You desire to flash 20 moles/min of a liquid mixture containing 20% by mole chloroform (1) and 80% by mole ethanol (2) at 332.4 K in a flash distillation unit operating at 70 kPa. You do not know a lot about this mixture at this temperature, other than the fact it exhibits an azeotrope (x1 = y1 = 0.84 at 101.3 kPa; Chen, 1995). Since this system forms an azeotrope, you know not to treat it as an ideal solution. Model the system using the 1-parameter Margules equation and estimate whether the mixture flashes at 332.4 K and 70 kPa. If it does flash, calculate the resulting flowrate and composition of the stream(s) leaving the flash distillation unit.
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