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Q#1 GATE CH 2018 NAT +2 marks -0 marks

It is decided to extract  from a feed containing 20 mol%  and 80 mol%  in two ideal cross-current stages as shown below, using equal amount of pure solvent  in each stage.

Components  and  are immiscible. 60% of  in the feed is extracted in Stage 1. The equilibrium relation is given by  where,
 moles of  per mole of  in raffinate

 moles of  per mole of  in extract in equilibrium with raffinate

The mol % of  in raffinate from Stage 2 is  (rounded off to second decimal place).

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