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1. The document describes three chemical reactor problems involving catalytic cracking reactions. 2. The first problem involves a fluidized bed CSTR reactor where catalyst decay and reactant concentration are modeled as first-order processes. The task is to determine reactant concentration, activity, and conversion over time. 3. The second problem involves a moving bed reactor where a gas oil cracking reaction follows a second-order rate law and catalyst decay follows first-order. The task is to determine the conversion achieved. 4. The third problem involves a straight-through transport reactor where gas oil cracking to products B and C follows a complex rate law and catalyst decay is first-order. The task is to plot activity and conversion up

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Assignment I

1. The document describes three chemical reactor problems involving catalytic cracking reactions. 2. The first problem involves a fluidized bed CSTR reactor where catalyst decay and reactant concentration are modeled as first-order processes. The task is to determine reactant concentration, activity, and conversion over time. 3. The second problem involves a moving bed reactor where a gas oil cracking reaction follows a second-order rate law and catalyst decay follows first-order. The task is to determine the conversion achieved. 4. The third problem involves a straight-through transport reactor where gas oil cracking to products B and C follows a complex rate law and catalyst decay is first-order. The task is to plot activity and conversion up

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Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT (BHU)

Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design (CHE504)


Assignment I
1) Catalyst Decay in a Fluidized Bed Modeled us u CSTR
The gas-phase cracking reaction A + B→ C is carried out in a fluidized CSTR reactor. The
feed stream contains 80 % crude (A) and 20 % inert I. The crude oil contains sulfur compounds
that poison the catalyst. As a first approximation, we will assume that the cracking reaction is
first-order in the crude oil concentration. The rate of catalyst decay is first-order in the present
activity and first-order in the reactant concentration. Assuming that the bed can be modeled as
a well-mixed CSTR, determine the reactant concentration, activity, and conversion as a
function of time. The volumetric feed rate to the reactor is 5000 m 3/h. There are 50,000 kg of
catalyst in the reactor, and the bulk density is 500 kg/m 3.
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2) Catalytic Cracking in a Moving-Bed Reactor


The catalytic cracking of a gas oil charge, A, to form C5+ (B) and to form coke and dry gas
(C) is to be carried out in a screw-type conveyor moving-bed reactor at 900°F:

This reaction can also be written as A→ products. While pure hydrocarbons are known to crack
according to a first-order rate law. The fact that the gas oil exhibits a wide spectrum of cracking
rates gives rise to the fact that the lumped cracking rate is well represented by a second-order
rate law with the following specific reaction rate:

The catalytic deactivation is independent of gas-phase concentration and follows a first-order


decay rate law, with a decay constant of 0.72 reciprocal minutes. The feed stream is diluted
with nitrogen so that as a first approximation, volume changes can be neglected with reaction.
The reactor contains 22 kg of catalyst that moves through the reactor at a rate of 10 kg/min.
The gas oil is fed at a rate of 30 mol/min at a concentration of 0.075 mol/dm3. Determine the
conversion that can be achieved in this reactor.
3) Decay in a Straight-Through Transport Reactor
The vapor-phase cracking of a gas oil is to be carried out in a straight-through transport reactor
(STTR) that is 10 m high and 1.5 m in diameter. Gas oil is a mixture of normal and branched
paraffins (C12-C40), naphthenes, and aromatics, all of which will be lumped as a single
species, A. We shall lump the primary hydrocarbon products according to distillate temperature
into two respective groups, dry gas (C1-C4) B and gasoline (C5-C14) C. The reaction
can be written symbolically as A→B + C + coke. Both B and
C are adsorbed on the surface. The rate law for a gas-oil cracking reaction on fresh catalyst can
be approximated by

with k' = 0.0014 kmol/kg cat. s. atm, KA = 0.05 atm-1, KB = 0.15 atm-1, and Kc = 0.1 atm-1. The
catalyst decays by the deposition of coke, which is produced in most cracking reactions along
with the reaction products. The decay law is

Pure gas-oil enters at a pressure of 12 atm and a temperature of 400°C. The bulk density of
catalyst in the STTR is 80 kg cat/m3. Plot the activity and conversion of gas oil up the reactor
for entering gas velocity Uo = 2.5 m/s.

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