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Chemical engineering products, processes, and challenges. CommoditiesMoleculesNanostructures Key costspeed to market function Basis unit operationsdiscovery properties. A commodity: TiO 2 (titanium oxide). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chemical engineering products, processes, and challenges
Commodities Molecules Nanostructures
Key cost speed to market function
Basis unit operations discovery properties
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A commodity: TiO2 (titanium oxide)
Extremely white, opaque, edible, dirt resistant. Used in paper, food,cosmetics, paint, textiles, plastics. World consumption: 4 million tons/yr.Cost: $2,000/ton. Total world value = $8 billion/yr.
A 1% increase in production efficiency = 0.01*2*103 *4*106 $/yr = $80 million/yr.
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Molecules
Small and simple: ammonia (NH3) sulfuric acid (H2SO4) ethylene (C2H4) sugar (C12H22O11)
Large and complex: insulin C257H383N65O77S6
Large and simple (polymers): polyethylene[-CH2-CH2]n
See www.psrc.usm.edu/macrog for a verygood introduction to polymers.
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Polymers, e.g. polyethylene
is made up of many monomers: n22 CHCH
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Copolymers are made up of two kinds of monomers, say A and B
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SBS rubber (tires, shoe soles)
The polystyrene is tough; the polybutadiene is rubbery
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Nano applications of polymers
Organized block copolymer of PMMA (polymethylmethacrylate)and PS (polystyrene).
Spin casting in electric fieldproduces cylinders of PS embeddedin the PMMA which are orientedin the direction of the electric fieldPMMA cylinders are 14nm diameter,24nm apart.
PS can be dissolved withacetic acid to leave holes.
Use as a microscopic filter?
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Cylindrical holes are electrochemicallyfilled with magnetic cobalt. Each cylindricalhole can then store 1 “bit” of information.
bit/cm = 1 / (2.4*10-7)
bit/cm2 = 1.7*1011
Computer application:
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Genetic engineering: production of synthetic insulin
1) Extract a plasmid (a circular molecule of DNA) from thebacterium E-coli
2) Break the circle
3) Insert a section of human DNAcontaining the insulin-producinggene
4) Insert this engineered geneback into the E-coli bacterium
5) The E-coli and its offspringnow produce insulin
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Chemical Engineering
Two strategies for obtaining chemical compounds and materials:
1) Create the desired compound from raw materialsvia one or more chemical reactions in a “reactor”
2) Isolate the compound where it exists in combinationwith other substances through a “separation process”
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Reactors
raw materials energy
energy
product + contaminants
byproducts
catalyst
catalyst Reactor
fermenters in a brewerypharmaceuticals reactor
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Separations
Based on differences between individual substances:
Boiling pointFreezing pointDensityVolatilitySurface TensionViscosityMolecular Complexity
SizeGeometryPolarization
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Separations
Based on differences in the presence of other materials
SolubilityChemical reactivity
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Separations: Garbage
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Garbage separation (cont.)
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Garbage separation (cont.)
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Separation processes-- “Unit operations”:
A. Evaporation—the removal of a valueless component from a mixture throughvaporization. Mixture is usually a nonvolatile solid or liquid and a volatileliquid. E.g., evaporation of sea-water to obtain salt
B. Distillation—extraction by vaporization and condensation. Depends ondifferent boiling points of components. E.g., distillation of wine to producebrandy.
C. Gas absorption1. gas absorption—the transfer of a soluble component of a gas mixture to
a liquid, e.g. bubbler in a fish tank to oxygenate the water.2. desorption or stripping—the transfer of a volatile component from a
liquid to a gas.
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D. Solvent extraction1. liquid-liquid extraction—requires two immiscible phases—an “extract”
layer and a “raffinate” layer. Solute partitions between two phases.2. washing—the removal of soluble substance and impurities
mechanically holding on to insoluble solids.3. precipitative extraction—a liquid solution can be split into a liquid-
liquid or liquid-solid by adding a third substance.4. leaching—the extraction of a component in solid phase by a liquid
solvent—e.g., making coffee.
