Calculating moles of various components


Assignment:

The following feed to a distillation column is separated into an overhead product that contains nothing boiling higher than isobutene and bottoms that contain nothing boiling lower than propane.

Feed Component

Mole %

Ethylene

1.9

Ethane

2.1

Propylene

5.2

Propane

14.8

Isobutane

25.0

n-Butane

34.0

n-Pentane

17.0

 

100.0


The concentration of isobutene in the overhead product is 4.8 mole %, and the concentration of propane in the bottoms is 0.7 mole %.  Calculate the moles of the various components in the overhead and bottoms per 100 moles of feed.

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