Tutorial Solid, Gas

TUTORIAL CHE471
DATE ; 12/5/2016
1. An empty gas cylinder is filled with 784.4 grams of methane to a pressure of 4.02 MPa. The
temperature of the gas within the cylinder is -10.45C. Calculate the volume of the cylinder
using:
a) the ideal gas law
b) the generalised compressibility factor chart.
2. A technical assistant is attempting to fill a gas cylinder with an equimolar mixture of butane and
nitrogen. The cylinder is firstly completely evacuated and then connected to the butane pipeline
and filled to a pressure of 2.9 MPa. The assistant then connects the cylinder to the nitrogen
pipeline but finds that the pressure available in this line is only 4.8 MPa. It is too late to shut the
system off so the assistant takes the cylinder up to this line pressure with nitrogen. The assistant
decides that to achieve the desired equimolar mixture some of the gas mixture in the cylinder
will be vented to waste, lowering the pressure in the cylinder, and then the cylinder will be re-
connected to the nitrogen line and taken back up to the line pressure of 4.8 MPa. To what
pressure should the cylinder be vented?
It may be assumed that all pressures quoted are absolute, that there is no change in temperature
during the operation and that gas mixing in the cylinder is instantaneous.
3. A 109 L cylinder is evacuated and then charged with a gas containing 88 mol % N 2 with the
balance CO2. The gas temperature is 43C and the pressure within the filled cylinder is 121 atm.
Calculate the mass of the gas within the cylinder using:
b) the generalised compressibility factor chart.
4. A research laboratory is busy testing a new, rugged, safety switch designed to send out a signal
when the temperature in a fluidised bed exceeds a preset value. The switch system consists of a
hollow metal cylinder of internal volume 400 mL with a flexible metal diaphragm at one end.
When the pressure in the cylinder exceeds a predetermined value of 6.25 MPa the metal flexes,
forms a connection between 2 contacts and an alarm signal sounds. By changing the amount
and kind of gas present in the cylinder the temperature at which the alarm sounds can be varied
over a wide range.
a) If the alarm is to be set to go off at 640C, how many moles of carbon dioxide should be
introduced into the hollow cylinder?
b) If the carbon dioxide were introduced at room temperature (25C), what would the
pressure (in kPa) of the carbon dioxide in the cylinder be at that temperature?
c) If by mistake, the cylinder were to be filled at 25C to the same pressure as that
calculated in (b) above, but with carbon monoxide instead of carbon dioxide, at what
temperature would the alarm then sound?
5. It is intended to market propane in small cylinders having a volume of 18.0 litres, containing
0.840 kg of propane. If the cylinders may be exposed to a maximum temperature of 160C,
calculate the pressure (kPa) for which they must be designed, using:
b) the generalized compressibility factor charts
6. A gas sample taken from pressurised purge line at 650F and 450 psig is analysed in the
laboratory. It was found that the masses of each component in the gas sample were:
Component Mass (gram)
methane 34
toluene 173
isopropylcyclopentane 53
2-methyl pentane 17
2-methyl hexane 29
What was the density of the original gas sample within the purge line, expressed in kg/m3?
7. A steel cylinder contains a mixture of propane (68 mol %), n-butane (21 mol %) and iso-butane
(11 mol %) at 69.2 atm. Initially the combined weight of the cylinder and gas is 112.1 kg. Over
several hours a portion of the gas is removed from the cylinder. When next the cylinder is
examined the pressure has dropped to 14.6 atm and the combined mass of the cylinder and
remaining gas is 97.3 kg. The temperature is maintained constant at 140C. Calculate the
volume of the steel cylinder.
MW Tc (K) Pc (atm)
carbon dioxide 44.0 304.2 72.8
carbon monoxide 32.0 133.0 34.5
propane 44.0 369.8 41.9
n-butane 58.12 425.2 37.5
iso-butane 58.12 408.1 36.0
n-hexane 86.2 507.3 29.3
isopropylcyclopentane 112.2 601.0 29.6
methane 16.04 190.6 45.4
2-methyl pentane 86.2 497.5 29.7
2-methyl hexane 100.2 530.4 27.0
nitrogen 28.0 126.2 33.5
toluene 92.1 591.8 40.6
1 atm 101325 Pa
Universal Gas constant = 8.314 J/mol K

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