You are required to develop content to demonstrate the design process to recover 98 wt% toluene from a 1000 kg/s of mixture containing 20 wt% benzene, 30 wt% toluene, and the remaining xylene using distillation columns in series

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Intro
Diagram of designed distillation columns
Explanation of concepts
Calculations to demonstrate mass balance
Justification and reference

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ASSESMENT QUESTIONS

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1. Can the problem be solved if DOF is unequal to 0 ?
2. What is the mass flowrate of toluene that enters the distillation column 2 ? (Hint: m3,T)
3. What is the total of mass flowrate of toluene that comes out of distillation column 2 ? (Hint: m4,T & m5,T)