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Multiple Reactors Assignment Problems 1 To 3

1) A holdup tank is used to allow radioactive material to decay before being released. Adding a baffle to split the tank in two would lower the exit activity to 1/14 of the feed, compared to the current 1/7. 2) Four mixed flow reactors are used in series to process reactant A. The time needed for a single plug flow reactor to reduce the concentration from 26 to 1 mol/m3 is 2 minutes. 3) A plug flow reactor currently converts 96% of reactants A and B. Putting a mixed flow reactor 10x larger before it could increase production by 4%. The plug flow reactor should come after the mixed flow reactor.

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Multiple Reactors Assignment Problems 1 To 3

1) A holdup tank is used to allow radioactive material to decay before being released. Adding a baffle to split the tank in two would lower the exit activity to 1/14 of the feed, compared to the current 1/7. 2) Four mixed flow reactors are used in series to process reactant A. The time needed for a single plug flow reactor to reduce the concentration from 26 to 1 mol/m3 is 2 minutes. 3) A plug flow reactor currently converts 96% of reactants A and B. Putting a mixed flow reactor 10x larger before it could increase production by 4%. The plug flow reactor should come after the mixed flow reactor.

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Multiple Reactors Assignment Problems 1 to 3

1) Water containing a short-lived radioactive species flows continuously


through a well-mixed holdup tank. This gives time for the radioactive
material to decay into harmless waste. As it now operates, the activity of
the exit stream is 1/7 of the feed stream. This is not bad, but we'd like to
lower it still more.
One of our office secretaries suggests that we insert a baffle down the
middle of the tank so that the holdup tank acts as two well-mixed tanks in
series. Do you think this would help? If not, tell why; if so, calculate the
expected activity of the exit stream compared to the entering stream.

2) Reactant A (A → R, CA0 = 26 mol/m3) passes in steady flow through four


equal-size mixed flow reactors in series (𝜏𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 = 2 min). When steady
state is achieved the concentration of A is found to be 11, 5, 2, 1 mol/m3
in the four units. For this reaction, what must be 𝜏𝑝𝑙𝑢𝑔 so as to reduce CA
from CA0 = 26 to CAf = 1 mol/m3?

3) At present the elementary liquid-phase reaction A + B → R + S takes


place in a plug flow reactor using equimolar quantities of A and B.
Conversion is 96%, CA0 = CB0 = 1 mol/liter. If a mixed flow reactor ten
times as large as the plug flow reactor were hooked up in series with the
existing unit, which unit should come first and by what fraction could
production be increased for that setup?

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