Pure reactant A flows into the tubular reactor (PFR) at a rate of 50 dm3/min as a liquid to produce the desired product, B. And the intermediate product B is competitively converted to the unwanted products X and Y simultaneously. Each reaction is a primary reaction, and the reaction rate constants are k1=0.2min-1, k2=0.3min-1, and k3=0.1min-1. Answer the following questions.
(1) Find product B as a function of residence time (τ)
(2) What is the size of the reactor for obtaining the maximum amount of product B?
Pure reactant A flows into the tubular reactor (PFR) at a rate of 50 dm3/min as...
QUESTION 6: 15 marks 15 points A pulse tracer experiment was conducted in a tubular reactor and RTD function E(t) was calculated and tabulated belowin Table 1. An irreversible, aqueous-phase, elementary reaction, 2AB+C, with k = 0.5 L.mol-1 min -1 at 320K will be carried out isothermally at 320K in this reactor, whose mean residence time was found to be 15 min from RTD studies. The feed concentration of A is 2mol/dm3. Determine the conversion that can be attained in...
The reaction A ------> B (1) with rate constant, k1= 0.5 min-1 at 400 K is to be carried out in an isothermal PFR. However, a second reaction A ----> C (2) with rate constant, k2= 0.1 min-1at 400 K occurs concurrently with reaction (1). The concentration of Ain the feed is CA0= 2 mol dm-3 and the volumetric flow rate of the feed is v0= 4 dm3min-1. (a) Determine the mean residence time, t and the reactor volume, V...