An absorber is being proposed to scrub chloroform in air using pure water to decrease the chloroform concentration to a permissible 9 ppm. If the air stream enters the column at 1003 kmol/hr with 208 ppm chloroform and the water enters the column at 187137 kmol/hr, how many stages should be designed into the absorption column? The air is at 25C and 1.5 atm. Henry’s law constant for chloroform/water at 25C is 211 atm/mole fraction

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An absorber is being proposed to scrub chloroform in air using pure water to decrease the chloroform concentration to a permissible 9 ppm. If the air stream enters the column at 1003 kmol/hr with 208 ppm chloroform and the water enters the column at 187137 kmol/hr, how many stages should be designed into the absorption column? The air is at 25C and 1.5 atm. Henry’s law constant for chloroform/water at 25C is 211 atm/mole fraction

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