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COIMBATORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, COIMBATORE-641014

(An Autonomous Institution)


DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
19CH51 NUMERICAL METHODS IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Assignment 4

Issue date: 14/11/2024 Due date: 21/11/2024

1. Consider a reaction A → B carried out in a plug flow reactor. The differential equation for
species A along the length of the plug flow reactor of length 10 m is

The initial condition is: at x = 0 (inlet), CA=1 mol/m3.


A fluid medium comprising initially only A flows through the reactor with a mean
axial velocity u = 1 m/s. The rate constant of the reaction is 1 s-1. Determine the concentration
of A along the length of the plug flow reactor of length 10 m .
Use the following methods:
(i) Euler method,
(ii) Runge-Kutta method (Second order and 4th Order)

2. The chemical reaction and diffusion in a spherical catalyst pellet is given by

Where D is the effective binary diffusivity of A within the catalyst pellet . The pellet is
isothermal. The concentration at the surface of the spherical catalyst pellet is 1 mol/m3, thus
the boundary conditions are

The radius of the catalyst pellet is 1.0 cm. Make 10 parts of the radius. Take the rate
constant k=10-3 s-1 and D = 10-9 m2/s. Determine the concentration of species A at various
nodes along the radius of the catalyst pellet.

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