separation process Flashcards
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Rose oil is extracted from rose leaves using what type of distillation
steam distillation
When the solvent dissolves very little of solute then
large quantity of solvent is required to extract the solute
The triangle whose one corner coincides with the enriching line and the outer corner is on the stripping line is called the
feed plate
Flash distillation is suitable for the separation of components
having very wide boiling points.
Relative volatility varies with the concentration of component for an ideal solution. The relative volatility of a binary mixture may be defined as the ratio of vapor pressure of component ‘A’ to that of component ‘B’, when
vapor phase obeys Dalton’s law and liquid phase obeys Raoult’s law.
Leaching of coarse solid lumps is also termed as
percolation
Large scale usage of flash distillation is practiced in
petroleum refining
In an operating distillation column, the
driving force for the vapor flow is the pressure drop, as the pressure decreases gradually from the bottom to the top of the column.
In case of steam distillation, the steam leaving the liquid is not completely saturated with distillate vapor, because
mixing of steam with the material being vaporised is not so intimate as to result in equilibrium condition.
For a binary mixture distillation process, the degree of freedom is 2. However, if the pressure is fixed in this process, the number of independent variables in this process will be
1
A unit operation in which a soluble component is removed from
an inert solid by a solvent which preferentially dissolves the
soluble matter is known as
leaching
The unit operation by which soluble components of a liquid
mixture are dissolved in a liquid immiscible with the insoluble
component is
solvent extraction
Tea percolation employs
leaching
Which of the following is the most commonly used leaching
solvent in vegetable oil industry?
hexane
Leaching of sugar from sugar beets is done using
water
In a counter-current extractor, as the axial mixing increases, the extraction efficiency
decreases
Bollman extractor
is used for extraction of oil from oilseed.
fig 18-85
Radioactive nuclear waste is treated in
pulsed column extractor
Table 15-13
Acetic acid will be most economically separated from a dilute solution of acetic acid in water by
solvent extraction
Liquid-liquid extraction is based on the differences in
solubility
A solution of solute (A) in diluent (B) is mixed with solvent (S). The component (B) is slightly soluble in (S). The resulting extract will be
rich in S, poor in B, rich in A
The solvent used in liquid extraction should not have high latent heat of vaporization, because
its recovery cost by distillation may be prohibitively high.
Solvent extraction is the terminology applied to the liquid-liquid extraction, which is preferred for the separation of the components of liquids, when
extracting solvent is cheaply & abundantly available.
In a counter-current liquid extractor
only one of the liquids may be pumped at any desired rate.
fig 15-52