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This assignment involves performing several simulations and analyses related to reactor design: 1. Simulate four reactor configurations (co-current, countercurrent, constant temperature, adiabatic) and compare results, plotting concentrations and temperatures down the reactor length. 2. Determine the size and heating coil area needed for a continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) producing a reaction at a given rate, temperature, and kinetics. 3. Simulate vapor-liquid equilibrium of a 2-propanol/water mixture using Margules equation to determine activity coefficients at different temperatures and pressures. 4. Derive mole and energy balance equations for plug flow and continuous stirred-tank reactors. 5. Derive

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Lab Assignment 4

This assignment involves performing several simulations and analyses related to reactor design: 1. Simulate four reactor configurations (co-current, countercurrent, constant temperature, adiabatic) and compare results, plotting concentrations and temperatures down the reactor length. 2. Determine the size and heating coil area needed for a continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) producing a reaction at a given rate, temperature, and kinetics. 3. Simulate vapor-liquid equilibrium of a 2-propanol/water mixture using Margules equation to determine activity coefficients at different temperatures and pressures. 4. Derive mole and energy balance equations for plug flow and continuous stirred-tank reactors. 5. Derive

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Computer Aided Process Design and Simulation Laboratory IV (5%)

This assignment should be done individually and submitted on December 10


1. When plant engineer Maxwell Anthony looked up the vapor pressure at the exit to
the adiabatic reactor in Example 11-3 ( fogler) , where the temperature is 360 K, he learned the vapor
pressure was about 1.5 MPa for isobutene, which is greater than the rupture pressure of the glass vessel the
company had hoped to use. Fortunately, when Max looked in the storage shed, he found there was a bank
of 10 tubular reactors, each of which was 5 m3. The bank reactors were double-pipe heat exchangers with
the reactants flowing in the inner pipe and with Ua = 5,000 kJ/m3·h·K. Max also bought some
thermodynamic data from one of the companies he found on thenternet that did Colorimeter experiments to
find HRx for various reactions. One of the companies had the value of HRx for his reaction on sale this
week for the low, low price of $25,000.00. For this value of ΔHRx the company said it is best to use an
initial concentration of A of 1.86 mol/dm3. The entering temperature of the reactants is 305 K and the
entering coolant temperature is 315 K. The mass flow rate of the coolant, , is 500 kg/h and the heat capacity
of the coolant, , is 28 kJ/kg·K. The temperature in any one of the reactors cannot rise above 325 K. Carry
out the following analyses with the newly purchased values from the Internet:
a) Co-current heat exchange: Plot X, Xe, T, Ta, and –rA, down the length of the
reactor.
b) Countercurrent heat exchange: Plot X, Xe, T, Ta, and –rA down the length of
the reactor.
c) Constant ambient temperature, Ta: Plot X, Xe, T, and –rA down the length of
the reactor.
d) Adiabatic operation: Plot X, Xe, T, Ta, and –rA, down the length of the
reactor.
e) Compare parts (a) through (d) above and write a paragraph describing what
you find.
Additional information
Recall from Example 11-3 that Cpa = 141 kJ/mol.K, Cpo = 159 kJ/kmol.K,
and data from the company Maxwell got off the Internet are HRx = -34,500 kJ/kmol
with CPA 0 and CA0 1.86 kmol/m3

2. An endothermic reaction RP is performed in continuously stirred tank reactor. A 95% of A is required
and the desired production rate is 0.95x10 -3 kmol/sec of R. The reactor operates at 50 oC and the value of
rate constant is 4x10-3 sec-1 . The concentration of R in the feed is 1 kmol/m 3 and the feed is available at 75
o
C. The contents of the reactor is heated by a steam condensing at 100 oC inside the coils. The overall heat
transfer coefficient for the heat-exchange system is 1,500 J/m2.soC, and the heat of the reaction is 1.5x 10 8
J/kmol of R reacted.
Determine of the size of the tanks in the reactor system and the area of the heating coil in the tank Given:
MWR = 100 kg/kmol, Cp = 4000 J/kg oC, liquid density = 1000 kg/m3

3. Imagine mixing a liquid 2-propanol and water together in an initially empty container. At equilibrium,
some of the liquid from both species will evaporate into the vapor phase and some will be left in the liquid
phase for certain temperature. Determine the vapor liquid equilibrium for the mixture using Margules
equation for activity coefficient determination. Select the total pressure on your own and make sure it is
different from what your classmates have assumed.
Get the required data from the internet and solve the problem in excel, MATLAB and Aspen
4. Derive the mole balance and energy balance equation for designing PFR and CIST reactor.
5. Derive Raoult’s Law (for ideal and non_ideal mixtures).

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