One thousand kilograms per hour of a mixture containing equal parts by mass of ethanol and water is distilled. Product streams leave the top and the bottom of the distillation column. The flowrate of the bottom stream is measured and found to be 673 kg/h, and the overhead stream is analyzed and found to contain 96 wt% ethanol. Find the flowrates of all components in all streams.

You have chosen to use a mass fraction to find some information to put in the table. Which box do you think we can fill in?

Streams\mass flow rate Total Ethanol Water
Feed 1000 Ffeed,ethanol
Ffeed,water
Overhead Foverhead,total
Foverhead,ethanol
Foverhead,water
Bottoms 673 Fbottoms,ethanol
Fbottoms,water




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