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(35 pts) You are part of a team tasked with designing an absorption column in an oil refinery. The team has tasked you to determine

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(35 pts) You are part of a team tasked with designing an absorption column in an oil refinery. The team has tasked you to determine the flooding velocity (ft/s ) and column diameter (ft) for the following conditions of a hydrocarbon absorber equipped with sieve trays. The graph needed is provided at the end of this document. Pressure 21,000mmHg Temperature 55C Gas Flowrate 565mol/s Gas MW26.6g/mol Gas Density 3.1g/L Liquid Flowrate 890mol/s Liquid MW 109g/mol Liquid Density 658.4g/L Liquid Surface Tension -18.4 dynes /cm Tray Spacing -24 in =0.9uop=0.7ur228.32L=1ft3 3. ( 8pts) What is FLG? 4. (8pts) What is CSB(ft/s) ? 5. (8pts) What is uf(ft/s) ? 6. ( 2 pts) What is uop(ft/s) ? 7. ( 9pts) What is Dt (ft) [Do not round up to the nearest half foot]

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