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A pharmaceutical product is crystallized and washed with absolute ethanol. A 100 kg batch of product...

A pharmaceutical product is crystallized and washed with absolute ethanol. A 100 kg batch of product containing 10% ethanol by weight is to be dried to 0.1% ethanol by weight by passing 0.2 m3/min of 50�C nitrogen through the dryer. Estimate the rate (mol/min) that ethanol is removed from the crystals, assuming that ethanol exerts the same vapor pressure as if it were pure liquid. Based on this assumption, estimate the residence time for the crystals in the dryer. The dryer operates at 0.1 MPa and the vapor pressure of the pharmaceutical is negligible.

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