REACTOR DESIGN PROJECT

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An Undergraduate Reactor Design Project

Presented to the Faculty and Staff of the
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
College of Engineering
University of the Philippine Diliman
Quezon City, Philippines 1101

Submitted in Partial Fulfillment

Of the Requirements for the Course
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 125
Chemical Engineering Reactor Design I
2nd Semester AY 2016 2017

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Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering

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LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

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XX May 2017

ALDREN A. RIBALDE
ChE 125 Instructor
Department of Chemical Engineering

Dear Sir Ribalde,

In compliance with the fulfillment if the requirements in ChE 125 Chemical

Reactor Design I, the proponents would like to present the reactor design project
entitled STATE THE TITLE OF YOUR DESIGN PROJECT.

This report presents blablah. You can expound this part or change the whole
paragraph. The letter of transmittal indicates why this report has to be prepared.
Also included in this letter are the essential results that have been specifically
requested.

We hope blahblah or thank you

Sincerely,

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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WALWAL.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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 Letter of
Introduction. i
Acknowledgement.................................
...ii
Table of
Contents.....................................iii
List of
Tables...........................................iv
List of
Figures..........................................v
Executive
Summary....vi

I. INTRODUCTION
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A. Background
B. Problem Description
C. Design Basis

II. DESIGN METHODOLOGY

III. DESIGN SUMMARY

IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

REFERENCES
NOTATION AND NOMENCLATURE
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B (if you have any)
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 LIST OF TABLES

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 LIST OF FIGURES

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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 This is the abstract of the reactor design project. Its purpose is to give the
reader the entire contents of the report in just one page. So be concise. State the
general and specific objectives of the design project, the results of the reactor
design. The executive summary should only be less than 300 words.

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 I. INTRODUCTION

A. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

What product are you going to produce or what species are you going to treat?
Write down all the relevant chemical reactions you will be using.

Is there a current demand for this product in the world/country or what is the
current production rate?

What is the current available supply of your feed?

What is the significance/application of your product/proposed process in the

industry or society?

B. PROBLEM DESCRIPTION

Indicate your design objective. What is the end goal for this study?

What do you plan to achieve at the end of this study?

Include all necessary data to solve the problem

C. DESIGN BASIS

What is your operating capacity? You can get it from the market study of your
product.

What variables do you plan to keep constant?

What are the limitations of your system?

What assumptions do you have to make? Justify your assumptions.

State ALL data (thermo-physical properties of the reactants and products, heats
of reaction, material properties, etc) that you are going to use such as, and cite
ALL your sources

What is the composition of the feed?

What are your operating parameters?

 II. DESIGN METHODOLOGY

A. Sources of Data
a. Finding Cp=f (T ) data

In finding the data for the heat capacities of our compounds, the
researchers used the information taken from the Design Institute for Physical
Properties (DIPPR) by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) as is
shown in the table that follows. The heat capacity expression is given by the
following equation:

J
Cp ( kmolK )
=C 1+C 2T +C 3 T 2+C 4 T 3 +C 4 T 4

(n)

where C1, C2, C3, and C4 are the heat capacity parameters and T is the temperature in
Kelvin.

Table 2.1. Heat capacity parameters of the working compounds

COMPOUND C1 C2 C3 C4 C5

Formaldehyde 61900 28.3 - - -

1-hexene 16464 -200.37 0.8784 - -

0

1,4-dioxane 95686 -5559.9 9.6124 - -

0

Heptanal 22236 -105.17 0.65074 - -

0

Water (liquid) 27637 -2090.1 8.125 -1.41E- 9.37E-

0 02 06

Information of the heat capacity of 2-methylhexanal was scarce and the

researchers found no available data from journals and books. The Method of
Ruzicka and Domalski (1993) was then used to find the heat capacity expression
of 2-methylhexanal. According to Poling et al in Properties of Liquids and Gases
(5th ed), the Method of Ruzicka and Domalski is a group contribution method that
can be used to develop heat capacity expressions and calculate liquid heat
capacities from the melting point to the boiling point. The method can be
expressed by:
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2
J T T
C pL ( )=R A+ B +D
molK 100 100

(n)

where R is the gas constant and T is the temperature in Kelvin. Parameters A, B,

and D are obtained from:
k k k
A= ni ai B= ni ai D= n i d i (n)
i=1 i=1 i=1

where ni is the number of groups of type i , k is the total number of

different kinds of groups, and the parameters ai , bi , and di are listed in

the table of the book (DI KO ALAM IF IA-APPENDIX PA BA YUNG TABLE???)

