A student performed simple distillation on a 40:60mixture of Methanol and water (% mol).

a. At what temperature will the mixture boil?

b. What is the composition of the liquid collected from simple distillation?

2. Another student performed a fractional distillation on the same mixture of 40:60 (%

mol) Methanol/water mixture and found the liquid collected to contain 4% mol of

water.

a. At what temperature did the mixture containing 4% mol of water boil?

b. How many theoretical plates did the fractionating column used in this experiment

have?

c. What would be the minimum number of theoretical plates required to achieve

complete separation of the 40:60 (% mol) methanol-water mixture?