Mass transfer operations play a major role in many industries such as pharmaceutical industries, dyes industries, petrochemical industries and fertilizer industries to name a few where separation of two or more components is required. (i) Discuss the following mass transfer operations and suggest their applications in suitable process industries.(a) Distillation,(b) Adsorption and(c) evaporation. (ii) A continuous fractionating column is designed to separate a mixture of benzene and toluene. The mixture of above solvents is continuously fed to the column. The overhead product contains benzene as major product whereas bottom product contains toluene as major product.With a suitable block diagram mention the feed and various products obtained in the fractionating column.

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Mass transfer operations play a major role in many industries such as pharmaceutical industries, dyes industries, petrochemical industries and fertilizer industries to name a few where separation of two or more components is required.

(i) Discuss the following mass transfer operations and suggest their applications in suitable process industries.

(a) Distillation,

(b) Adsorption and

(ii) A continuous fractionating column is designed to separate a mixture of benzene and toluene. The mixture of above solvents is continuously fed to the column. The overhead product contains benzene as major product whereas bottom product contains toluene as major product.

With a suitable block diagram mention the feed and various products obtained in the fractionating column.

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