Exercise

Exercise

1. The liquid phase reaction: A+BC

Follows an elementary rate law and is carried out isothermally in a flow system.
The concentrations of the A and B feed streams are 2 M before mixing. The
volumetric flow rate of each stream is 5 dm3/min, and the entering temperature
is 300 K. The streams are mixed immediately before entering. Two reactors are
available. One is a 200 dm3 CSTR that can be heated to 77oC or cooled to 0oC,
and the other is an 800 dm3 PFR operated at 300 K that cannot be heated nor
cooled. Note that k = 0.07 dm3/mol.min at 300 K and E = 20 kcal/mol.
What conversion would be obtained if the CSTR and PFR were operated at 300 K
and connected in series?
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2. The liquid phase reaction

A+BC
Follows an elementary rate law and is carried out isothermally in a batch reactor. It
was known that k at 300 K = 0.07 L/mol.min and E = 20 kcal/mol.
a. How long would it take to achieve 90% conversion in a 200 L batch reactor with CA0
= CB0 = 1M at a temperature of 77oC.
b. If the reactor were cooled to 0oC, how long would it take to achieve the same
conversion?
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6. Given a gas phase reaction: A + 2B  2 C

Construct a stoichiometric table for a flow system considering A as the basis
of calculation with equimolar feed of 50% A and 50% B. Derive the
concentration for each species (for an isothermal gas phase reaction, with
no pressure drop).
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7. Consider liquid phase cis-trans isomerization of 2-butene Or we may simplify as A  B

The reaction is first order in A (–rA=kCA) and is carried out in a tubular reactor in which
the volumetric flow rate, v, is constant, i.e., v = v0 .
a. Sketch the concentration profile
b. Derive an equation relating the reactor volume to the entering and exiting
concentrations of A, the rate constant k, and the volumetric flow rate v0
c. Determine the reactor volume, V1, necessary to reduce the exiting concentration
to 10% of the entering concentration (CA = 0.1 CA0), if the volumetric flow rate is
10 L/min and the specific reaction rate, k, is 0.23 min-1.
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8.  Calculate the volume of a CSTR required to perform reaction

as in the previous exercise
 For the same reaction in a batch reactor, calculate the time
required to reduce the moles of A to 10% of its initial value.
What if we want to reduce the moles of A to 1% of its initial
value, how long will it take? Make the concentration profile of
A in the batch reactor.
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10. For the irreversible gas-phase reaction: A  2B

the following correlation was determined from laboratory data (the initial concentration of A is 0.2 g
mol/L and volumetric flow rate is 5 m3/s) : 10−8 𝑚3 . 𝑠
𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑋 ≤ 0.5 ∶ = 3.0
−𝑟𝐴 𝑚𝑜𝑙
10−8 𝑚3 . 𝑠
𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑋 > 0.5 ∶ = 3.0 + 10(𝑋 − 0.5)
−𝑟𝐴 𝑚𝑜𝑙
a) Over what range of conversions are the plug-flow reactor and CSTR volumes identical?
b) What conversion will be achieved in a CSTR that has a volume of 90 L?
c) What plug-flow reactor volume is necessary to achieve 70% conversion?
d) What CSTR reactor volume is required if effluent from the plug-flow reactor in part (c) is fed to a CSTR
to raise the conversion to 90%?
e) If the reaction is carried out in a constant-pressure batch reactor in which pure A is fed to the reactor,
what length of time is necessary to achieve 40 % conversion?
f) Plot the rate of reaction and conversion as a function of PFR volume.
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12. In the laboratory experiment, 500 mL of a 2 M solution (2 kmol/m )

of ethylene oxide (A) in water was mixed with 500 mL of water (B)
containing 0.9 wt % sulfuric acid, which is a catalyst. The
temperature was maintained at 55C. The concentration of
ethylene glycol (C) was recorded as a function of time (Table E5-
1.1).
(a) Derive an equation for the concentration of ethylene glycol as
a function of time.
(b) Rearrange the equation derived in (a) to obtain a linear plot
of a function concentration versus time.
(c) Using the data in Table E5-1.1, determine the specific reaction
rate at 55C.
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13. A small company that is on a tight budget was given a loan of up to $10,000 from a reactor-supplier
company, to purchase reactors which they have in excess. The list of the available reactor and the
Levespiel plot of the reaction A  B + C are given below.

If you were the owner of the

small company,
 which reactors do you choose
& how do you arrange them?
 What is the highest conversion
with your arrangement?
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