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If The Reactor Is Operated Isothermally at 150°C, How Much

The document provides exercises related to a homogeneous, irreversible liquid phase reaction A→ R occurring in an ideal batch reactor. It includes calculations to determine: 1) The time required to reach 95% conversion of A if operated isothermally at 150°C. 2) The percentage of total heat transferred in each quarter of the reaction time. 3) The heat transfer area needed to keep the reactor isothermal at 150°C using cooling water. 4) Whether the time to reach 95% conversion would be greater, same, or less if operated adiabatically at an initial 150°C.

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If The Reactor Is Operated Isothermally at 150°C, How Much

The document provides exercises related to a homogeneous, irreversible liquid phase reaction A→ R occurring in an ideal batch reactor. It includes calculations to determine: 1) The time required to reach 95% conversion of A if operated isothermally at 150°C. 2) The percentage of total heat transferred in each quarter of the reaction time. 3) The heat transfer area needed to keep the reactor isothermal at 150°C using cooling water. 4) Whether the time to reach 95% conversion would be greater, same, or less if operated adiabatically at an initial 150°C.

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Exercises for the topic

Heterogeneous reactors
Spring 2021

The liquid phase reaction A→ R, is taking place in an ideal batch reactor. The reaction is homogeneous and
irreversible, and the rate equation for the disappearance of A is −𝑟𝐴 = 𝑘 ∗ 𝐶𝐴2
At 150°C, the value of k is 7.60 L/mole-h. The enthalpy change on reaction (∆𝐻𝑅 ) is -37.5 kcal/mole A at
150°C. The initial concentration of A is 0.65 mole/L.

1. If the reactor is operated isothermally at 150°C, how much time is required to achieve a fractional conversion
of A, XA = 0.95?

2. If the reactor is operated isothermally at 150°C, what percentage of the total heat will be transferred in the
first quarter of the total time, i.e., of the time you calculated in Part 1? The second quarter? The third quarter?
The last quarter?

3. The reactor is to be kept isothermal at 150°C over the whole course of the reaction. Cooling water is available
at 30°C at a flow rate of 6000 kg/h. If the reactor volume is 1000L and the overall heat-transfer coefficient is
500 kcal/m2-h-°C, how much heat-transfer area must be installed in the reactor?

4. If the reactor is operated adiabatically and the initial temperature is 150°C, will the time required to achieve
XA = 0.95 be greater, the same, or less than what you calculated in Part 1?

Explain your reasoning.

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The elementary irreversible organic liquid-phase reaction. A+B → C


Is carried out adiabatically in a batch reactor. An equal molar feed in A and B enters at 27 ºC, and the volumetric
flow rate is 2 dm3/s and CA0= 0.1 k mol/m3
Plot the temperature and the concentrations of A, B and C, as a function of time for the following cases:
(a) Adiabatic operation.

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