E. Filtration—the process of removing a solid from a liquid/solid or gas/solidmixture.
F. Chromatography—the process of separating fluid components by capillarytransport.
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Bases for separation:
A. Differential boiling points, e.g., reducing alcohol content in wine-based sauceby cooking.
B. Differential freezing points, e.g., separating fat from broth by refrigerationC. Differential densities, e.g., separating heavier solids from liquids with
centrifugation.D. Differential anything. . .
Unit operations—more details:
A) The transfer of energy and/or material through physical (sometimes physical-chemical) means.
B) Involves multiple phases: gas-liquid, liquid-liquid, solid-gas, etc.C) Phases consist of mixtures of componentsD) Under the right conditions, one phase is enriched with a component as another
is depleted of that component.E) Component transfer
1) single stage2) multiple stage3) continuous
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S in g le -s ta g e p r o c e ss
A ) P h a se s a re b ro u g h t in to c lo se c o n ta c tB ) C o m p o n e n ts re d is tr ib u te b e tw e e n p h a se s to e q u ilib riu m c o n c e n tra tio n sC ) P h a se s a re se p a ra te d c a rry in g n e w c o m p o n e n t c o n c e n tra tio n s
D ) A n a ly s is b a se d o n m a ss b a la n c e
V 1 V 2
L 0 L 1
s ta g e 1
L is a s tre a m o f o n e p h a se ; V is a s tre a m o f a n o th e r p h a se .U se su b sc rip ts to id e n tify s ta g e o f o rig in a tio n (fo r m u ltip le s ta g e p ro b le m s)
T o ta l m a ss b a la n c e (m a ss /tim e ):
L 0 + V 2 = L 1 + V 1 = M
Counter-current processes
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Assume three components: A = dye, B = oil, C = water
xA = mass fraction of A in stream LyA = mass fraction of A in stream V
(e.g., L0 xA0 = mass of component A in stream L0 )
Component mass balance (mass/time):
L0 xA0 + V2 yA2 = L1 xA1 + V1 yA1 = M xAM
L0 xC0 + V2 yC2 = L1 xC1 + V1 yC1 = M xCM
(equation for B not necessary because xA + xB + xC = 1)
Suppose the following: V is oil (B) contaminated with dye (A). L iswater (C) which is used to extract the dye from the oil. When V comes incontact with L, the dye redistributes itself between the V and L. L and Vare immiscible (i.e., two distinct liquid phases).
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V 1 = o i l + l e s s d y e V 2 = o i l + d y e
L 0 = w a t e r L 1 = w a t e r + s o m e d y e
s t a g e 1
O i l f l o w = V ( 1 - y A ) = V ’ = c o n s t a n t
W a t e r f l o w = L ( 1 - x A ) = L ’ = c o n s t a n t
T h e n , f o r m a s s b a l a n c e o f t h e A c o m p o n e n t :
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S p e c i f i c p r o b l e m : 1 0 0 k g / h r o f d y e - c o n t a m i n a t e d o i l ( 1 % b y w e i g h t ) i sm i x e d w i t h 1 0 0 k g / h r o f w a t e r t o r e d u c e t h e d y e c o n c e n t r a t i o n i n t h e o i l .W h a t i s t h e r e s u l t i n g d y e c o n c e n t r a t i o n i n o i l a f t e r p a s s i n g t h r o u g h t h em i x i n g s t a g e i f d y e e q u i l i b r i u m i s a t t a i n e d a n d H e n r y ’ s c o n s t a n t H = 4 ?
S o l ’ n :
L ’ = 1 0 0 k g / h r V ’ = 1 0 0 ( 1 - . 0 1 ) = 9 9 k g / h r
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Counter-current heat exchangers in nature
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Counter-current heat exchangersHow do they work?
limitedheat exchange
goodheat exchange
appendagebody
Tb-out
Tb-in
heat loss
exchanger body appendage
Tb-out
Tb-in
exchanger