Figure 2.1 The structure of 2-methylhexanal

Since the working temperature of this experiment is less than the boiling
point of 2-methylhexanal which is 101.1C (or 374.25 K), the method of Ruzicka
and Domalski can be used. As can be seen in Figure 2.1, 2-methylhexanal
contains two groups of CH3-C, three groups of CH2-C, and two groups each of CH-
(2C, CO) and CO(H)-C. Using the given values of the table in the book Properties
of Gases and Liquids (5th edition) and equations N to N, the A , B , and

D parameters of the heat capacity of 2-methylhexanal are obtained as shown

in the succeeding table.
Table 2.2. The heat capacity parameters of 2-methylhexanal obtained using the Method
of
GROUPS ni ai bi di

CH3-C 2 3.8452 -0.33997 0.19489

CH2-(2C) 3 2.7972 -0.05497 0.10679
CH-(2C,CO) 1 3.9238 -2.121 0.49646
CO(H)-C 1 -3.826 7.6719 -1.2711
A=16.1787 B=4.706059 D=0.06449
Ruzicka and Domalski.
 b. Finding the H rxn=f (T )

The formula for the H rxn is given by the expression:

H rxn= H 0+ RMDCPH(TT 0 ) (n)

where R is the gas constant, H0 is the heat of reaction at the

reference temperature T0 , T is the final temperature in Kelvins, and

MDCPH accounts for the sensible heat effect from T0 to T .

From the journal article in which the researchers based the design project,
H0 was given to be 19.5 kcal/mol at the T0 which was at 298.15 K. The

sensible heat effect term, MDCPH , is given by the expression:

B C 2
MDCPH= A + T 0( +1 ) + T 0( 2+ +1) (n)
2 3

T
where by definition, and
T0

AP1 A .7
A
2.7
+ AP2 ( )
2.7
A a Ab (n)

with analogous definitions for B and D. The reason for the multiplier in
the first and second term of equation (n) is the linear-to-branched ration of 1.7
of the two products. The succeeding table summarizes the parameters used for
MDCPH.
Table 2.3. The parameters for evaluating MDCPH.

SPECIES A B C
formaldehyde (A) 7.445 3.40E-03 0
hexene (B) 19.803 -2.41E-02 1.06E-04
2-methylhexanal (P1) 16.1798 0.04706059 -6.45E-06
heptanal (P2) 26.7452 -1.27E-02 7.83E-05
1,4-dioxane (S) 115.09 -0.66826 1.16E-03
delta () -4.415911111 3.0161E-2 -5.8707E-5

B. Comparing the Two Reactor Types

 Show your entire analysis

Describe the step by step procedure you used in order to design your
reactor system

Show all necessary plots and figures

- Do not just snip the figure or table. If you need to re-create it in

MS Excel, do it.
- Graphs and tables should be properly labeled. If you are going to
print your paper in black and white, use markers on your
graph to differentiate each curves
- Remove the gridlines of your graph

Always answer/state how and why did you come to each and every
decision and state all your basis

- Sample:
Table 2.1. Kapag table, nasa taas ang title; kapag figure, nasa baba naman.
The title should be in sentence case.
PARAMETERS UNITS STREAM 1 STREAM 2 STREAM 3 STREAM 4
Mass flow rate
Mole/Mass
fraction
Component 1
Component 2
Temperature
Pressure
Heat capacity
and so on and
so forth

- If you are going to write an equation, DO NOT SNIP AND PASTE.

WRITE THE EQUATION USING THE EQUATION TOOL OF MS WORD.
The equation should be written in the center. The equation number
should be aligned to the right.

(1) PV =nRT

III. DESIGN SUMMARY

ASSESSMENT OF THE DESIGN. EXPLAIN THE RESULTS OBTAINED.

Conclusion on the best design for the system with reactor dimensions and
specifications.

Optional: costing and equipment design (power requirement, mechanical design,

etc.)

IV. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

(You know what to do here).

So basically in general, use the following:

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MINOR HEADING

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REFERENCES

Use APA style for citation. Do not cite the slides that I gave you.

A. BOOKS

Calfee, R. C., & Valencia, R. R. (1991). APA guide to preparing manuscripts for
journal publication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
B. JOURNALS/ THESES/ PROCEEDINGS

C. INTERNET SOURCES

NOTATION AND NOMENCLATURE

SI units are given first (followed by English and/or cgs units)

A cross sectional area, m2 (ft2)

A absorption factor = L/mV, dimensionless
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Greek Letters

viscosity, kg/m s (Cp)

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Note: All notations and symbols that you used in the design project should reflect
here. The usage of your notation and symbols should be described/ stated in this
section. What is C in your DP, is not the C in others.

APPENDIX

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