mixture of Benzene and Toluene

5 views (last 30 days)
Rahul Karelia
Rahul Karelia on 17 Sep 2020
Commented: Rahul Karelia on 24 Sep 2020
A mjxture of benzene and toluene with p percent benzene and (l - p) percent toluene at 10°C is fed continuously to a vessel in which the mixture is healed to 50°c. The liquid product is 40 mole percent benzene and the vapor product is 68.4 mole percent benzene. Using conservation of the overall mass, we obtain the equation
V+L=I
where V is the vapor mass and L is the liquid mass.
Using conservation of benzene mass, we obtain the equation 0.684 V + 0.4 L = 0.01 p
Write a user-defined function that uses the left-division method to solve for V and L with p a the function's input argument. Test your function for the case where p = 50 percent

Answers (1)

BOB MATHEW SYJI
BOB MATHEW SYJI on 17 Sep 2020
Hope this helps. The function chemist_problem(p) inputs p and gives output vector y which have values of v and l.
function y =chemist_problem(p)
syms v l x
x=p;
eqn1= v+l==1;
eqn2= 0.684*v+0.4*l==0.01*x;
[A,B] = equationsToMatrix([eqn1, eqn2], [v, l]);
X = linsolve(A,B)
end
  5 Comments
John D'Errico
John D'Errico on 23 Sep 2020
Please don'y do their homework assignments when no effort is shown. This does nothing to help the student, except teach them to ask for help immediately whenever they don't want to make the effort, and to expect that someone out there will be foolish enough to do their homework on demand.
Rahul Karelia
Rahul Karelia on 24 Sep 2020
well okay. will put the tried code first next time. though this is not the home work. And i am not a student.
I respect your work here.

Sign in to comment.

Categories

Find more on Programming in Help Center and File Exchange

Community Treasure Hunt

Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!

Start Hunting!