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Name: Pledge: This is a closed- book exam. Only calculators are allowed. Do all your work on this paper. Cross out all work you do not wish to be considered. You must show your reasoning and write the equations you are using to Pledge: receive credit. Remember to use the correct units and watch out for significant digits in the final results. 1. The Stevens power plant is looking to store and eventually sequester the CO2 it generates. One design requires that 10,000 kg of CO2 be stored in a tank maintained at 46 oC and 37 bar. Provide your best estimate for the size of this tank in m3. What error would you make if you assumed ideal gas behavior. From the spreadsheets: M = 44.01 g/mol m 10, 000 V Vm Vm 2.272 x105 M 0.04401 Peng Robinson 0.000589993 m3/mol 134 m3 Redlich Kwong 0.000599098 m3/mol 136 m3 Soave Redlich Kwong 0.000602182 m3/mol 137 m3 Correlations 0.000611569 m3/mol 139 m3 Ideal gas mRgT 10, 000 x(8.314 / 44.01) x(273.15 46) V 162.9 m3 P 3700 Not a good idea to use the ideal gas law! 2. What is the final temperature when heat in the amount of 106 kJ is added to a 18 kilomol mixture of 50mol% ethylene/50%mol ethane initially at 260oC in a steady-flow heat exchanger operating at approximately atmospheric pressure. We have 18 kilomol of the mixture , i.e. 9000 mol of ethane and 9000 mol of ethylene. The heat needed to heat on emole of each gas from 295.15 to 260+273.15 = 533.15 K is Stoichiometric Coeff. or Number of Moles Name 1 Ethylene 1 Ethane 0 Carbon dioxide 0 Hydrogen 0 Nitrogen Spring 2012 1

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Enter Reaction Temperature below

Reaction T(K) H
o T o

(kJ/mol)

G T/RT (kJ/mol) ln Ka Ka

533.15 -2.465 81.70166452 -18.4319579 9.88786E-09

Use in Solver

28.8445902

Add this value to the heat supplied per mole of each gas 106/9000 = 111.11 kJ The target cell in Solver is 111.11 + 28.84 =139.95 J to get the final temperature.
Reaction T(K) H
o T o

(kJ/mol)

G T/RT (kJ/mol) ln Ka Ka

1109.690616 108.640 131.1918682 -14.2198489 6.67418E-07

Use in Solver

139.9500003

3. If the heat of combustion of urea, (NH2)2CO(s), at 25 oC is 631,660 Jmol-1 when the products are H2O(l), CO2(g) and N2(g), what is the standard heat of formation of urea at 298 K. The combustion of urea can be written as: 2H2 + O2 = 2H2O(l) Hf1 = 2x(-285,830) J C + O2 = CO2(g) Hf2 = 393,509 J N2(g)+2H2O(l)+CO2(g)=(NH2)2CO(s)+3/2O2 H = 631,660J The standard heat of formation is determined from the reation: N2(g)+2H2(g)+C(s)+1/2O2(g)=(NH2)2CO(s) H298 = Hf1+Hf2 +H H298 = 333,509 J Spring 2012 2

4. Hydrogen is produced by reforming methane via the following reaction: CH4(g) +H2O(g) = 3 H2(g) + CO(g) Methane and steam, each at 800 K and 1 atm, are fed to the reactor in a 1:1 ratio. a) The hydrogen and carbon monoxide leave the reactor at 1200 K. The reaction essentially goes to completion. How much heat must be supplied per mole of methane reacted? Take one mole of methane and on emole of hydrogenas the basis. CH4 H2O H2 CO Input 1 1 0 0 Output 0 0 3 1 Firt method: Cool the reactants to 298 K, they react, the products are heated to the final temperature H 1200 K H2

800 K H1

Hr(298) = H = H1 + Hr + H2 From the spreadsheets Enter the stoichiometric coefficients to get the heat of reaction at 298 K Stoichiometric Coeff. or Number of Moles -1 -1 3 1 0

Name
Methane Water (g) Hydrogen Carbon monoxide Nitrogen

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Reaction T(K) H
o T

(kJ/mol)

298.15 205.813

Cool the reactants: Stoichiometric Coeff. or Number of Moles Name 1 Methane 1 Water (g) 0 Hydrogen 0 Carbon monoxide 0 Nitrogen

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Reaction T(K) H
o T o

(kJ/mol)

G T/RT (kJ/mol) ln Ka Ka

1073.15 -243.498 -231.429738 25.93873035 1.84097E+11

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72.84048573

Heat the products Stoichiometric Coeff. or Number of Moles Name 0 Methane 0 Water (g) 3 Hydrogen 1 Carbon monoxide 0 Nitrogen

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Enter Reaction Temperature below

Reaction T(K) H
o T o

(kJ/mol)

G T/RT (kJ/mol) ln Ka Ka

1200 -1.433 -308.514739 30.92321576 2.69018E+13

Use in Solver

109.0918358

The heat to be supplied = 109.09 + 205.81-72.84 = 241.04 kJ b) The reaction is carried out at 800 K. The hydrogen and carbon monoxide leave the reactor at 800 K. The yield of the reaction is 0.25. How much heat must be supplied per mole of methane reacted? Since the reactants and the products are at the same temperature of 800K, the only heat that has to be supplied is the heat produced by the reaction at 800 K, HR(800) Stoichiometric Coeff. or Number of Moles -1 -1 3 1 0

Name
Methane Water (g) Hydrogen Carbon monoxide Nitrogen

Enter Reaction Temperature below

Reaction T(K) H
o T

(kJ/mol)

800 222.119
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o

ln Ka Ka

23.1257643 -3.47693113 0.0309021

H = 0.25x222.12 = 55.53 kJ

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