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    CENG 211 Reaction and Reactor Engineering (Fall, 1999)

    Homework 2 (Given on 23 September, Due on 30 September. 10% deduction per


    day delay)
    1. A 400-liter CSTR and a 100-liter PFR are available to process 1.0 liter of feed per
    second. The feed contains 41% A, 41% B and 18% inerts. The irreversible gasphase reaction
    A+ B C
    is to be carried out at 10 atm and 227 0C. The rate of reaction in mole/liter.min is
    given below as a function of conversion:
    X:
    -rA:

    0.0
    0.2

    0.1
    0.0167

    0.4
    0.00488

    0.7
    0.00286

    0.9
    0.00204

    (a) What is the maximum conversion that can be achieved with these two reactors
    connected in series?
    (b) What would be the overall conversion if two 400-liter CSTRs were available
    and connected in series for the same feed and operating conditions?
    (c) What would be the overall conversion if two 400-liter CSTRs were connected
    in parallel with half of the feed going to each reactor?
    (d) What is the volume of a single tubular reactor necessary to achieve 50%
    conversion?
    (Hint: First to find a correlation equation between 1/-rA and x with a tool such as
    MS Excel)
    2. For the irreversible gas-phase reaction
    A 2B
    The following correlation was determined from laboratory data.
    For x 0.5: 10-8/-rA = 3.0
    For x > 0.5: 10-8/-rA = 3.0 + 10(x-0.5)

    m3.s/mole;
    m3.s/mole.

    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% and 80%
    conversion? The initial concentration of A is 0.2 mole/liter.
    (Hint: The reaction volume is not a constant but changes with reaction under a
    constant pressure. First find the relationship between volume (V) and conversion
    (x) by using ideal gas law and mole balance.)

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