Problems

1. Draw input/output diagrams for the following pieces of equipment:

a. A fluidized bed

b. A turbine

c. A pump

d. A stripper

e. An adiabatic batch reactor

f. A semibatch reactor with heat removal

g. A heat exchanger between two process streams (no utilities)

2. Write down the equipment-independent and equipment-dependent relationships for each piece of equipment listed in Problem 19.1.

3. Write down the equipment-independent and equipment-dependent relationships for a distillation column.

4. Draw input/output diagrams for the following processes. Pick any two adjacent pieces of equipment, and draw input/output diagrams for these, clearly showing how the output from one affects the input to the other.

a. Ethylbenzene, described in Appendix B, Project B.2