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Objectives
Advanced
reactor Upon the completion of this chapter,
technology
students are able to:
State the common arrangement of reactor
Series
& in industry.
parallel
Various
State the importance of the arrangement to
operation the reactor volume.
of reactor Demonstrate the calculation with different
reactor arrangement.
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Reactor in Series Reactor in Series
FAO
X1 X2 • PFR – PFR
1 FA1 FA2
2
CSTR i=1 PFR i=2
X3
• CSTR – CSTR
3
FA3
PFR - PFR
X1 X 0
X1
2
0.7 X 2 X1
X 2
2
∆X2
∆X1
X2
dX X1 dX X 2 dX
v FA 0 FA 0 X0 X MID 1 X1 X MID 2 X2
0 rA 0 rA X1 rA
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PFR - PFR
• By using Simpson’s rule to evaluate the Using the data below X -rA
calculate the reactor 0.0 0.0053
integrals;
volume V1 and V2 for 0.1 0.0052
X1
dX X1 1 4 1 the plug-flow sequence 0.2 0.0050
VPFR ,1 FA0 FA0
Xo rA 3 rA( X0 ) rA( Xmid ) rA( X1) in series when the 0.3 0.0045
intermediate conversion 0.4 0.0040
is 40% and the final 0.5 0.0033
X2
dX X 2 1 4 1
VPFR ,2 FA 0 FA0 conversion is 70%. The 0.6 0.0025
X1 rA 3 rA( X1) rA( Xmid ) rA( X 2 ) entering molar flow rate, 0.7 0.0018
FAo = 0.867 mol/s 0.8 0.00125
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Solution: • For the first reactor,
0.4 dX
V1 FAo
0 rA
X1 1 4 1
FAo
3 rA X 0 0 rA X mid 0.2 rA X1 0.4
0.55 0.7
V2 FA 0 XX12
dX
VT V1 V2 ? dm3
rA
X 2 1 4 1
FAo
3 rA X1 0.4 rA X mid 0.55 rA X 2 0.7
0.7
=
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CSTR - CSTR
FA1
FA2
0.7
X0 X1 X2
3
• In second reactor, the rate of
• For the first reactor in which rate of
disappearance of A, -rA2, is evaluated and
disappearance of A is –rA1 at conversion
the conversion is that of the exit stream of
X1, the volume necessary to achieve the
reactor 2, X2.
conversion X1 is
• The volume necessary to increase the
FA 0 FA1 FAo X1 conversion in reactor 2 from X1 to X2 is
V1
-rA( X1) -rA( X1)
FA1 FA 2 FA 0 ( X 2 X1)
V2
-rA ( X 2 ) - rA( X 2 )
Reactor in Series
Note that for CSTRs in series the rate –rA1 is FA1
evaluated at a conversion of 0.4 and rate FA0 X1
4
FA1
FA0 X1 FA0 X1
X2 X2
FA1
FA2 FA2
REACTOR VOLUME (V1and V2) EQUATIONS REACTOR VOLUME (V1, V2 and V3) EQUATIONS
SCHEME A (PFR-CSTR) SCHEME B (CSTR-PFR)
X1
dX FA0 X 2 X1 FA0X1 X2
dX
V1 FA0 V2 V1 V2 FA0
0 rA(X1) rA(X2 ) rA(X1) X1 rA(X2 )
PFR: • Scheme B:
dX
0.4
FAoX1
V1 FA 0 V1
0 rA • CSTR: rA( X1)
FAo
X1 1
4
1 FAo 0.4
3 rA X 0 0 rA X mid 0.2 rA X1 0.4
V1
rA ( X10.4 )
CSTR: X2
dX
F (0.7 0.4)
V2 A0
• PFR: V2 FA0 X1 rA( X2 )
rA(X 2 0.7)
X 2 1 4 1
V2 FAo r X 0.4 r X 0.55 r X 0.7
3 A 1 A mid A 2
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• Scheme B will give the smaller total reactor
volume for an intermediate conversion of 40%.
• The reaction rate does not depend on • Finally, let’s consider approximating a PFR with a
number of small, equal-volume CSTRs of Vi in series. We
conversion alone. It is also affected by the initial
want to compare the total volume of all the CSTRs with
concentrations of the reactants, the temperature the volume of one plug-flow reactor for the same
and the pressure. conversion (70%).
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