LAB 5: ADIABATIC PRODUCTION OF ACETIC ANHYDRIDE Objectives: To install and converge a plug flow reactor 2.

To simulate a process involving reaction

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Process: One of the routes to produce acetic anhydride is by the vapour phase cracking of acetone to produce ketene and methane: CH3COCH3 CH2CO+ CH4 This reaction is first order reaction with respect to acetone. The feed condition is 8000 kg/hr of acetone to tabular reactor. The reactor is adiabatic, with inlet T is 1035 K and the pressure is 1.6 atm. Hint:
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Use SYSOPO of state fluid package.(SI unit) Reactor : ADIABATIC Length: Assume 3 m Diameter: Assume 1 m Reaction type LHHW Kinetic : Vapour, k: 1.125, To 1000 K, E = 67999 cal/mol Driving force : Term 1 Reactant: acetone exponent to 1 Products: ketene and methane exponent to 0 Driving force : Term 2 All exponents and constant B, C, D = 0 Constant A = -1000000 There length, diameter, number of tubes can be change to achieve specific goal.

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What volume required for at least 20 % conversion?