Question

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A fuel gas containing 95.0 mole% methane and the balance ethane is burned completely with 15.0% excess air.

The stack gas leaves the furnace at 800.0°C and is cooled to 450.0°C in a waste-heat boiler, a heat exchanger in which heat lost by cooling gases is used to produce steam from liquid water for heating, power generation, or process applications.

A.
Take as a basis 100.0 mol of the fuel gas fed to the furnace.

Calculate the amounts of each of the following gases leaving the furnace at 800.0°C.

B. Taking as a basis of calculation 100.0 mol of the fuel gas fed to the furnace, calculate the amount (magnitude) of heat (MJ) that must be transferred from the gas in the waste heat boiler to accomplish the indicated cooling.

C. How much saturated steam at 50.0 bar can be produced from boiler feedwater at 40.0°C for the same basis of calculation?

(Assume all the heat transferred from the gas goes into the steam production).

D. At what rate (kmol/s) must fuel gas be burned to produce 1280.0 kg/h of saturated steam (an amount required elsewhere in the plant) in the waste-heat boiler?

E.What is the volumetric flow rate (m³/s) of the stack gas leaving the boiler?

Answer 1