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Please answer the question fully with the numbers stated in the problem. Also, I would really appreciate it if you could indicate which part is

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3 Question 3 Q3. The industrial process for synthesizing phenol is known as the cumene-phenol process (cumene process or Hock process). It is used to convert benzene and propene in the presence of oxygen to phenol and acetone according to the following reaction: CH+CH+02 CHOH+C, HO 65 The reaction is carried out with excess benzene and excess oxygen to ensure that no side reactions occur. A 1.24 mole ratio of benzene to propene is fed to a reactor in the presence of 32.0 mole% excess air (N and O2). The first pass conversion of propene is 100%. The products leave the reactor and enter a condenser where the gaseous nitrogen and oxygen leaves the process, and the liquid organic products are fed to a distillation column. The distillation column separates the products from the reactants. Any unreacted reactants are recycled into the feed stream. The products are directed to a second distillation column that separates the acetone from the phenol. If 23.4kg/h of phenol is produced from this process: What is the molar flow rate (nz) of the reactor feed"? What is the molar flow rate (n) of the "fresh feed"? Calculate the mole fractions of the components in the fresh feed (Stream 1: X2, X2, xz and xq), and the mole fractions of the components in all the other streams. Re-draw and label fully the process flow diagram shown below, by filling the empty spaces. [Hints: Ignore the product flow rate and start balancing from the reactor using an appropriate basis, e.g., 100 mol/h of the limiting propene reactant similar to Example 4.7-3 (Afterlectureslide-0301).. After solving, scale up as appropriate and answer the questions. Mw of Phenol= 94.11; in air 02:N=0.21:0.79 mole ratio) . . Q3 Process Flow Diagram X X12= mol/hr mol CoHe/mol mol C3H/mol Reactor Feed m= mol/hr nis molhr ng mol/hr Reactor Condenser Distillation Column 1 Fresh Feed mol/hr / Xya mol CcHe/mol X2= mol C3H/mol X3 mol O2/mol mol CeHe/mol Xo- mol CsHe/mol xy mol O2/mol Xg= mol N/mol na- mol gas/hr Xy= mol O2/molt X10= mol Ny/mol mol Ny/mol mol C3H2O/hr riye mol/hr X3= mol CHO/mol X14= mol CHSOH/mol Distillation Column 2 mol CeHsOH/hr 23,4 kg CoHsOH/hr mg

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