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This document contains examples of material balance calculations for mixing and drying processes. It includes 5 examples of calculations involving mixing battery acid solutions, measuring ammonia concentration in a natural gas pipeline, determining composition percentages for a polymer blend, calculating water loss from cucumbers during drying, and calculating water evaporated from sludge during drying. The examples demonstrate setting up and solving material balances using percentage compositions and flow rates of components.

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1.10 Material Balance Calculations 1

This document contains examples of material balance calculations for mixing and drying processes. It includes 5 examples of calculations involving mixing battery acid solutions, measuring ammonia concentration in a natural gas pipeline, determining composition percentages for a polymer blend, calculating water loss from cucumbers during drying, and calculating water evaporated from sludge during drying. The examples demonstrate setting up and solving material balances using percentage compositions and flow rates of components.

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Lecture 1.

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Material Balance
Calculations 1 (SU,NR)
CH125P Chemical Engineering Calculations
Material Balance Calculations: Mixing
Exercise 1.10.1
You are asked to prepare a batch of 18.63% battery acid as follows. A tank of old weak battery acid
(H2SO4) solution contains 12.43% H2SO4 (the remainder is pure water). If 200 kg of 77.7% H2SO4 is
added to the tank, and the final solution is to be 18.63% H2SO4, how many kilograms of battery acid
have been made?

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Material Balance Calculations: Mixing
Exercise 1.10.1

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Material Balance Calculations: Mixing
Exercise 1.10.1

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Material Balance Calculations: Mixing
Exercise 1.10.2
Ammonia is a gas for which reliable analytical methods are available to determine its concentration
in other gases. To measure flow in a natural gas pipeline, pure ammonia gas is injected into the
pipeline at a constant rate of 72.3 kg/min. Five miles downstream from the injection point, the
steady-state ammonia concentration is found to be 0.382 wt%. The gas upstream from the point of
ammonia injection contains no measurable ammonia. How many kilograms of natural gas (assumed
to be purely CH4) are flowing through the pipelines per hour?

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Material Balance Calculations: Mixing
Exercise 1.10.2

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Material Balance Calculations: Mixing
Exercise 1.10.2

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Material Balance Calculations: Mixing
Exercise 1.10.3
A polymer blend is to be formed from the three compounds whose compositions and approximate
formulas are listed in the table. Determine the percentages of each compound A, B, and C to be
introduced into the mixture to achieve the desired composition.

Compound (%)
Desired
Composition A B C mixture
𝐶𝐻4 𝑥 25 35 55 30
𝐶2 𝐻6 𝑥 35 20 40 30
𝐶3 𝐻8 𝑥 40 45 5 40
Total 100 100 100 100

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Material Balance Calculations: Mixing
Exercise 1.10.3

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Material Balance Calculations: Mixing
Exercise 1.10.3

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Material Balance Calculations: Drying
Exercise 1.10.4
You buy 100 kg of cucumbers that contain 99% water. A few days later they are found to be 98%
water. Is it true that the cucumbers now only weigh 50 kg?

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Material Balance Calculations: Drying
Exercise 1.10.5
Sludge is wet solids that result from the processing in municipal sewage systems. The sludge has to
be dried before it can be composted or otherwise handled. If a sludge containing 70% water and
30% solids is passed through a drier, and the resulting product contains 25% water, how much
water is evaporated per ton of sludge sent to the drier?

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Material Balance Calculations: Drying
Exercise 1.10.5

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Lecture 1.10

Material Balance
Calculations 1 (SU,NR)
CH125P Chemical Engineering Calculations
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