s. The overall absorption coefficient KGa may be taken
as 1.5 104 kmol/[m3s(kN/m2)] partial pressure difference] and the gas-film
resistance controls the process. What height of tower is required tower to remove
98 percent of the acetone? The equilibrium data for the mixture are:
Mole fraction acetone in gas
Mole fraction acetone in liquid

0.0099
0.0076

0.0196
0.0156

0.0361
0.0306

0.0400
0.0333

3. Ammonia is to be removed from 10 per cent ammoniaair mixture by


countercurrent scrubbing with water in a packed tower at 293 K so that 99 per cent
of the ammonia is removed when working at a total pressure of 101.3 kN/m2. If the
gas rate is 0.95 kg/m2s of tower cross-section and the liquid rate is 0.65 kg/m2 s,
what is the necessary height of the tower if the absorption coefficient KGa = 0.001
kmol/m3s (kN/m2) partial pressure difference. The equilibrium data are:

4. Benzene is to be absorbed from coal gas by means of a wash oil. The inlet gas
contains 3 per cent by volume of benzene, and the exit gas should not contain more
than 0.02 per cent benzene by volume. The suggested oil circulation rate is 480 kg
oil/100 m3 of inlet gas measured at NTP. The wash-oil enters the tower solute-free.
If the overall height of a transfer unit based on the gas phase is 1.4 m, determine the
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minimum height of the tower which is required to carry out the absorption. The
equilibrium data are:

5. Ammonia is removed from a 10 per cent ammoniaair mixture by scrubbing with


water in a packed tower, so that 99.9 per cent of the ammonia is removed. What is
the required height of tower? The gas enters at 1.2 kg/m2s, the water rate is 0.94
kg/m2s and KGa is 0.0008 kmol/s m3 (kN/m2).

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